Imagine There's No Satan

Does A Lie Told Long Enough Become The Truth ? Do you like lies? Lies are all around us and come in many forms and sizes. There are white lies and then of course there must be black lies, the really big lies. Children lie to their parents, parents to their children, employees to bosses and husbands to wives. But what is the most powerful of lies? I would have to say it is the lie we perpetuate by retelling something untrue to each other. This happens when an idea or belief has migrated to the substructures of collective consciousness. We trap ourselves in the lie by retelling it over and over and failing to explore if that idea or belief is true or not. If we consider the power that comes from repeating a lie long enough so that it is believed as a truth , then perhaps some of what forms us as individuals might be lies. And when it comes to our beliefs, some of the most basic Christian  teachings may really be lies. They sound good in casual conversation but when taken to t...

Could it be possible that there is no God? Could it be possible that there is no Satan" The concept of God in religion can be traced back to the people who claim to have encountered God but the concept of Satan can only be traced to a period when the people of God were mingled with the people of myth. Peoples who fabricated a dualistic two-god philosophy and influenced a disenfranchised group of Hebrew people. The Hebrew peopel adopted the mythological idea and it migrated silently into the Hebrew faith, into the Pharisaic Judaism of the first century and into the Christianity of today. How many of us truly discover where our beleifs came from and how the came to exist? Most decide what they beleive by hearing it from parents, pastors, and propganda designed to convince those unwilling to search, search, search. A plattitude becomes the truth for most people, particularly religious people. Hearing a religious plattitude repeatedly in life and history proves to cement the false bel...