1. People are ready to pounce on Islam at the drop of a hat – Islam like any other religion deserves consideration without prejudice! 9-11 was not Islam’s fault, for all we know it could have been Bush’s doing! (and wait before you go bash-bash, i am not a Muslim)

2. Some think religion Christianity is the best thing to happen to native people because it stopped human sacrifice! how? by leaving no one alive to be sacrificed?( Thou too, JFrater?) Beware someday we will have our civilization be looked upon as killers – we have our wars and capital punishments to count as modern ‘sacrifices’ for a better society.

3.Despite all the hatred too some sense somehow prevails every now and then!

So following THIS mindset – we were just simply helping out the poor ignorant-to-the-Important-things-in-life American Indians – mere children who should have been – and were so Very Grateful for “our help” – Certainly their Gratitude would have been Just As It Were with the black-folk . Just w/o the Big Ole Fun Boat Rides I s ‘pose.

I can almost hear those American Indians now.. dancing and singing as we shot and killed buffalo number 10 million. Woo-Wee! We must have given ‘em quite the reason for glee that night. “How Happy they must have been!!” – Oh.. and remember WHY we killed all of of them Buffaloes? Was it for our own clothes or tools or food? We wouldn’t have killed almost every single one just because – Oh yes I recall… we did it so THEY couldn’t have them. We brought a whole species to near extinction for the one single purpose of Starving and freezing out These Should-Be-Grateful Indians. Tom was exactly right! They used that animal to make their Tents in which they slept in, to make the clothes they wore and all of their tools weapons blankets – Every Single Part of the Buffalo was used for Everything they needed. So to Make Sure they had NO choice but to leave their Ancestry Lands – and go live in teeny tiny reservations – Where “WE” generous Americans gave them (gave?) blankets full of Smallpox.. small amounts of food and you just Know they were re-placed right next to plenty of fresh running water.

As one-time Europeans.. to ‘us’.. Civilization Meant THINGS – Lots and lots of Better Things. Hasn’t changed all that much if you really think about it. We had several re-location walks in which we basically walked them on and on and on until Finally they were courteous enough to just drop to the ground and die. And one of my favorites that is rarely if ever spoken about – Is the fact that after we found out This Land was NOT India.. We STILL called All of The People We Found Living Here – Indians! Guess it’s just better to do things the easy way. And since as a whole.. This was People who said what they meant and meant what they said. So ‘we’ Americans were able to Make These Huge Beautiful Promises.. in which we’d just return later – mostly at night or before sunrise – Terrors Strikes Harder in the Dark don’t you think Tom? And not being racist we’d murder them – Rape them, boys, girls, woman men – whomever – and when we left we’d just burn whatever and whomever was left behind. See we didn’t leave a lot of trash around back then.. not like today.

This was a Proud, Noble, self-sustaining People. They didn’t worship Gold but Life. AND even if – EVEN IF Tom C, Our Main Objective was to Educate them.. THAT we did. We educated them on how to never Trust a White Man. The Slaves I think picked up on that a little bit sooner than them, but they were FROM HERE! We didn’t Bring them here – We Came here and TOOK Everything FROM Them.. Leaving them with nothing – And the ONLY thing we really ever did share with these people.. were the deadly diseases and our considerable murderous Lies.

Oh yes Mr. Tom C. Why oh Why were they not more grateful.

I am blown away by the fact that we let 2,000 year old dead humans, not gods, dictate our lives.

Humanity sits on the precipice, we sit on the edge of controlling our species own destiny yet barely dip our toes in the water through fear and our own mental weakness.

I say cast of the chains of our violent, shameful and oppressive ancestors. I hope our race can evolve and grown into something more meaningful. I hope we can shake off our outdated beliefs and live without fear as we gain an understanding of the true nature of reality.

These texts may give a great basis for living a wholesome life (If you ignore the blatant *****ual violence and outdated cultural xenophobia which permeates them), but they do nothing to help explain how or why we are here, and where indeed we are heading.

The Quran, the bible…. humanities documentation of its own inability to work things out for itself. A record of interfaith violence and intercultural hatred masquerading as “The good life for dummies”.

I can think of nothing more depressing than the two thousand year old hijacking of human intellect. Its humanities biggest crime and im embarassed by it.

1. With all the different kinds of religion about, logic shows that they can not all be right.

2. If faith is needed, then logically there can not be real proof which in turn could be considered as a form of brain-washing.

3. Could be viewed as a sort of ‘comfort blanket’.

Harsh stuff I know, and will be dismissed by all on this site immedately, but yust read the comments on the first page, I can understand why there are Atheists.

I still stand open-minded as before and will no doubt swing slightly ‘to and fro’ with time. At the end of the day, I feel what ever we believe in, the real truth is not going to change just to suit the individual’s needs.

May I wish everyone a peaceful life, who knows, it just maybe the only one.

Cheers