Updated:
08/05/10
CHAPTER
23
MAKE YOUR OWN RELIGION
I
said earlier, no one could do worse, or be more immoral, than did the barbarian
holy men in making up their religions. Certain criterions need to be set forth
first. A good new religion should be ethical, educational, entertaining and
inspiring. The morals should conform to modern psychology, health, science and
common sense. A new religion should challenge us to be the best people of which
we are capable. We should recognize our humanity and that our humanity is good.
We should never forget to explore the mysteries of the seen and of the unseen
world. We must also explore the truths and wisdom held within the secrets and
teachings of the Ancient Wise Men.
We
must expose and dispel the current believer's concept of religious sin. We must
free people from the false guilt and fear that the religions force upon people
in order to control their lives and check books. We must induce common sense
into the thinking of the members and followers. We must instill the search for well-being and happiness in people. We must help set people
free from superstitions and false beliefs so they may be the best people they
are capable of being.
Knowledge, the development of talents, the
teaching of healthy morals and the exercise of common sense will produce
personal well being, open the door to happiness and limit crime. Even
punishment and correction for errors and willful wrongdoing should conform to
high ethical standards and have character development and peace among the
people as its ultimate goal. That is, it should be better than the Christian
religious attitude displayed today toward those who do not conform to their
teachings, laws and ethics. Punishment must include the opportunity for
restitution to those wronged and the rehabilitation of the perpetrator’s
thinking and actions. Chronic criminals must be isolated and if possible,
retrained in some wholesome moral and useful work. Repeat offenders must be
isolated from society and given some dignity and constructive work to pay for
their keep.
Our new religion should prepare its
followers for getting the most out of this life, for developing caring and
helpful personalities, for fine-tuning one's spiritual attitude toward the seen
and unseen in the world. It should stress keeping an open mind toward those
things called spiritual. It should aid in learning to think and in getting the
most out this life and any future life (if there is one). Help people to see
that this life is worth living.
Our new religion should be fun. There
should be regular common dinners on the grounds, fun and educational things to
do, dances, classes where concepts can be batted around, dating services, aid
to the needy, good movies, production of videos, print literature, trips,
classes on practical things, art groups, group meditation, internet web pages,
counseling for marriage, family counseling, drug abuse programs, finance
counseling, career helps, scholarship helps for young people, sports, collect
and maintain a good library, self help classes, maintain nurseries for your
families, philosophy classes in many subjects, loan service for members,
evangelical enterprises (radio, TV, Internet, literature, public meetings and
forums) quite places where one could sit and think or communion with himself
and anything else that seems needed or appropriate. Your church should keep
your members involved in life, self-development, community service and
happiness.
The goals of our new religion should be
worthy, yet still attainable by modern man. There should be present and future
rewards and pleasures involved in our religion. In other words, people should
want to be a part of our religion because it is wholesome, wise, useful and teaches them how to be the best person they are
capable of being. It should help develop the talents and abilities of members.
People should want to be a part of our religion because it promises them
happiness and well being in the present and future, and because it insures the
same thing for their children and their children's children.
LET US MAKE OUR OWN RELIGION.
If
I were making a religion, I would select worthy goals, worthy principles and
worthy activities. I would “Personify” my goals and call them my Gods. My
Father God would be named “Freedom.” I would expect to be free and I would
expect all of those around me to experience the fresh air and blessings of
Freedom. I would also expect to pass on to my children and to their children's
children, the highest possible Freedom. I would worship Freedom and would teach
the benefits of Freedom to all of those who wish for it but find themselves
constantly frustrated. For my God, Freedom, I would strive to free myself and
others from those institutions, beliefs and teachings that enslave us and
destroy our right to live in peace, harmony and freedom.
A person may be technically free in a harsh
desert, but if he has no water and no topsoil, his freedom is vastly curtailed.
Therefore, my Heaven would be this earth and I would fight to protect our earth
from its enemies. That is, the big destructive businesses, wars, misuse of the
land and misuse of the resources of the earth, including the misuse of man
himself.
