Christian leaders teach Christian children that they are automatically guaranteed Heaven because they believe in Christ as their Savior. I, on the other hand, raised in a nonreligious family, was taught I was going to hell by Catholic clergy during my formative years from First through Fifth Grades. I was a sweet, shy, loving little boy, but all they saw was a heretic child and, in the name of God, they made me suffer for it. I did not confide in anyone, not even family about what they were doing to me. This is not unusual with children being abused by authoritarian, religious figures. The most important lesson I took away from those years of mental, emotional and physical abuse was that the world I lived in revolved around one book—the Bible—and that unless I became a Christian my life would always be on the receiving end of powerful, judgmental, unforgiving, irrational Christian wrath. This was a dilemma, because on one hand I knew that I did not want to be forever hated and cast-to-hell by Christians, but on the other hand I knew that I would rather die first than join that club full of religious bullies.


Finally, in my mid-teens, I woke up to how deeply troubled I was towards Catholic clergy. I had such unresolved anger that I knew, I knew I would end up beating the hell out of some priest or maybe worse if I did not take steps to overcome. I knew I could not tell anyone the things going on inside my mind. I saw that the only rational avenue for healing was to make myself study the Bible, to better understand my enemy. I especially wanted to see where Jesus said that only they go to Heaven, but instead discovered that they were a big bunch of liars.


The theology of Corporate Christianity and the Message of Christ are fundamentally opposite. The Way of Christ is about the fearless Spirit—The Way, Truth and Life of Selfless Love—whereas Christianity is a business built upon marketing fears that only it has the power to save the world from. The fear it covets the most is the one that best secures its control over the masses and rakes in the money—the fear of hell. And what is its solution to that fear? That only Christians or Christ-confessors go to Heaven and everyone else goes to hell.


Selfish religion, like a schoolyard bully, deliberately targets the littlest children for the express purpose of building fear in their vulnerable minds so that they know their place in this world is to be submissively obedient to the bully. Selfish religion rejects the revelation that the Spirit of God knows no fear. Fear is not the fruit of Selfless Love ('God'), but the fruit of selfishness (anti-God; 'Satan'). The bully-institution of selfish religion knows that the most effective way to instill fear into humans for a lifetime is to get 'em when they're young. If they can instill their fears solidly enough, those fear-manipulated children will never give up their forced membership, WHICH IS THE WHOLE POINT! The self-sanctified, holier-than-thou world of Corporate Christianity is a well-oiled, highly-sophisticated machine whose greatest victims are little children, to start.


We are creatures of the mind. In early childhood, bullies in the form of grown adults dressed in religious garments carrying rosaries and crucifixes tried and tried to get me to believe them, but I could not, because what they wanted me to believe made no sense. It makes no sense that God, who created me, would throw me away for being a loving, good boy just because I was not ritually baptized in some church. It makes no sense because it is not true, unlike Christ's Message, which makes complete sense and is perfectly beautiful. The Way to His Father's Kingdom is traveled by ALL that live to produce the fruits of Selfless Love ('God') over selfishness ('Satan'), regardless of religion, but you will NEVER hear that taught by Christianity's greatest false prophets—the Catholic popes, Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Robert Schuller, Joel Osteen, Rick Warren, John Hagee, T.D. Jakes, Paul Crouch, Creflo Dollar, Larry Huch, Rod Parsley, Earl Paulk, Paula White, etc.


A most popular teaching within Corporate Christianity is that the only way humans get to Heaven begins and ends with publicly confessing "I believe in Jesus as my Savior." Nothing else matters, ultimately. This mindset denies The Way of the Spirit of Christ for a greater love of verbally confessing belief in Christ. By putting the idolatry of some literal, graven image of Christ ABOVE the Spirit of Christ (Spirit of Selfless Love), people make themselves into Christ-idolaters. As far as Christ-idolaters are concerned, you can be a rapist-torturer-killer like the BTK Killer—who was a lifelong Christian and devoted churchgoer—and you still get Heaven. Christ-idolaters root for the killer in prison who confesses Christ as Savior but condemn-to-hell the loving non-Christian who lives next door.


