The Topsy-turvy World of Religions

Gurus lurking behind gods and religions have this amazing ability of seeing things upside down -- and inside out! Let's see how the gurus see the world from their topsy-turvy position when they stand on their heads.

Guru's brain projects reality
Fact:
The real, outside world is reflected onto our brain through the senses, enabling us to learn about reality and to study it.

Topsy-turvy: 
Fantasy is projected from the guru's brain onto the outside world --  much like a movie projector throwing images onto a screen. The world is whatever the guru thinks or says it is, and you'd better believe it ....

God needs man's protection!
Fact:
The truth is that the all-powerful God strangely needs protection by man. Otherwise he's as helpless as a new-born babe. In fact, God is such a helpless spook that he even can't ruffle a baby's downy hair!

Fiction:
God is the most powerful being in the world who created the universe and mankind. He is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and omni-everything else.

Fiction is fact
Fact:
Supernaturalism, a.k.a. spookism, is a blatant and unalloyed superstition and a fiction. Since religions are invariably based on spookism, that unmistakably makes religions a superstition.

Topsy-turvy: 
Supernaturalism is the truth and foundation of religions. Supernatural beings, called spooks in common parlance, such as God and angels, exist in this world. To have religion, you must believe in them. Or pretend to believe?

Believing is seeing
Fact: 
Seeing is believing, as they say.

Topsy-turvy: 
Believing is seeing. Delusion, as long as it's religious, is true and real. And you'd better believe it ...

The creator is the created!
Fact: 
Man created imaginary beings called gods as well as religions by the thousands since the dawn of humanity. Gods, including the super spook simply named God, are therefore the children of man.

Topsy-turvy: 
The boogeyman called God created man and everything else in the universe! We are the children of God.
(It's like saying Mickey Mouse created Walt Disney, Disneyland and the universe.)

Word of man is "word of God"
Fact:
The guru puts words -- his raves and rants and other stuff he scavenges from elsewhere -- in the boogeyman's mouth, and proclaims it as the "word of God." He and his sycophants also get this written down and call it the holy book, to be cited and parroted.

Topsy-turvy: 
The guru demands that the "word of God" (read: the guru's words) must be obeyed and parroted to all and sundry and threatens those who question it with terrible consequences, here and in the hereafter.

God-fearing man or man-fearing god?
Fact:
God is a figment of man's imagination and will unerringly say anything that his creator wants -- as long as the creator is doing the talking. Thus we have an obedient "man-fearing God!"

Topsy-turvy:
Gurus love a "God-fearing man."  They can cite the "good book" (which the guru and his sycophants said or wrote) and make him obey and do God's (read: the guru's) bidding -- even commit murder of the guru's opponents, or risk their lives to defend God (again, read: the guru). In fact, there are no "God-fearing men" -- only man-fearing men around.


Science and religion great pals
Fact:
Science and religion are mutually exclusive and diametrically opposed and as far apart as the earth and the sky. Any sane and honest thinker can see that clearly and easily.

Topsy-turvy:        
Science and religion get along just fine, thank you. Never mind the superstitious humbug about the existence of spooks (such as God, the devil, the soul etc.), creation myths, afterlife, the other-world, imaginary places (Heaven, Hell), reincarnation, rebirth, etc.

Seems like fishermen, carpenters, shrine-keepers and peripatetic peddlers of household goods know more about the world than all the scientists put together!

A two-timing mind
Insightful people explain that this amazing and contradictory attitude is possible due to the compartmentalized way of thinking: religion is held low-key and put inside the mental compartment marked PRIVATE & PERSONAL; the realistic and scientific views of the world are put in the other compartment marked PUBLIC. So now they can have their cake and eat it too.

But sometimes there are glitches. Things don't always work out this way. Things in the PUBLIC compartment tend to seep into the other side, like reverse osmosis, and clean up the PRIVATE & PERSONAL compartment, ridding it of impurities. That's a time of personal crisis of belief for the self-deceivers!

You only need to read the confessions of former priests who couldn't indulge in lying and deception any more and moved out from the "House of God" into the "House of Humanity". No more playing the shepherd-and-sheeple game.


A bum was munching on some stale, discarded dog biscuits at a garbage dump. When passers-by stared at him, he growled: "Just because it's not fit for a dog doesn't mean it's not fit for humans".

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They say religion is a compass for morality and for just about everything else under the sun.

Me:
Excuse me, there's a spook in your compass! It's wobbling and rattling; north is going south, and east is going west, and it's out of control. Good luck to your navigation! Hope you can make it to your destination! (Me)

The shepherds and the sheeple: First they fleece the woolly-headed, then they keep them in line with hooks and sheep dogs, and finally they drive them towards meat-processing centers and convert the sheep into lamb chops and lamb kebabs! (Me)