My “Gospel” (my Good News) would be that we
must convert people to the position of being the best person they are capable
of being. We must also make this earth into the Heaven it is capable of being.
The good news is this earth is able to give to mankind all of the good things
that we can imagine. We must do our part to bring about this heaven on earth
and make it into the best of all possible worlds and make us into the best
people. We must use all of our waste products in ways that strengthens earth’s
ability to keep itself healthy.
I would oppose big church, big government,
big education, big business and big economy, IF they sought to herd individuals
into manageable groups for their own economic or political purposes. I would do
this, not because of the bigness, but rather because in bigness the individual
is so often lost and loses his freedom. He becomes a mere number. Numbering for
efficiency is one thing. Numbering to institute control over the individual is
a totally different matter. The trend in bigness often slows down the progress
of the whole to fit the slow pace of the slowest ones in the group and it
extends the Big Brother concept of interest, which we detest and which power
and wealth mongers adore.
Control
of money would be given back into the hands of the government and there would
be no interest charged by the government on loans for the necessities of life.
With no interest to pay, the banks could close their doors and there would be
no need for income tax to pay off the interest which the banks charge the
government and individuals for the use of their unsecured “paper IOU notes”
which they falsely call dollars.
Grouping often tends to enslave the
individual. I would expose and throw my mind and activity against enslavement
of any kind including usury (interest). Any institution that wanted to reduce
me to a servant and issue me a number, or wanted to enslave me in some manner,
that institution would be my evil and their policies of destruction and
enslavement would be one of the sins against which my religion would constantly
fight.
My Son of God would be “Justice.” Without
Justice, one cannot dwell happily in the Heavenly land of Freedom and Liberty.
The godly mother of Justice would be that
beautiful, precious and most useful principle that sets men free and produces
the desire for Justice in the minds of all men. The mother of Justice is
“Wisdom.” Wisdom is the ability to engage in logical, honest, knowledgeable
thought. Wisdom is the ability to cut through the propaganda and brain washing.
Wisdom is the ability to arrive at conclusions that are in accord with not only
the facts, but which are also in harmony with the present and future needs of
mankind. Wisdom is the hunting for and the use of knowledge and honesty in
thinking. Wisdom is the ability to separate the true from the false, the good
from the evil, the facts from the fictions.
MARRY WISDOM TO FREEDOM
AND THE OFFSPRING IS JUSTICE.
Justice
is the salvation of any people. Justice is the preserver of civilization.
Justice is the cement that holds society together. Justice drives the enemies
and devils from the face of the earth. Justice teaches men to love Freedom.
Justice removes fear from the hearts and minds of men. Justice eliminates the
threats of the destruction of all mankind. Justice is the Light that
illuminates the errors of the past, the opportunities of the present and the
possibilities of the future. Without Justice, there is only fear and chaos. Men
and women who know that only Justice awaits them (and those around them) are
not subject to fall for false claims, false punishments, false taxes and false
promises. There is no principle more important to mankind and his civilizing
process than the principle of Justice.
JUSTICE SAVES!
Logical
Thinking (Wisdom) and meditation would take the place of prayer in my religion.
Nothing can substitute for honest logical thinking, which leads us directly to
the mother of Justice who is Wisdom. Each person in my religion would be
required to learn the facts of life and science and think about them. He should
spend some time thinking about what a wonderful world we have and how he can
improve it. He must also think about his own personal problems and development
that he alone must face and solve. He would also be expected to do some logical
thinking about all of the propaganda and brain washing that always has and
always will be forced upon mankind. Those who progressed in the skill of
learning and the habit of thinking would be called upon to study into the
mysteries of life, and to teach their children and those around them to think
logically and honestly. Thinking might one day be as common placed an
occurrence in our society as the deception of prayer is today.
Now every religion needs a real Devil. Have
I got one for you? I have! The Devil must be the Opposite of our God Freedom.
Our Devil must be that which opposes Justice, destroys Freedom and censors
Wisdom. He must be that which keeps men from having justice and freedom in
their own lives. Our Devil must be that which keeps mankind from honestly
thinking and which inhibits mental growth. Our Devil must be a personal Devil
in the same manner that our God, Freedom, is a personal God. This Devil of ours
seeks to destroy Honest Doubt, Clear Thinking and our quest for Justice, Wisdom
and Freedom.
