"WONDERFUL EVENTS THAT TESTIFY TO GOD'S DIVINE GLORY"

Karla you may not remember me but you commented on my Blog last year and I never got around to replying to you. I have a lot of your posts and am truly amazed at how you can take a book that is acually many books in one and believe what has been written almost 2000 years ago by mere old men that, if you really take a look at HISTORY they wanted control over there people and religion was the best way to accomplish this. It was FEAR that they instilled in the minds of people to gain this control. You don't have to believe me and I am not going to say that you are going to hell for not believing what is just plain fact. Scientifically proven fact on our history. The BIBLE or as you would put it “word of God” has absolutely no factual proof that any of the stories ever happened. None. I do not blame you or condemn you for what you believe because it is very easy to get sucked up in the vacuum of religion if your family believe and their families believe and so on. I too was a believer because of my parents. However, I will say that religion is a prison and all the people that believe this nonsense are the prisoners. If you want to honestly look at and talk about historical fact then you would benefit from reading “The Christ Conspiracy. The Greatest Story Ever Sold”. The story of Jesus is a plagiarized idea to gain control of people. Here are some real facts on the worlds history from my blog.

The Bibles authenticity is at best very disturbing to me. The bible has been changed, edited and messed with since it was written which was somewhere between 2 and 4 hundred years after everything had supposedly happened. The only history we have of this man called Jesus is the Bible. We have plenty of historical documents written by the famous historians in this era but nothing from them about this mans life, miracles, or popularity like the Bible so beautifully tells. Heaven and Hell are nothing but a state of mind. They are not places you go. Hell and Satan were created by the men of the bible so they could control the people politically. If you were not good and obey the rules then you were doomed. It is impossible for God to condemn because God is a creator not a destroyer. We are creators also. I create my world around me just like everyone else on this planet.

Here are some facts about Christianity: (JUST THE FACTS)

"WONDERFUL EVENTS THAT TESTIFY TO GOD'S DIVINE GLORY"

Listed are only events that solely occurred on command of church authorities or were committed in the name of Christianity. (List incomplete)

Ancient Pagans

• As soon as Christianity was legal (315), more and more pagan temples were destroyed by Christian mob. Pagan priests were killed.
• Between 315 and 6th century thousands of pagan believers were slain.
• Examples of destroyed Temples: the Sanctuary of Aesculap in Aegaea, the Temple of Aphrodite in Golgatha, Aphaka in Lebanon, the Heliopolis.
• Christian priests such as Mark of Arethusa or Cyrill of Heliopolis were famous as "temple destroyer." [DA468]
• Pagan services became punishable by death in 356. [DA468]
• Christian Emperor Theodosius (408-450) even had children executed, because they had been playing with remains of pagan statues. [DA469]
  According to Christian chroniclers he "followed meticulously all Christian teachings..."
• In 6th century pagans were declared void of all rights.
• In the early fourth century the philosopher Sopatros was executed on demand of Christian authorities. [DA466]
• The world famous female philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria was torn to pieces with glass fragments by a hysterical Christian mob led by a Christian minister named Peter, in a church, in 415.
  [DO19-25]

Mission

• Emperor Karl (Charlemagne) in 782 had 4500 Saxons, unwilling to convert to Christianity, beheaded. [DO30]
• Peasants of Steding (Germany) unwilling to pay suffocating church taxes: between 5,000 and 11,000 men, women and children slain 5/27/1234 near Altenesch/Germany. [WW223]
• Battle of Belgrad 1456: 80,000 Turks slaughtered. [DO235]
• 15th century Poland: 1019 churches and 17987 villages plundered by Knights of the Order. Victims unknown. [DO30]
• 16th and 17th century Ireland. English troops "pacified and civilized" Ireland, where only Gaelic "wild Irish", "unreasonable beasts lived without any knowledge of God or good manners, in common of their goods, cattle, women, children and every other thing." One of the more successful soldiers, a certain Humphrey Gilbert, half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, ordered that "the heddes of all those (of what sort soever thei were) which were killed in the daie, should be cutte off from their bodies... and should bee laied on the ground by eche side of the waie", which effort to civilize the Irish indeed caused "greate terrour to the people when thei sawe the heddes of their dedde fathers, brothers, children, kinsfolke, and freinds on the grounde".
  Tens of thousands of Gaelic Irish fell victim to the carnage. [SH99, 225]

