please forgive if you took this to offense. I got alittle caught up… also forgive if this sounds like word vomit. my hands can’t keep up with my mind. (not the word vomit like “what this person’s saying is crap.”)

Now down to work. Where does religion come from? I believe that first we need to examine what the very first conscious thought was and who had it. I agree the answer is found in cave-man times. Could the first thought have been, “Who am I and where am I?” I don’t think so for those are such inward oriented questions that they demand that all other needs be filled prior to raising them. But I am hoping that the first thought was indeed a question. A lightning bolt flashes across the sky, thunder roars and perhaps the first thought was, “What the hell was that!” Of course without a concept yet of the man-made place called “hell,” you should substitute a similar invective for our pristine cave dweller. What the hell was that, coupled with a startled look at the sky must have caused him/her/them to think that there’s something up there and we should definitely avoid it angry. Thus began all sorts of mythology. Mythology, of course, is the name folks apply to a religion gone out of fashion. I wonder how Joseph Campbell felt when he was repeatedly denounced for discussing what he called the Jesus Myth. Drove so many jesus christers nuts, it did. So do we consider it fair so say that religion looks like it may have begun out of fear and ignorance? If so, then have we changed at all since then? I don’t believe so. Just our machines have gotten “better” over the years. This point was driven home by Arthur C. Clark and Stanley Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey when they made the famous jump-cut from the ape/man with his bone to an outer space riddled with orbiting weapons. It is still the Dawn of Man according to the films inter-titles. (BTW, 2001 has been called the only movie about religion which never shows god) Well, that’s all as to where I think religion as normally practiced today comes from. Where religious sects come from is another thing. But I have often wondered if sociologists have taken note of the newest religion? In this new religion, a charismatic man tells stories through songs. People love him and believe him to be more than human. He is showered with love, adoration and wealth. Then he dies tragically young. People flock to his home by the millions. Then he returns! He is spotted all over the world. People develop “theories” about why he is seen by so many followers. Those who worship the dead man who they insist still lives, become the butt of jokes as they dress like him and try to gather souvenirs from their idol’s home, appropriately enough called Graceland. And the sightings continue to this day; the people who spot the great god Elvis become local celebrities. Elvis is even accorded the ultimate in 21st century worship: His holy image appears on a piece of toast. And every year the gatherings – conventions – continue as does the required pilgrimage to Graceland. It is a new religion in the making. And it is quite peaceful. Peaceful until the sightings of Carl Perkins begin…

I m sure YOU ARE such a mystic, as You are writing and MAKING BUCKS out of “Prayer, The Tarot, The Middle Pillar Technique, Will Power, The Bible, Incense, Oils, Happiness, Talismans, Amulets, Black Magick even Life After Death”…

I m sure you are also mystical endowed enough as to unbreak the Secret Secret Secret codes of these “precious” writings.. aren t you?
tell me , rev rev, what s in for my future in the cartoons TAROT cards you master ?
I m sure YOU ARE capable to tell it to me, aren t you?

Need I say more?
Look who’s talking about getting medicated.

Hermes rightly pointed, nothing special under the sub, no update and upgrade to bring these old texts and thinking to reality?

what a mountain of crap.
Inconsistent.

As long as religion is bad, all religions are bad.

Now you have become a religion apologist for the fraction of jewish religion only?

I m really confused about your stance.
swinging?
or are you covering your head too?
I guess it is OK to be hateful against ignorant dumb ass christians, but God forbid we touch the Judaism. don t we?

P.S. Ah Rev Rev, in your book you write about subjects such as Prayer, The Tarot, The Middle Pillar Technique, Will Power, The Bible, Incense, Oils, Happiness, Talismans, Amulets, Black Magick even Life After Death!
And I thought religious people are deranged!!!