“BELIEF”
IS OUR DEVIL!
This
Devil of yours and mine is the present day ruler of our civilization. This
Devil, Belief, has stolen our children. He has stolen our wealth and a great
portion of our productivity to use for selfish wars and crimes. He has stolen
our manhood and our humanity. He has great plans for the future enslavement of
our children. He has given us ignorance and prejudice, war and poverty and
other untold evils. Our Devil Belief is the bringer and teacher of moral
darkness, intellectual darkness, social darkness, medical darkness, political
darkness and economic darkness. And second to none of the above, this Devil of
ours has spread his darkness over our fun times, our need and desire for truth,
as well as over our beds of love and affection.
We must resist this Devil. We must point
him out and point out his dark deeds (which he calls good). The unsuspecting,
the childlike minds who are swayed by his false prophecies and lying promises
must be warned. We must ridicule him. We must contradict his statement that he
is right and we are wrong. We must mock him. We must expose him at every turn.
But Beware! This Devil, Belief, is a
"roaring lion," roaming the streets and the airways, seeking whom he
may devour, whom he may enslave, whom he may deceive.
He comes in various disguises with numerous promises. He will laugh with you.
He will cry with you. He will make love to you and he will steal your humanity,
your mind and your most prized possessions. He will leave you confused,
betrayed, disillusioned, frustrated, hostile and empty as a beach shell. He
will steal your future. Follow the Devil, Belief and you are human in name
only.
It is time to drive the Devil back into the
darkness of ignorance from which he came, alone with his disciples, the
Teachers of Belief. They must be stripped of their protection, their tax
exemptions, their ability to lie without question in print and over the radio
and television. Let them give the facts and the truth anytime or anyplace, but
they should be halted from telling their lies and claiming these lies are the
truth that came straight from the mouth of the Almighty by way of a revelation
in their heads. We must stop the kidnapping of our children.
WATCH OUT FOR THE DEVIL, BELIEF.
My
religion would be evangelical. It would seek to save people from the miseries
and destitution of mental, religious and physical slavery. It would encourage
people to do many things for themselves. Industry, inventiveness and
innovations would again be in vogue.
My priests would be the scientists,
sociologists and medical doctors whose job would be to develop devices and
methods that would give everyone new and better ways of having good health and
all of the necessities and pleasures of life without having to sell their
freedom and independence to get them. They would help strip the dictatorial
power and wealth mongering from our insurance, chemical, industrial and
pharmacological empires. They would help restore honesty to our politics and to
our economy. They would seek to restore Justice back into our legal system.
They would also be the teachers of wholesome morals and factual knowledge.
The private temple of our God Freedom would
be our own body. It would be wise to keep it healthy. Our scientists and
medical doctors would advise us on preventive care and good mental and physical
health. Meditation must be used to discover the power and possibilities that
lay dormant within every man and woman.
The Great Temple would be nature, the great
outdoors, the canyons, the deserts, the rivers, the lakes, the forest, the
plains and above all, the mountains and seas. We would clean the Great Temple
so one could look up at night and see the stars. We would carpet the floor with
flowers, foliage, fruits and food. We would clean the waters so a man or beast
could drink from the waters of any stream without fear of poisoning or disease.
My religion would insist on removing fear
from our economy by instituting an honest monetary system based on firm money
and work instead of on oil, IOU's and deficit spending. Usury would be outlawed
and anyone caught lending money at interest would be treated as a loan shark.
Every family should have a place to live. However, they should also have to
work and pay for it.
Taxes are mostly chains used to enslave a
population and enrich the bankers, an elite rulership
(and their friends). My religion would abolish all enforced taxes and
especially taxes on one's own home. Taxes to the government for special
projects could be paid for in part with labor and contractors could not object.
My religion would work for simplified
transportation. If a man lives a few miles from his work and wishes to ride a
bicycle to work, he should not have to place his life into the hands of unknown
and hostile drivers. Why does a family of two now own three or four motorized
means of transportation? My religion would insist on common sense
transportation.
