b121 (12.6-1.1014): her pants were bible-belted

her pants were bible-belted [i]
by u. r. cold

her pants were bible-belted
her thoughts were in a bind
her words flowed-out (and left no doubt) a bound & belted mind
 
(it’s as if by design)
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·       how can someone be sooooooo sure of something that they haven’t ever researched or truly contemplated?
 
·       cult-ure explains why individuals fail to question their own beliefs, fail to question their elders, and fail to question what outsiders might (plainly) see as insane thoughts, such as:
 
1.     why would an all-knowing, all-loving god (1) create flawed beings, then (2) get mad at some of them for being flawed, and then (3) murder all of them (including innocent women, children, babies, unborn babies, bambi, kittens and puppies) because they were flawed?  why?  …and… (if he did), why didn’t he fix the problem on his second try?
 
2.     why would an all-powerful god determine that the best way to ‘forgive’ sins is to (1) have an only-son (Jesus), born by a virgin via immaculate conception, then (2) allow for his son to suffer a bloody crucifixion, die, and rise… and then (3) inspire men to decree that the only path to forgiveness (and heaven, instead of hell) is to believe in Jesus as one’s savior… based-upon really, really, really bad evidence?
 
3.     why is god a ‘he’?  what makes him masculine?  does he have a penis?  why?  to impregnate 12-year-old virgins?  why didn’t he have more than (only) one son?  why has Jesus been “coming back, and soon” for over 2000 years?  what does “soon” mean?
 
4.     how is god a ‘father’ to himself (his son, who is also “the one-and-only” god), and to himself… the holy spirit?  why is he three-in-one, yet one, yet both father and son at the same time?
 
5.     why is the evidence of god based upon an male-edited, male-translated book of his-stories (written by men) – yet written down only after decades of word-of-mouth retelling of campfire stories that were originally told by fisher-men?  

6. why would an all-knowing god  send his only son to ‘minister’ -- via virgin-birth, in the backwaters of israel, in the year BCE 4 through AD 33?
 
7.   why does god not simply show-up now, on fox news, and tell us what he wants… himself?  there are only two possibilities: either (1) he can’t, or (2) he won’t.
 
why, when you can’t answer these questions without making something-up and (eventually) closing with “well, no one could ever understand the mind of god” – why do you then proceed to tell me what god thinks, what god says, and what god wants?
 
the only answer that makes any sense (of course) is that men made-up the stories, and men benefit from the beliefs.  how do men benefit?
 
·       do religions profess moral codes that help to regulate/control behavior?  yes.
·       do religions generate $$$?  yes.  follow the money trail.
·       do religions have power?  yes.  can religious beliefs sway votes?
·       do religions allow govern-men-ts to maintain control by having citizens control themselves?  yes.
·       do individuals gain power by convincing others to believe what they believe?
·       …and on and on and on…                 
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[i] martino, j. (12.6-1.2024). her pants were bible-belted. book 121: opportunity (on deck). © 2024 by j. martino.