None of us burping, farting humans is God, yet the world is filled with holier-than-thou religionists who sit their hypocritical, sinful asses upon the Judgment Throne of God, judging themselves and their kind to Heaven and judging everyone else to hell. I will no longer break bread with those types, as I cannot stomach sitting across the table from people who condemn me to hell because I will not submit to their lying, hateful, warring religion. If I was bleeding on the side of the road I would rather die than accept their help.


How are Christ-idolaters any different from those vile extremist Muslims or Zionist Jews? All three groups are lost in holier-than-thou-ism. All three have failed their God of Abraham miserably and could not be further from the Spirit of God in their all-consuming love for separatist, fearful, superstitious, idolatrous, mystery-laden religion.


Religion and Spirit are 2 different things entirely unless one's religion IS THE SPIRIT. The Church of God on Earth is not a worldly thing created of stone or made of hands, but is a spiritual congregation built upon Selfless Love. There is not one separatist (holier-than-thou) Jew, Christian or Muslim that believes this. Not one—because that is the inherent nature of their religious separatism. Every separatist will tell you that God does not ultimately care about your unselfish goodness, but cares only that you willingly submit to their religion. God is their God and belongs to no one else, and Heaven is their Heaven. Christian, Jew and Muslim separatists are the same people in the sense that they all fall into the same bottomless pit of selfish religion. They all think they going to Heaven by way of their churches, synagogues and mosques made of stone, but they are sorely incorrect, having rejected the most important "stone" of all.


Matthew 22:42, 44
42. The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner.
The "stone" is the stable, solid rock foundation of the Spirit of God (The Way, Truth and Life of Selfless Love) as opposed to the sand foundation of human selfishness. With or without the Bible to tell us, we humans have the evident, conscious, free-will ability to choose to produce the fruits of Selfless Love or the fruits of selfishness, and to know the difference. The One Way to Everlasting Peace comes by mutual companionship in the responsibility of personifying or building the Spirit (Selfless Love; 'God') over the anti-Spirit (selfishness; 'Satan'). We are to be fitly-framed temples of the Living God, building our temples upon the stone foundation of Selfless Love and not the sand foundation of selfishness. The stone that the builders of Bible-based religions rejected is the cornerstone of God's One Church.

44. And whosoever shall fall upon this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Those who submit to the Selfless Spirit ('fall upon this stone') shall be broken of their selfishness. Those who reject the Selfless Spirit shall be rejected by the Spirit and rendered powerless, "ground into powder." God will not be mocked, for as you sow, so shall you reap. God wants us to come to His Kingdom, but no one can tread The Way to His Kingdom for you, but you. Physician, heal thyself!


Listen not to recruiters of religion, for they are deceived and self-deceived. If they are followers of the God of Abraham they shall pass no judgment-to-Heaven or judgment-to-hell upon you for your religion or lack of, but shall know you by your Goodness (God-ness) and leave eternal judgment to God, to be executed on Judgment Day.


When will these holier-than-thou types SEE that they are not the solution, but the problem? When will the mainstream media and the world WAKE UP to this? The destruction on September 11, 2001 was born of the never-ending separatism between Jews, Christians and Muslims. Hear Bin Laden's reasoning behind that attack (http://www.representativepress.org/Motivesfor911.html). It is intrinsically about America's involvement with Israel against the Palestinians. Walid Shoebat, once a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, revealed that Muslims define the warring in Israel as a religious war against them, conducted by Christians and Jews. The United States government knows all this and more, yet continues to market itself as a Christian government with an undying allegiance to everything-Israel. It seems that our presidents, to get elected, are required to show the world that they are publicly praying, Christ-confessing Christians when, IN FACT, Jesus Himself judges such people hypocrites and makes it crystal-clear that not all Christ-confessors shall have Heaven, because not all do God's Will (that is, not all teach and personify Selfless Love over selfishness). Jesus would prefer we be heretics who pour out Selfless Love upon the world rather than priests and religionists who do not. We see how Jews say they believe Jesus is a great teacher, and how Muslims are instructed by the Qu'ran to honor and follow Jesus' teachings, and how Christians believe Jesus is their Savior, but there is not a leader among them teaching Jesus' Message, which has absolutely nothing to do with their separatist, worldly religions.