Public transportation should be everywhere,
be economical, safe and free of crime. Justice, Wisdom and Freedom will foster
Logical Clear Thinking. This attitude can rid our cities and country
sides from the grip of the criminal element. We have crime because crime
pays! Common Sense can remove the rewards that are reaped by the criminal
element. Not many are criminals because it is fun. They do it for the profit of
it. We will remove the profit. (This is explained in the article on Drugs and Crime.)
Ways must be found to settle disputes
without engaging in total wars. The rights of humanity that have been usurped
by governments, religions, businesses and educational practices, must be
returned to the individual. Most lawsuits could be replaced by common sense
meetings between the antagonists and moderated by moral and just men and women.
The wealthy and aristocracy are individuals
and have their rights, but they do not have the right to enjoy the cream of
other men's labors, nor to hold a single individual in suppression or
servitude. Corporations should not be considered as separate personal entities,
but should be considered as property of the owners and taxed as such under
honest and fair tax laws.
Justice must be provided for in all areas
of life for all men and women as must health care. The
only legitimate servants must be machines. Scientists must be allowed to delve
into all areas of the world and universe. Weapons and instruments of great
destruction, whether they are electronic, physical, mental, chemical or
biological, must be withheld from criminal or military use.
Art, music and education would be
encouraged and supported. As part of the uplifting of mankind, beauty, harmony
and true philosophy would be made to flourish. Pleasures would prosper. Silly
Religious Blue Laws, Prohibitions and Perversion laws would be stricken from
the law books.
The Holy Book of my religion would be very
small and subject to no misinterpretation. Central in its texts would be the
Golden Rule, "Do not do to others that which you would not have them do to
you." It would begin and end with the statement of truth. "You can
know the truth and the truth will set you free." Inside of my Holy Book
would be the admonition, "What a man sows, that shall he also reap."
Inside would also be many suggestions of what and how to sow good moral seed so
that the harvest will also be good.
EVERY RELIGION
NEEDS SOME COMMANDMENTS. HERE ARE MINE.
You
shall serve your Gods, Freedom, Justice and Wisdom.
You shall treat others as you wish to be
treated.
You shall cherish your Mother, the earth.
You shall leave everything better than you
found it.
You shall practice Justice, honesty and
common sense.
You shall love Freedom and extend it to
all.
You shall seek knowledge through studying
and observation.
You shall seek Wisdom through Honest Clear
Thinking and debate.
You shall seek authenticity and never rely
on, or believe in authority.
You shall seek personal wellbeing, love and
happiness.
You shall expose the falseness of that old
Devil, Belief.
You shall be known for your good works and
gentle spirit.
You
shall seek to know the mysteries and secrets of the unseen.
I would name my religion after the greatest
benefactor and savior of all mankind, Justice. The name of our new religion is,
"JUSTISM." Would you like to be a member of the only church worthy of
mankind? Would you like to join the Church of Justice?
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A JUSTINIAN?
To
join the Church of Justice, you must realize and accept in your own personal
life, your thinking and your actions that "Justice Saves.” If you accept and plan to live the fact that "Justice
Saves,” you are now a member in good standing of our new religion. You now
belong to the Good, the Grand and the Great. You belong to:
THE CHURCH OF JUSTICE
Instead
of ending our songs and meditations with "Amen," which by the way is
from Egypt and honors the God Amon, we will end our
songs of praise and our meditations with
JUSTICE
SAVES!
And
let us not forget music that quiets the mind, challenges the emotions and lifts
our spirits. Some of you musician out there should write some good songs for
our new church. Some of you ministers may wish to write some sermons that dwell
on the truths found in the HONEST MAN'S
PHILOSOPHY.
Get out there and practice your new religion and serve your
Gods,
FREEDOM, JUSTICE and WISDOM.
Get out there and expose that old Devil,
BELIEF.
And Always Remember,
JUSTICE SAVES!
Thomas E. Blaylock
Copyright: 1999
Updated: 04/04/08
Updated: 08/05/10
