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     A few days ago I said that I was no longer going to watch any more streaming Christian shows over the internet, but, having monitored the Christian media for years I guess that old habits are hard to break. It would seem that the new strategy of the Christian media is to focus on my 'Satanic links' and also on the 'strangeness' of certain religious traditions and systems of belief that one might find when surfing some of those links or some of those webrings. They cannot deal effectively with my Biblical critique but they can appeal to a sense of bigotry in people towards things that sound different or foreign, and they can combine this with an appeal to deeply rooted superstitions (the result of a lack of truly deep faith). They can fear monger about 'the paranormal phenomena' and hold difference up to scorn as an example of 'Satanic strangeness.' By the way, I knew this was going to happen when I started listing myself on all these alternative search engines and joining with various webrings.

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     I am not one who is inclined to whitewash the wall. Let us be blunt. The Christian tradition has always been one of the most intolerant, rigid traditions on the planet. This intolerance led the churches again and again into the pits of wickedness and cruelty, as anyone who is the least bit familiar with history should remember. The church began with wiping out the Gnostic churches, and later they would wipe out an entire province of France. Estimates range from several hundred thousand to two million human beings were the victims of the various purges and inquisitions of the church. And the there was the 'residential school' experience in Canada, where churches tried to destroy Native American culture and traditions (they were heathens and full of the devil. Actually there is much to be said for Native American spirituality, but the rigid narrowness of thinking in the churches blinded them from appreciating this fact. The churches in Canada are still embroiled in the law suits that resulted from their conduct in this matter, with a number of churches actually teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.) As for 'Satanism' it is ironic that anyone who was really looking for evil does not have to stray to far from the Judeo-Christian tradition to find some. In the Bible we have stories of mass murder, cruel and sadistic tortures, the slaughtering of infants, the raping of virgins, and a dogmatic attitude towards religion that denigrates humanity and scorns simple reason and the most ordinary of common sense. As Thomas Paine, a famous deist, put it, "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind. And, for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel..." (He was being hyperbolic, by the way. The Judeo-Christian tradition is not monolithic, and, as Mark Twain recognized, the Bible is actually a kind of 'drugstore' with 'equal parts poisons and cures.' The fact that the poisons were always used instead of the 'cures' he blamed on the pharmicist not the pharmacy.) So I cannot join a Christian webring, because the little that remains of the dying church has not changed that much over time (it remains rigidly dogmatic and committed to a policy of 'dogmatizing' people and the pulpit certainly does not appreciate beiong interupted while they were in the middle of doing it either).

     Now while joining with all these various other link sites and web rings does leave me wide open to attack by the church, I could care less. I will leave the door wide open for them to exploit the deeply ingrained prejudices and bigotries in our society, the contempt for diffence particularly in religion by going on about Satan, fear mongering and hurling stones. As for those link sites, it could very well be the case that someone might go searching on a search engine for something 'strange' something 'different' (you know, 'Satanism') and they could wind up at my site for a while, at which time I intend to nail them with my Biblical critique and my personal testimony of 'strangeness'. I call it innoculation. And since my 'strange stories' are true, I also call it truth telling and truth sharing. You know it will be just about impossible to 'save their souls' with the Bible after that visit to my site (at least not with that doctrine of 'Biblical inerrancy'). This will please me a great deal and so I want to thank all those New Age search engines and link sites and webrings for listing my site. You see, it turns out that you can be a Christian, even one with an 'evangelical' streak in them like I have, and still get along just fine with all kinds of people, something I wish those other churches could learn to do. As for 'Satanism', like I said, when you surf some of those church links you will arrive at places where your mind will assaulted, your common sense denigrated, your humanity degraded all for the sake of some obsolete ancient dogma. This hiding of the truth and the fear mongering and appeals to superstition and bigotry that usually accompany such conduct is particularly cruel and I have been protesting against it for years and years now. I don't understand what motivates people to behave like that, and I am past caring anymore. Everyone has to follow their own path. I just want to make sure that people understand that they have options.

     You never see reform without seeing at the same time a powerful reactionary backlash. This is what I am seeing in the Christian media. The strength of the backlash is directly related to the strength of the critique. For the most part this is just preachers in the pulpit trying to keep what they've got. It certainly isn't the church talking to soceity as a whole, because no one is listening. As for intolerance and bigotry towards difference, especially in religion, the Judeo-Christian tradition is not monolithic, it is itself a diverse collection of various traditions that span the spectrum. But, ironically, those same churches that are so intolerant of difference in others show the same adamant intolerance towards the differences in tradition within the Judeo-Christian itself.