We Americans are currently caught up in a tidal wave of fear over our failing economy, but we are asleep to the greater problem of the world's failing Abrahamic religions. If America's dominantly Christian government does not stop its Israel-idolatry and meddling, allowing that established, sovereign nation to run its own affairs, the American people will suffer far worse than 9/11. It does not take a prophet to see that.


The creation of the State of Israel in 1948 was not the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy, but man's forcing the much-awaited Biblical prophecy known as the "Restoration of Israel"—a prophecy that was not supposed to be fulfilled by man, but delivered by God. Though Israel is literally called the "Holy Land," the land upon which people tread is only as holy as the people treading upon it. Currently, the Holy Land is among the unholiest places on Earth, as it is overrun by separatist Jewish, Christian and Muslim hypocrites and idolaters. If these people could manage to come together to even follow the First Commandment—loving God (Spirit of Selfless Love) before all else—peace would reign among them. But no! Selfish religion loves to build and worship monuments engraved with the Ten Commandments but will not follow a damn one of them.


If you call yourself a believer in the God of Abraham then stop self-exalting. All who self-exalt shall be abased, says Jesus. What is more self-exalting than to judge yourself and your kind to Heaven? All who judge themselves to Heaven by their religion are, in fact, by default, judging everyone who is not of their religion to hell. As we judge others for what we perceive to be their sins, so too shall we be judged likewise for our own.


If you call yourself a believer in the God of Abraham then heed Christ's instruction and stop praying in churches and the public square. When will American presidents put away the lies of Corporate Christianity? Why can't they pray in solitary privacy, like in a closet, as Jesus explicitly instructs? Obama calls himself a Christian, but Jesus calls him a hypocrite (Matthew 6:5-6). The televised Christian religiosity shown by American presidents only serves to reinforce the Muslim belief that America's involvement with Israel is a religious war: the Christians and Jews against the Muslims. Our last and current vice-presidents have warned the American people of more Muslim terrorism here in the United States, possibly including nuclear or biological weaponry. And so, with common sense and a rational mind, I say to America's leaders: For America's safety, keep your religion private and get it OUT of our government's public affairs and, just as importantly, get the hell OUT of Israel!


The Bible says that humanity is divided into the Jews and the Gentiles and that the Jews are God's Chosen Ones.  It is commonplace to think that a "Jew" is someone of Jewish ancestry or religion and to think that a "Gentile" is a non-Jew. But the Bible gives an entirely different definition of Jew and Gentile. A "Jew" has nothing to do with one's bloodline (Jewish ancestry) or one's religion (Judaism), but a Jew is one who honors the Living Spirit (Selfless Love) over dead literalism (literalist religion). In other words, a Jew is one who treads the true religion of The Way of Selfless Love over the false religion of selfishness. A "Gentile" is the opposite. But you will NEVER hear this marvelous revelation taught from the great leaders of Judaism, Christianity or Islam, though it is right there in scripture. Why? Because they refuse to let go of literalism and instead wrap their minds around the spiritual definition of "Jew" and "Gentile." To literalists, a "Jew" is defined by one's bloodline or religion and "Israel" is a plot of dirt on the Eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. The blind that follow the blind do not see that a "Jew" is one who produces the fruits of Selfless Love over selfishness and that "Israel" is a spiritual estate of Oneness with God.  All those that walk The Way of Selfless Love are God's Jews, and the land they walk upon is holy land ('Israel'), no matter where their feet are planted.


Interestingly, the 1,683-year history of Corporate Christianity, beginning with the birth of the Roman Catholic Church, is filled with seemingly endless accounts of persecuting and slaughtering Jews. So why has all this suddenly changed within the last century? Why has Christianity's brutal rejection of the Jews turned into a sickening, covetous love for everything-Israel? Idolatry! It is all about Jerusalem-idolatry, specifically regarding the Temple Mount—the place where Jesus is supposed to return—but not before World War III, initiated by the never-ending religious separatism between Christians, Jews and Muslims, tears the world apart.


Whatever happened to "God is love?"