 

Crusades (1095-1291)

• First Crusade: 1095 on command of pope Urban II. [WW11-41]
• Semlin/Hungary 6/24/96 thousands slain. Wieselburg/Hungary 6/12/96 thousands. [WW23]
• 9/9/96-9/26/96 Nikaia, Xerigordon (then turkish), thousands respectively. [WW25-27]
• Until Jan 1098 a total of 40 capital cities and 200 castles conquered (number of slain unknown) [WW30]
• after 6/3/98 Antiochia (then turkish) conquered, between 10,000 and 60,000 slain. 6/28/98 100,000 Turks (incl. women & children) killed. [WW32-35]
  Here the Christians "did no other harm to the women found in [the enemy's] tents - save that they ran their lances through their bellies," according to Christian chronicler Fulcher of Chartres. [EC60]
• Marra (Maraat an-numan) 12/11/98 thousands killed. Because of the subsequent famine "the already stinking corpses of the enemies were eaten by the Christians" said chronicler Albert Aquensis. [WW36]
• Jerusalem conquered 7/15/1099 more than 60,000 victims (jewish, muslim, men, women, children). [WW37-40]
  (In the words of one witness: "there [in front of Solomon's temple] was such a carnage that our people were wading ankle-deep in the blood of our foes", and after that "happily and crying for joy our people marched to our Saviour's tomb, to honour it and to pay off our debt of gratitude")
• The Archbishop of Tyre, eye-witness, wrote: "It was impossible to look upon the vast numbers of the slain without horror; everywhere lay fragments of human bodies, and the very ground was covered with the blood of the slain. It was not alone the spectacle of headless bodies and mutilated limbs strewn in all directions that roused the horror of all who looked upon them. Still more dreadful was it to gaze upon the victors themselves, dripping with blood from head to foot, an ominous sight which brought terror to all who met them. It is reported that within the Temple enclosure alone about ten thousand infidels perished." [TG79]
• Christian chronicler Eckehard of Aura noted that "even the following summer in all of palestine the air was polluted by the stench of decomposition". One million victims of the first crusade alone. [WW41]
• Battle of Askalon, 8/12/1099. 200,000 heathens slaughtered "in the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ". [WW45]
• Fourth crusade: 4/12/1204 Constantinople sacked, number of victims unknown, numerous thousands, many of them Christian. [WW141-148]
• Rest of Crusades in less detail: until the fall of Akkon 1291 probably 20 million victims (in the Holy land and Arab/Turkish areas alone). [WW224]

  _{Note: All figures according to contemporary (Christian) chroniclers.}

 

Heretics

• Already in 385 C.E. the first Christians, the Spanish Priscillianus and six followers, were beheaded for heresy in Trier/Germany [DO26]
• Manichaean heresy: a crypto-Christian sect decent enough to practice birth control (and thus not as irresponsible as faithful Catholics) was exterminated in huge campaigns all over the Roman empire between 372 C.E. and 444 C.E. Numerous thousands of victims. [NC]
• Albigensians: the first Crusade intended to slay other Christians. [DO29]
  The Albigensians (cathars = Christians allegedly that have all rarely sucked) viewed themselves as good Christians, but would not accept roman Catholic rule, and taxes, and prohibition of birth control. [NC]
  Begin of violence: on command of pope Innocent III (greatest single pre-nazi mass murderer) in 1209. Bezirs (today France) 7/22/1209 destroyed, all the inhabitants were slaughtered. Victims (including Catholics refusing to turn over their heretic neighbours and friends) 20,000-70,000. [WW179-181]
• Carcassonne 8/15/1209, thousands slain. Other cities followed. [WW181]
• subsequent 20 years of war until nearly all Cathars (probably half the population of the Languedoc, today southern France) were exterminated. [WW183]
• After the war ended (1229) the Inquisition was founded 1232 to search and destroy surviving/hiding heretics. Last Cathars burned at the stake 1324. [WW183]
• Estimated one million victims (cathar heresy alone), [WW183]
• Other heresies: Waldensians, Paulikians, Runcarians, Josephites, and many others. Most of these sects exterminated, (I believe some Waldensians live today, yet they had to endure 600 years of persecution) I estimate at least hundred thousand victims (including the Spanish inquisition but excluding victims in the New World).
• Spanish Inquisitor Torquemada alone allegedly responsible for 10,220 burnings. [DO28]
• John Huss, a critic of papal infallibility and indulgences, was burned at the stake in 1415. [LI475-522]
• University professor B.Hubmaier burned at the stake 1538 in Vienna. [DO59]
• Giordano Bruno, Dominican monk, after having been incarcerated for seven years, was burned at the stake for heresy on the Campo dei Fiori (Rome) on 2/17/1600.

