Politics and religion are considered bad subjects to discuss in polite society, because people get so passionate about them both.

Politics is all about opinions, power and greed, and politicians are the biggest liars on Earth. Funny thing, but that’s exactly what religions are all about too and the priests and ministers lie just as much. In politics, people believe that one way of doing things is better because people they voted for as their leaders tell them so.  In religions, it’s exactly the same.

Very few people study politics and politicians, and they know almost nothing about the subject. What they do is pick someone who tells them things they want to hear and fervently believe from then on that this person or these people are absolutely right and all the others are wrong and should be voted out of office.

It’s the same with religions. Once indoctrinated into one particular religion, all others become Wrong and Bad and Doomed To Hell, and whatever the priests or pastors say is true, must be true.

People are mentally lazy and mostly very stupid. Even intelligent people are really stupid when it comes to politics and religions. Perhaps one in every 10,000 will actually stop and think for theirselves. All the rest folllow blindly like sheep.

It’s a funny thing about truth. It’s the truth that makes us angry. Let’s say little Susie has small feet and pimples on her face. A kid yells, “Ha ha, Susie Bigfeet”, and Susie just laughs. But if the kid yells “Susie pimpleface”, Susie gets mad and cries.

An insult doesn’t anger unless there’s truth in it. Lies don’t upset us nearly as much as truth that we don’t want to hear. So when I point out that politics is a load of crap, people get mad. The same as when I point out that all religion is falsehood, manipulation and myth. It’s true. Everyone knows in their heart that it’s true, and they get mad.

I say everyone knows in their heart, because they do. We are all born knowing truth, being able to distinguish right from wrong. It’s part of being born a human being. What perverts that natural born ability is what adults teach us. Growing up, we see adults lie and cheat, sneak and steal, use drugs, abuse themselves and others, make poor decisions, and those are our teachers, those are the people we learn how to act and think from. We learn to value our opinions above not just the opinions of others but above the truth itself. When truth and teachings conflict, we follow the teachings because all children trust adults to lead them.

This is why we believe in politics and politicians, religions and priests. Not because we’ve found the right path that leads to enlightenment, but because we were misled literally from birth. Muslims are murderous and raise their children to be murderous, in a murderous faith, and these kids grow up looking upon Christians and Jews as people undeserving of any decency or respect. Christians and Jews grow up believing that they have the One True Path as well. Religion is a disease that’s passed from one generation to the next, and political beliefs are exactly the same.

Both politics and religion are nothing but confused jumbles of opinion. As the Buddha himself once said, “Beware the thicket of opinion”. So of course, after his death, the opinion that he was some sort of divine, supernatural being grew and became the religion of Buddhism. With priests and all.

“Military faces shortage of Catholic chaplains” reads this article in Fox News online.

It seems that there’s about half as many Catholic chaplains as there were ten years ago. It shouldn’t be hard to figure out why. Most of the priests are homosexual child molesters and they’ve been abandoning what is no longer the safe haven of the Catholic Church before they get arrested and sent to prison.

Straight men aren’t becoming new priests because they don’t want to be associated with a bunch of pedophiles, and many more have turned away from the church because of it’s harboring and hiding child molesters for literally centuries. The Catholic Church has come to be negatively viewed by many as somewhere between untrustworthy to downright evil.

It is downright evil. The fat priesthood lives off the tithings of the poor. It has accumulated massive wealth from being willed the estates of millions of people over the past 1700 years, and owns real estate all over the world, most of which has always been tax exempt. The Vatican holds title to vast tracts of land, to oil companies, to banks, to hoards of gold and jewels and priceless art. It’s practices are a travesty of the teachings of Jesus, they’re so far away from the principles he taught.

Jesus taught generosity, poverty and giving, and the protection of children. The Catholic Church hoards greedily, the fat priests decorate themselves in fine robes and wear gold and jewels, and sexually violate little children. Jesus said to “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesars”. To stay out of politics. The Catholic Church immerses itself in the politics of every nation it’s established a following in, and tries to influence and control what the politicians do. 

The fat priesthood does it’s very best to dominate the sex lives of believers, refusing them birth control in order to keep the babies coming, the new believers who will grow up feeding the fat priests. The priests tell them what they can eat and when, and has them practicing rites and rituals from birth to groom their little minds into conforming and obeying. The fat priests fill them with guilt and fear of “sinning”, and then free them of their guilt if they confess their “sins”. What a wonderful way to control them all, isn’t it? At the same time, the fat priests get to find out the intimate details of their victims personal lives, all the better to control them.

Islam is very much the same as Catholicism, except it’s openly pedophilic and still very violent. The Catholics gave up on fomenting wars centuries ago but the Muslims fight on. The Muslim priests still cut off hands, feet and heads, they still stone people to death, they still persecute women and treat them worse than food animals. They still torture and murder people for any breach of their religion, something the Catholics also quit doing a long time back.

Someday, perhaps, humanity will dump both these vile afflictions into the garbage pile of history where they belong, but if we succeed in destroying ourselves instead, it won’t be because of politics, it wll be over religious differences. It will be the doing of the priests.