It got hijacked by selfish religion and its selfish followers.


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Best known for his role in the eighties television series, Growing Pains, actor and evangelist Kirk Cameron spoke to Bill O'Reilly about the issue of marriage on The O'Reilly Factor (aired November 18; Fox News Channel). Here's part of it.

God is the Spirit of Selfless Love that lives and grows within all who live and grow in His Spirit.

The greatest false teaching of Corporate Christianity is its religious separatism, where only those who "believe in Christ" or confess in Him as their Savior go to Heaven. This conclusion is reached by plucking John 3:16 and Matthew 10:32 out of the context of the Gospels and ignoring the rest of what Christ has to say on the matter. He tells us that He shall not know all those who confess belief in Him, but only those who serve the will of His Father (Matthew 7:21). In the Parable of the Good Samaritan, He tells us He would rather we be heretics (Samaritans were judged as 'heretics' by the Israelites) who pour out Selfless Love upon sufferers than holy priests and religionists who do not (Luke 10:30-37). He even tells us that those who speak against Him (those who deny Him) shall be forgiven if they do not deny His Father's will (Matthew 12:31-33).

How many times does Jesus have to tell us that The Way to His Father's Kingdom does not come by the religious work of confessing belief in Him? We hear the mantra, "Faith, Not Works," yet Christianity insists that Heaven awaits only those who do its religious works (baptism, confession, membership, tithing, etc.).

But the Bible tells us that all who confess in Him shall have Heaven, so if literal confession is not The Way then what? The truth lies in the spiritual substance of the word "confession." Truest confession is not justified by words, but by living (personifying; giving life to) the Spirit.

We know that God is love and that God dwells within those who dwell in love. The result of pouring out Selfless Love is that God lives within us. The confession in Jesus as the Son of God produces the same result, meaning that the confession in Jesus is about dwelling in love. It ultimately has nothing to do with saying, "I believe in Jesus as my Savior," but everything to do with personifying the Spirit of Jesus. All who walk The Way of Selfless Love confess Jesus Christ, regardless of religion.

We often hear, "Jesus Saves," but it is the Spirit of Jesus that saves. Without the Spirit in Him, Jesus would not have been resurrected—He would not have been the Christ. If the Spirit that raised Jesus lives within us then we too shall quickened unto God (Romans 8:11). It is the Spirit that saves.

How do we build the Spirit within us?

By pouring it out upon the world.

As we sow, so shall we reap.

Corporate Christianity teaches people to ritually pray publicly, but Jesus tells us not to be like the hypocrites, instructing us to pray in private.

There has been some talk about America's public schools allowing religious children to have their "prayer time," citing the importance of special prayer times for Muslim children. Islam widely teaches the critical importance of rigid prayer schedules that require followers to pray in the direction of Mecca five times a day (praying at dawn, midday, afternoon, sunset and evening). The Qu'ran says differently, holding no critical importance to ritual prayer at all, but instructs followers to pour out Selfless Love.

"Prayer" has nothing to do with a ritual. We are to "pray without ceasing" (First Thessalonians 5:17). As it is impossible to ritually pray without ceasing, we turn to the spiritual substance of the word "prayer" and understand that it is about a way of life. We are "in prayer" when we are aligned with the Spirit of God. We are to keep the Selfless Spirit at the forefront of everything we think, say and do, for only then do we pray without ceasing.

Corporate Christianity teaches that "tithing" is about pouring money into its churches, some insisting that the money for tithing is "God's money." What does God need with money? The "currency" of God is not cash, but Spirit. Jesus tells us that it is not what we give, but the Spirit with which we give it (Mark 12:38-44). Money or not, we are tithing before God when we pour out His Spirit upon this world fraught with human selfishness.

We see the ritual of swearing upon the Bible in courts and in marriage ceremonies, yet that very book tells us not to swear (vow) upon anything, but to make our yes "yes" and our no "no." In other words, we are to be truthful (James 5:12).