 

Witches

• from the beginning of Christianity to 1484 probably more than several thousand.
• in the era of witch hunting (1484-1750) according to modern scholars several hundred thousand (about 80% female) burned at the stake or hanged. [WV]
• incomplete list of documented cases:

 

Religious Wars

• 15th century: Crusades against Hussites, thousands slain. [DO30]
• 1538 pope Paul III declared Crusade against apostate England and all English as slaves of Church (fortunately had not power to go into action). [DO31]
• 1568 Spanish Inquisition Tribunal ordered extermination of 3 million rebels in (then Spanish) Netherlands. Thousands were actually slain. [DO31]
• 1572 In France about 20,000 Huguenots were killed on command of pope Pius V. Until 17th century 200,000 flee. [DO31]
• 17th century: Catholics slay Gaspard de Coligny, a Protestant leader. After murdering him, the Catholic mob mutilated his body, "cutting off his head, his hands, and his genitals... and then dumped him into the river [...but] then, deciding that it was not worthy of being food for the fish, they hauled it out again [... and] dragged what was left ... to the gallows of Montfaulcon, 'to be meat and carrion for maggots and crows'." [SH191]
• 17th century: Catholics sack the city of Magdeburg/Germany: roughly 30,000 Protestants were slain. "In a single church fifty women were found beheaded," reported poet Friedrich Schiller, "and infants still sucking the breasts of their lifeless mothers." [SH191]
• 17th century 30 years' war (Catholic vs. Protestant): at least 40% of population decimated, mostly in Germany. [DO31-32]

 

Jews

• Already in the 4th and 5th centuries synagogues were burned by Christians. Number of Jews slain unknown.
• In the middle of the fourth century the first synagogue was destroyed on command of bishop Innocentius of Dertona in Northern Italy. The first synagogue known to have been burned down was near the river Euphrat, on command of the bishop of Kallinikon in the year 388. [DA450]
• 17. Council of Toledo 694: Jews were enslaved, their property confiscated, and their children forcibly baptized. [DA454]
• The Bishop of Limoges (France) in 1010 had the cities' Jews, who would not convert to Christianity, expelled or killed. [DA453]
• First Crusade: Thousands of Jews slaughtered 1096, maybe 12.000 total. Places: Worms 5/18/1096, Mainz 5/27/1096 (1100 persons), Cologne, Neuss, Altenahr, Wevelinghoven, Xanten, Moers, Dortmund, Kerpen, Trier, Metz, Regensburg, Prag and others (All locations Germany except Metz/France, Prag/Czech) [EJ]
• Second Crusade: 1147. Several hundred Jews were slain in Ham, Sully, Carentan, and Rameru (all locations in France). [WW57]
• Third Crusade: English Jewish communities sacked 1189/90. [DO40]
• Fulda/Germany 1235: 34 Jewish men and women slain. [DO41]
• 1257, 1267: Jewish communities of London, Canterbury, Northampton, Lincoln, Cambridge, and others exterminated. [DO41]
• 1290 in Bohemian (Poland) allegedly 10,000 Jews killed. [DO41]
• 1337 Starting in Deggendorf/Germany a Jew-killing craze reaches 51 towns in Bavaria, Austria, Poland. [DO41]
• 1348 All Jews of Basel/Switzerland and Strasbourg/France (two thousand) burned. [DO41]
• 1349 In more than 350 towns in Germany all Jews murdered, mostly burned alive (in this one year more Jews were killed than Christians in 200 years of ancient Roman persecution of Christians). [DO42]
• 1389 In Prag 3,000 Jews were slaughtered. [DO42]
• 1391 Seville's Jews killed (Archbishop Martinez leading). 4,000 were slain, 25,000 sold as slaves. [DA454] Their identification was made easy by the brightly colored "badges of shame" that all jews above the age of ten had been forced to wear.
• 1492: In the year Columbus set sail to conquer a New World, more than 150,000 Jews were expelled from Spain, many died on their way: 6/30/1492. [MM470-476]
• 1648 Chmielnitzki massacres: In Poland about 200,000 Jews were slain. [DO43]

(I feel sick ...) this goes on and on, century after century, right into the kilns of Auschwitz.