      For example several years ago I was touting the radical traditons of Jeremiah, who taught that the animal sacrifice laws in the Bible did not come to Moses on a mountain top, and that the Levites were forging the laws of God so that people no longer understand the requirements of God. It's in the Bible, and this is a perfect example of how you can take certain Bible verses literally without needing to 'interpret' then figure out what he might have meant. Well certain churches were provoked to wrath by this, and they began to attack both me, and, it turns out, they also began to attack Jeremiah. One time they claimed to have located 'Mount Sinai' and actually found a bloody rock which certainly must have been that very altar Moses used to teach those people the Levitical sacrificial laws. They clearly proved once again that 'scriptures were infallibly inerrant' and in the process they clearly proved what a liar both myself and the prophet Jeremiah really were, thus, ironically proving in the process that the Bible is not 'infallibly inerrant' (preserving on its pages such a collection of lying prophets and disciples after all). the doctrine of 'inerrancy' is not about the Bible itself, this much is obvious, but rather it is about social control and manipulation. As to why people get possessed by such powerful bigotries and such unloving hostility towards humanity that they feel the need to abuse people and denigrate their humanity by teaching them such a collection of harmful falsehoods is something I don't understand, and I have given up on trying to figure out something so queer. I am just committed to struggling against this practice, and it takes two to tango, so you can expect more attacks to be launched against me from the pulpit and over the airwaves.

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     While I insist on these pages that the Bible is a collection of variant traditions, it is not the case that all traditions are created equal. Some traditions are worthless (traditions of rigid domgatism, or "Holy War Ideology", for example). You cannot separate ideology from action, and you cannot absorb such harmful doctrines without suffering harm to your personality. For example, I was watching the TBN network and was shocked to see a show celebrating the salvation of the eternally damned soul of a doddering 95 year old woman. While syrupy violins played weepily in the background, the program made a point of repeating again and again that the woman was '95 years old.' In otherwords she could have dropped dead at any time, and thankfully, due to the efforts of such TV channels as TBN this '95 year old woman gave her soul to Christ' before it was to late. So you can imagine then, Christ as a persecutor of helpless grannies. Not just a persecutor but rather a burner and eternal torturer of doddering and helpless little old ladies. I wonder if TBN is still waiting for that grateful blessing, 'well done my faithful servant.' After blaspheming against Christ like that I can't see it. If anyone else on earth burned grannies and tortured them, especially for something as worthless as their ideas or beliefs, they would be locked up and the key would be thrown away, but such is the state of the churches that something like that could be touted and celebrated. The second worst thing I have seen lately was on CrossTV, another streaming site on the net. Someone was dogmatizing a whole conference of young teenagers. He told them,his voice all weepy, that his love for humanity caused him great pain when thinking about the Bhuddists. "There are literally hundreds of millions of Bhuddists who don't have a chance," he said,"and these are living human beings." Well, those Bhuddists might not 'have a chance' if such preachers, with no genuine mercy or compassion (or simple common sense) were the ones to judge (but then, as the scriptures themselves teach, 'do not judge, do not condemn' so I don't think we need to worry about that, now do we). It goes without saying that I did not appreciate listening to an auditorium of teenagers and children having their heads filled with evil Bible verses and trained in intolerance, hostility, and bigotry. Bhuddism is a very noble tradition, and I was a Bhuddist myself before I was ever a Christian, and I still retain a great deal of respect for the pragmatism and the emphasis on individual experience and personal mystical spirituality found in the Bhuddist tradition. That sermon was clearly bigoted, and trying to disguise it with weepy appeals to love for humanity was just another example of those logical fallacies that often proceed from the pulpit. These evil Bible passages I protest against damage the human personality, and then all the damaged can do is to try their best to damage and destroy others. And the church is held in contempt everywhere and is withering on the vine.

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." ---Buddha

     And So I continue work, in the belief that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. You see so many people in those churches have such a poor understanding of the Bible. They really don't know, and as I mentioned, the pulpit is determined to see to it that they don't find out. Once people have been trapped up in this system of thought it is very, very hard to save them, and add onto that the fact that they oftentimes feel humiliated that they were tricked in the first place, and that can make them even harder to save. Best to stop them from getting snared up in the first place. It is one less complicating factor to have to fix.

     Someone wrote and shared some words about my site, as well as some personal testimony.

many thanks for the experiences and links you have given to me. I find the information fascinating, and like you I search for answers to the unknown experiences encountered.

At first I kept what I experienced to myself for fear of ridicule, but inside, one still keeps trying to find answers. When the internet became available and I began to read what other people had been through it made me feel a whole lot better. I know I'm not a "kook" is the word, usually I am a level headed person who gets on with life. I have experiences where as an example..I implored my husband to call his grandmother, who at the time was almost deaf, she was blind and had buried her husband recently at that time. He did call, and had one of the best conversations with her he could remember, she had no problem hearing him, and they really connected, and he got to tell her how much he loved her. Within 24 hours, we got a call to say she had died in her chair, I think by her choice. I knew my father had died (when I was 14) before anyone told me, because he appeared to me in the night to say goodbye...then at 5-00 am when my sister and brother came, I already knew what they had to tell me. I have had several "strange" experiences during my life, which I am usually reluctant to discuss, because I don't have answers for them, and usually the general populance tends to riducule this. ... I will be happy to add you as a link. Take care and bye for now

     Thank you for the link and for the testimony...