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Transparency in Tithing: Based on your observation, does your church's leader accept more than ten percent of the tithes of your church? Does at least ten percent of your church's tithes in terms of time, money, or  resources go toward the upliftment of your immediate community as opposed to proselytizing? If your church had to give a public accounting, could it meet these minimal guidelines, supposedly as God's representatives? Please, submit your thoughts on tithing and the "messiah's mission".

The Rigidity of Religiosity: Does the continuum of religiosity perpetuate economic injustice around the world with the promoters of the hypothetical extrapolations being the only earthly beneficiaries at the expense of those who succumb to the quantum of religious regimentation?

The Hypocrisy of Religiosity: Does it pose a hindrance to the evolution of an advanced, modern, civil society via ancient anachronisms?

Religiosity...A Product of the Divine or the Dollar? Secular corporations doing business with feet of clay.

Religiosity...Cultural Traditions Steeped in Ancient Superstition: Could this be the obstacle to mankind's attempts toward a safer and healthier global civilization?

Religiosity...Mankind's Ultimate Deception?    Has only produced disagreement, violent discord, death, and destruction. Does this archaic belief system have the stamp of divine approval in any sector of the globe?

Religiosity...A combination of ritual paganisms, arcane schisms, and stone-age cultisms:  All designed to prevent mankind from achieving the path of peace, progress, and prosperity.  I don't believe the plea of "forgive them for they know not what they do" will apply this time around; for mankind has had ample time to access the path.

Religiosity...Mankind's spiritual deviancy: Preys on the vast majority of humanity with emotional fear and deception to the material benefit of the very few predators promoting the superstitious lunacy.

Religiosity...Divisiveness, Strife, Ignorance, Fanaticism, Terrorism, War, Suffering and  Death: Mankind's salvation or ultimate desolation?

Religiosity...Places of worship that are no more than commercial entities: From "in God we trust" to "in gods we secularly prey".

Religiosity...From ancient witch doctors, to cultists, to soothsayers, to faith healers, to the modern day confidence artists...your weekend pulpiteers: "In the name of a god they prey."

Religiosity...The bearer of cultural alienation and human animosity: Beliefs that produce the bellicose and belligerent with the ulterior goal of a man setting himself up as a god to be worshipped...a historic and proven formula for the fall of nations, societies, and civilizations.

The Spawns of Religiosity

There's a movie that's hit the circuit that's the brainstorm of the pulp fiction developer, Tarantino, entitled "Inglorious Bastards". From what I gather from the trailer it shows a group of Americans who enter the NAZI territory with the expressed intention to identify, isolate, and terminate Hitler's demons. Of course, as to how much of this is based on fact is the interest in his pulp fiction plots. The audience has to be the judge of the quality and content; however, it whets historical curiosity.

It is a notable fact that civilization has long been under siege by religious fanatics and what they have in common is that they claim to be doing God's handiwork, the NAZI's notwithstanding. In America, it began with the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, in the late 1800's and existing in various forms today, egged on by right wing radio talk shows. The one incident that comes to mind in my former hometown of Mobile, Alabama is when the justice system took aim in destroying these demon spawns after they murdered a black man and hung him from a tree by identifying, isolating, and decimating them financially as well as those associated with them in Alabama. This "inglorious bastards" tact under the law may have to be applied again in dealing with the reality of the rise of the modern day domestic kooks in America.

The world is likewise under siege by the terrorism of the demonic Islamic fanatics with the sole purpose of inducing fear and intimidation for their own insane power grab. The modus operandi is the same, cowards that use their insane followers to maim and kill the defenseless, notably children, women, and the elderly...the unsuspecting that can't get out of the way. Again, carrying out God's handiwork?  This Islamic global terrorism is not the battle of the western civilization alone and certainly not just America, but it is an assault on humanity which is God's handiwork. Instead of bombing Federal facilities as done in America or instructing people to carryout suicide missions, why not teach them to become doctors, to build schools, hospitals,  to develop modern techniques to combat hunger, poverty, disease? The reason is that they are more inclined to continue as the cowardly spawns of hell. It is time for all good Muslims around the world to apply the tactics of the "Inglorious Bastards" in your own mosques to thwart the satans bred in your neighborhoods and get about the true mission of the Prophet.

The Results of Religiosity

The recent incident on one of our nation's military bases, of which the suspect accused of the horrible massacre, cried out before the tragedy,  "God is Great" shows the insanity of religiosity out of control. Can any true believer in the Universal Spirit of God believe that this Eternal Power wills the destruction of such human spirit? When belief in God becomes the victim of religiosity's creed...it provokes hell on earth for the temporal.

Making Something Out of Nothing

The Drudge Report features a photo of President Obama bowing before the Emperor of Japan, with an attempt to stir criticism from the right-wing, religious fanatics as this is some form of American adoration of our once notorious enemy in the Pacific Theatre. Hey, moron...you are failing again to perceive the depth of this man who's the leader of America and the free western world. For lack of better words, you could say that Japan and China are holding our economic destiny in their hands, but they still respect that we are a nation with a power to alter the future of said world. The difference is that we have to tread with a nuance of greater humility and ancient Asian wisdom knows not to take humility for weakness. This is far different than the right wing lap dogs bowing at the altars of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. This is of the highest order of gross idolatry, for they offer this country and its destiny nothing but "cheap, self-aggrandizing lip service" with people like Matt Drudge as no more than a two-bit pimp. Have you no shame?

Self-Serving Religionists

America...besieged by the religionists of the extreme...Louis Farrakhan from the black left and Glenn Beck from the white right. Mr. Farrakhan claims to be carrying out the message of Mr. Elijah Muhammad when in fact Mr. Muhammad stated that there would be no messengers succeeding him; consequently, Louis Farrakhan is self-appointed like so many Christian ministers that claim to be Prophets of God. People have been duly warned about prophets promoting the false creeds of religiosity...which render only human destruction. Glenn Beck has now taken on the mantle of being a representative promoting his white Christian cultural movement in America, possibly putting this nation's society in conflict. There is no white majority like there is no pure Aryan race. What these extremists  both black and white have to realize is that this nation has gone far beyond these trivial codes of existence. This nation has and still is emerging as a strong society with a humbling and abiding belief in God that cannot and will never again be limited by what we refer to as ethnicity or religiosity... although as hard and as desperately as the extremists attempt to be worshipped as "gods"...such as that one tin god...Rush Limbaugh.