 

Native Peoples

• Beginning with Columbus (a former slave trader and would-be Holy Crusader) the conquest of the New World began, as usual understood as a means to propagate Christianity.
• Within hours of landfall on the first inhabited island he encountered in the Caribbean, Columbus seized and carried off six native people who, he said, "ought to be good servants ... [and] would easily be made Christians, because it seemed to me that they belonged to no religion." [SH200]
  While Columbus described the Indians as "idolators" and "slaves, as many as [the Crown] shall order," his pal Michele de Cuneo, Italian nobleman, referred to the natives as "beasts" because "they eat when they are hungry," and made love "openly whenever they feel like it." [SH204-205]
• On every island he set foot on, Columbus planted a cross, "making the declarations that are required" - the requerimiento - to claim the ownership for his Catholic patrons in Spain. And "nobody objected." If the Indians refused or delayed their acceptance (or understanding), the requerimiento continued:

I certify to you that, with the help of God, we shall powerfully enter in your country and shall make war against you ... and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church ... and shall do you all mischief that we can, as to vassals who do not obey and refuse to receive their lord and resist and contradict him." [SH66]

• Likewise in the words of John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony: "justifieinge the undertakeres of the intended Plantation in New England ... to carry the Gospell into those parts of the world, ... and to raise a Bulworke against the kingdome of the Ante-Christ." [SH235]
• In average two thirds of the native population were killed by colonist-imported smallpox before violence began. This was a great sign of "the marvelous goodness and providence of God" to the Christians of course, e.g. the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony wrote in 1634, as "for the natives, they are near all dead of the smallpox, so as the Lord hath cleared our title to what we possess." [SH109,238]
• On Hispaniola alone, on Columbus visits, the native population (Arawak), a rather harmless and happy people living on an island of abundant natural resources, a literal paradise, soon mourned 50,000 dead. [SH204]
• The surviving Indians fell victim to rape, murder, enslavement and spanish raids.
• As one of the culprits wrote: "So many Indians died that they could not be counted, all through the land the Indians lay dead everywhere. The stench was very great and pestiferous." [SH69]
• The indian chief Hatuey fled with his people but was captured and burned alive. As "they were tying him to the stake a Franciscan friar urged him to take Jesus to his heart so that his soul might go to heaven, rather than descend into hell. Hatuey replied that if heaven was where the Christians went, he would rather go to hell." [SH70]
• What happened to his people was described by an eyewitness:
  "The Spaniards found pleasure in inventing all kinds of odd cruelties ... They built a long gibbet, long enough for the toes to touch the ground to prevent strangling, and hanged thirteen [natives] at a time in honor of Christ Our Saviour and the twelve Apostles... then, straw was wrapped around their torn bodies and they were burned alive." [SH72]
  Or, on another occasion:
  "The Spaniards cut off the arm of one, the leg or hip of another, and from some their heads at one stroke, like butchers cutting up beef and mutton for market. Six hundred, including the cacique, were thus slain like brute beasts...Vasco [de Balboa] ordered forty of them to be torn to pieces by dogs." [SH83]
• The "island's population of about eight million people at the time of Columbus's arrival in 1492 already had declined by a third to a half before the year 1496 was out." Eventually all the island's natives were exterminated, so the Spaniards were "forced" to import slaves from other Caribbean islands, who soon suffered the same fate. Thus "the Caribbean's millions of native people [were] thereby effectively liquidated in barely a quarter of a century". [SH72-73] "In less than the normal lifetime of a single human being, an entire culture of millions of people, thousands of years resident in their homeland, had been exterminated." [SH75]
• "And then the Spanish turned their attention to the mainland of Mexico and Central America. The slaughter had barely begun. The exquisite city of Tenochtitln [Mexico city] was next." [SH75]
• Cortez, Pizarro, De Soto and hundreds of other spanish conquistadors likewise sacked southern and mesoamerican civilizations in the name of Christ (De Soto also sacked Florida).
• "When the 16th century ended, some 200,000 Spaniards had moved to the Americas. By that time probably more than 60,000,000 natives were dead." [SH95]

Well there is much more but I don’t want to take up all the space on your blog and I think you get the picture now. I’ll post more on my blog soon.

