WHAT'S IN A NAME?

"The Religious Curmudgeon isn't religious" bleated Robert in a comment on my last post.

Well, so what?

SO WHAT

RELIGIOUS
adjective
relating to or believing in a religion.
"both men were deeply religious and moralistic"
synonyms: devout, pious, reverent, believing, godly, God-fearing, dutiful, saintly, holy, prayerful, churchgoing, practising, faithful, devoted, committed
"he was a very religious person"

Well, so what?

It's true that I don't believe in a religion. I'm not deeply religious but I think that I am moralistic. It's fair to say though that I'm not devout, pious, reverent, believing, godly, God-fearing, dutiful, saintly, holy, prayerful, churchgoing, practising, faithful, devoted, and committed so maybe, dare I say it, that Robert is correct.

There's always a first time.

Yesterday some christians put a booklet in my letterbox.

This "diverse group of christian churches from throughout New Zealand came together to commemorate the 200-year anniversary of the arrival of christianity in New Zealand and the beginning of a 'hope-filled' bicultural partnership with Maori.'' 

Or so it says on the back page.

What a load of codswallop. I don't believe that 200 years ago the poorly educated, impoverished and narrow-minded christians were thinking of a 'bicultural partnership with Maori'. They were capturing souls, racking them up like kids did in that stupid Pokemon Go craze of a couple of years ago. That and 'collecting' the land that Maori lived on.

HOPE FOR ALL is the title and it is the fifth in a series. This 2019 booklet has the two themes of:

1. Our attitude towards the poor (charity) and 
2. Women's equality with men (a 125th anniversary).

OK, both of these are worthwhile but my worry is that these have been appropriated by these christians who present them as if it is only christians who can deliver charity and provide equality for women.

Bollocks!

Look don't get me wrong. I approve of most of the christians 'social' messages and actually live my life within their parameters but what really pisses me off is that anything good is appropriated by the christians and wrapped up in religious mumbo jumbo and, particularly with the catholics, history is reinterpreted to suggest that Jesus invented it all. They conveniently gloss over the fact that the churches appropriated Easter from pagan Brits (Eastron), Jews (Passover), Sumerians (Inanna) and many other cultures and religions.

OK I'm not religious.

SO WHAT!

RUN FOR THE SHADOWS

GOLDEN YEARS WOP WOP WOP

Robert has been evangelising again. I wonder if Christianity is like the pyramid schemes of AMWAY and Golden Products where the middle man, in this case Robert, has to build up a big customer base to shovel his shit product to in order to make profit.

In the late 1960s a cousin of mine, Neil, wanted to get rich quick and got into Golden Products. This was a pyramid scheme scam based on household cleaning products which were basically overpriced rubbish. Poor old Neil. against the extended family's warnings went ahead and signed up. He was given some grand title as a distributor, lots of certificates and a garage full of cleaning crap that proved to be perishable. All for the contents of his bank account bolstered by some borrowing. Of course Neil couldn't sign up any gullible sub-distributors, couldn't get any direct customers and for the next 10 years tried to give away the shit as birthday and Christmas presents.

Maybe Robert has a shed load of Catholic paraphernalia to go with his head-full of Catholic and Christian nonsense?

Here's Robert's latest post:

SOME CATHOLIC NONSENSE

And here (as no doubt he will delete this post and possibly the whole blog soon) is the transcript:

So what will heaven be like?
We'll go to heaven first in spirit. The body will follow later.
Then we will be in heaven body and soul like Jesus walking around on earth after His resurrection. Remember how he could walk through walls?
Heaven will not be a place just for saints.
You will have to work really hard not to go there and to get there to boot.
God "Please join me in heaven".
Person "No".
God "Please join me in heaven".
Person "No".
God "OK I'll ask you again later on".
Heaven will be like being at Sunday Mass forever.
There will be choirs singing. You will be singing too. Jesus will be part of you too.

Are you ready to sign up?