Do you see how scripture has been misinterpreted, deliberately or not, to serve those in power and control?  Next to religious separatism is anti-Semitism, born of Matthew 27:25.  "The Jews killed Jesus" is the great lie used to justify the persecution and slaughtering of Jews for the better part of Christianity's 1,682 year history. But what about Romans 2:25-29? It is revealed that a Jew is not a Jew by ancestry or religion but is one who honors the living Spirit (spiritual substance of the word) over the dead letter (literalism; the literal word). A "Gentile," on the other hand, honors the dead letter over the living Spirit. Just as there are Christian Jews, there are Christian Gentiles. Similarly, there are Atheist Jews and Atheist Gentiles.

There are "Jews" and "Gentiles" of all walks of life. The crowd of Jews that wanted Jesus dead were literally Jews by their ancestry and religion, but were spiritually Gentiles. It was not the Jews, the followers of The Way of God's Spirit, that wanted Jesus dead, but the Gentiles, the deniers of The Way.

Nowadays, Corporate Christianity especially loves Israel, widely preaching to the world that the creation of the State of Israel (called the 'restoration of Israel') was the fulfillment of the Biblical prophecy given in the Parable of the Fig Tree (Matthew 24:32-33). Sadly, but not surprisingly, Luke 21:29-30 is ignored, where we learn that this prophecy is not just about the "fig tree" (Israel) that experiences a rebirth, but all the nations of the world ('all the trees'). As that was clearly not the case in 1948, the "fig tree" prophecy was not fulfilled.

Indeed, the "fig tree putting forth leaves" does refer to the rebirth of Israel, but not to its becoming a geopolitical nation. It is about a mass, worldwide Awakening to the Spirit of God within people from all countries ('all the trees'). They are the world's Jews (the followers of The Way). Collectively, they comprise the "nation" of God (the 'restoration of Israel'), a nation not bound by geographic borders, but by the Spirit. The Temple of God is not made of stone (not a worldly system of religion), but of Spirit.

"Israel"—the Promised Land—is not firstly a geographic area, but a way of life that is entered into when we enter into The Way of God. The only reason why it took the Israelites forty years to travel the relatively short distance from Egypt (the Land of Idolatry) to the Promised Land is because it took them that long to grow out of idolatry (selfishness). The Promise of Salvation is upon those who promise themselves in the Spirit that leads to Salvation—they are the Jews in the Promised Land, which is not about living upon that sliver of dirt on the Eastern edge of the Mediterranean.

Corporate Christianity and Zionists teach that the State of Israel belongs to the Jews because God gave that land to the Jews. No. The Israelites earned the Promised Land by finally growing true and faithful to the will of God after wandering in the wilderness for forty years. And just as they earned their entrance, so too did they earn their exit. In 586 BC, due to their greater love of idolatry, the Israelites were captured and enslaved by greater idolaters (the Babylonians). As you sow, so shall you reap. The true restoration of Israel and the fulfillment of the Parable of the Fig Tree has not yet happened.

The Abrahamic religions deny First Corinthians 4:20, where we learn that the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power, meaning that Salvation is not by the dead letter of the word, like literally confessing belief in God, but by the living Spirit of the word, by personifying His power (Spirit of Selfless Love).

Just some last thoughts, having been raised with so much traditionalist Christianity drummed into my inquiring mind. We are not to make or worship before graven images, so where does scripture instruct us to create billions of images of Jesus to spread around the whole world? Do we have a photo of Jesus or a description of His face that we should know His image? Did he really have European features? When are we instructed to put a cross atop buildings and call them "churches?" If Jesus had not been crucified but beaten with a club, would the club be the global symbol for Club Christian? Would we see a big ol' club atop every church? Would we see mini clubs hanging off gold chains instead of mini crosses? Where are we instructed to create a "holy" day and teach that it is the birthday of the Christ? Where does it reveal He was born on December 25th? Why do so many Christians fundamentally lie to themselves and their children and the world about Biblical scripture if they believe that the Bible holds the key to their Salvation?

Does Jesus tell us that the entirety of the Bible ('all the law and the prophets') boils down to confessing belief in Him? No. He tells us it boils down to following the First Commandment—to love God (Spirit of Selfless Love) before all else. If every Jew, Christian and Muslim followed just the First Commandment, peace would reign among them.

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