Why are Christians so judgmental?

It's been some time since I was at this blog. I think I forgot about it. I am back and I have a few things on my mind. You see I have read all the comments that some people have been leaving me and I want to thank all of you for commenting on my blog. I refuse to get into an argument over this subject but I will discuss it with whomever wants to join in. As you can see the title of this post is pointing fingers at the christian faith and I apologize for that. In my heart I do not judge the Christians however questioning them is more what I am doing here. I was a christian for many, many years and none of you can fool me because I used to do it too. My parents did it and still are because that is how they were raised. Reading the comments on what I wrote about God & peoples view of God, the world and the truth there was a very distinct smell of judgment in the comments that speak loud & clear. "We are Right & You are Wrong." If you don't think so then let me quote some of the lines they wrote.

• "Look back at your life and think about all the mistakes that you made"

• "The path you have chosen isn't an easy one"

• "Keep searching for the truth, friend."

• "See the last blog I just posted on my page. I just addressed this subject of Jesus being God."

• "Being connected with God is possible, not by rules, laws, rituals, traditions, but by Jesus."

• "To me it is simple, god is neither male nor female but it is proper to refer to almighty god as male since he created male and female and placed the male as head over the female just as he is head over all the universe. Referring to him in the masculine simply is recognizing him as supreme over all his creation."

• "To say that God is in all things as some kind of symbionic substance with creation reduces him to something less than God. "

• "Your premise about God is very much a New Age idea. It is not rooted in God's revealed truth or even logic. "

There is more but I'll stop right there and move on. First I want to address the one who talks about my premises of God. In logic, an argument is a set of one or more declarative propositions known as the premises. Just to clear it up that I was not arguing at all. I was only speaking the truth about God as it could only be. If we say that God is spirit and completely separate from us then we shove God into a box close the lid and move on. Now we are reducing God to something that we as humans can grasp with our finite minds, but if you think of the universe and the vast unending spacetime continuum and the mind starts to move out of the box realizing that God is much more than that. God IS in everything we see, touch, feel, smell, taste and hear. I think we can all agree that without God none of that would be possible. God is the spirit, the father, the mother, the mountains, the flowers, the water, the planets, the brother, sister, husband, wife, and friend. Namaste is a common spoken greeting or salutation in the Indian subcontinent.
Derived from Hinduism and Buddhism, and in India it has multi-religious or else common usage where it may simply mean "I bow to that inherent in you" ("that" here refers to divinity, or that which is divine'). New Age or not, it is what it is. (to be continued)

Namaste

Oprah's New Church?

I have been reading online recently about all the mess that this Oprah "NEW AGE" thing is causing all kinds of bitterness from Christians. This is probably ok since God is probably very bitter also and that gives the Christians the right to be bitter. I think, since I like to think for myself that God being all that he is doesn't have any wants or desires and he/she needs nothing at all. God does not have to deal with emotions of the ego because he has no ego. The ONLY emotion that God is or has would be LOVE!

I do not condemn what you believe in. I too was raised in a southern Baptist church like many others and within the past 8 or so years I have been questioning my beliefs that I was taught from my parents who were taught from their parents and on and on. I have also read the Bible and studied it. Something isn't right with these books all put together over 2,000 years ago. I recently read a book by Acharya S called "The Christ Conspiracy, The Greatest Story Ever Sold". Now I do know that you probably will not read this book however I will still recommend it to you and all Christians alike. This was a very enlightening book to read because it really opened my eyes to many things. To make a long story short the evidence of the Bibles authenticity is at best very disturbing to me. You see the bible has been changed,edited and messed with since it started to be written which was somewhere between 2 and 4 hundred years after everything had supposedly happened. The only history we have of this man called Jesus is the Bible. We have plenty of historical documents written by all the famous historians in this era but nothing from them about this mans life, miracles, or popularity like the Bible so beautifully tells.

What I am saying here is that I want to think for myself and weigh the evidence and decide for myself what is the truth. I have concluded that LOVE IS TRUTH and not what the Bible says it is. God did not create evil beings although it does seem that we as a human race can be very evil sometimes. We all seem to think that we are apart from each other when in reality there is only ONE. I feel God every day I am alive and I am filled with love, compassion and goodwill towards all on this earth. Heaven and Hell are nothing but states of mind. They are not places you go. It is impossible for God to condemn because God is a creator not a destroyer. We are creators also. I create my world around me just like everyone else on this planet.

You are a god, the creator of your self, and it's not a new age fantasy or belief, you are a god. Sounds like blasphemy doesn't it? Well they said the same thing in my day and tried to stone me to death for making the statement . . . just as today many cry blasphemy and turn against whomever says they are a god. Reading John 10:33-34, The Jews answered me, saying, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy; because thou, being a man, maketh thyself God. I answered them,

Is it not written in your law,
I said, Ye are gods?

And sure enough, if you turn to and read Psalms 82:6, you read, I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

You see, this follows my teaching of the Father, the individualized god part of yourself. We are all gods. Here on earth there is the Son of man, which becomes born again as the Son of god - ONE with your Father god who art in heaven.

There is only one other "god" reference made in this way which has been recorded in the Bible, and that is in Acts 17:18 where Paul was teaching in Athens, reading, ... and some said, What will this babbler say? others said, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods ...

With all my Love...God Bless!

GOOD AND EVIL

What is good and evil? The religions of the world have approached the subject of evil in different ways. The Western beliefs use Satan, created in writings of the Old Testament, as the personification of evil. The ancient Hebrew religion said that evil came from God, as punishment for man’s disobedience; but a problem in the Hebrew faith made it necessary to change their doctrine. Jerusalem surrendered to the Babylonians in 597 BCE , and the city was destroyed in 586 BCE; For half a century Jewish captivity and exile took place . It started looking as though Yahweh (the god of Abraham) was punishing the Hebrew people.

They began to believe in a “doomsday” attitude, and that God had broken his covenant due to the disobedience of the people. Decades of trying to appease Yahweh without success it became apparent that the religion, provided no hope to the believers. The Persian duality concept of good (ormazd) and evil (ahriman) led the Old Testament writers to develop a similar doctrine; and between 538 BCE and 518 BCE, the contemporary characterization of Satan was born

Satan, the enemy God, allowed the religion to blame what was perceived as punishment from God on a new and opposing figure, creating an Abrahamic form of duality. The name Satan only appears in four books of the Old Testament, and is prominent in only one {Job: written between 500 and 250 BCE), by the time Christianity appeared, adaptation of Persian duality had become widely accepted in Judaism. Christians expanded the role of Satan, and brought him almost to the same level as God with each having the ability to control a person’s mind (or soul). This now meant that God was only connected with good, Satan only with evil, and humanity were helpless pawns in the staged competition between the two entities.

To allow evil beings to override the intent of God, is to say that divine will is not omnipotent. To permit entities to afflict mankind as a test of virtue, is to say that God is not omniscient; for if God already knows whether you are good or bad, He is simply tormenting the innocent without cause, and is consequently evil himself.

There IS Nothing But God

Nothing exists outside of God. Everything in creation, at its most basic level, is filled with the essence of God. There is nothing else!

Mankind insists on the notion that God is separate from us and we are separate from each other. The truth is that we are one with God and each other. God is in everything we see. He/She is in us all and we are in her. There is only One in this universe and that is God. Science has proven that everything in the universe is Energy. This energy is huge and you and I are a part of that energy. God is the source and if she were to shoot all the energy my way I would explode. I could not handle it and neither could you. He disperses this energy perfectly so that we can function in this world.

The Bible has told us that God is a spirit being. It also says that God made us in his image. Spirit is translated as "Breath". See here Logic tells me that breath has no form. So if God is formless then how did he make us in his/her image? We have been told that God gets angry, jealous, judgmental, and vengeful. I thought God was perfect. I thought the he has unconditional love. The Bible seems to send mixed messages as to the real nature of God. If God is perfect then she would not have any of the traits of us. Other interesting points are that he is prejudice and she shows favoritism and that God is male. God cannot have gender, he is spirit or breath...remember. This Blog is not to cut down any religion. I want only to point out some interesting facts that you can think about. I was taught the very same thing as a child. My advice is to not believe anything you read, not even what I am saying here. Just have an open mind and think about whatever you read and then listen to your heart. The real truth is inside you.