People have a RIGHT to believe what they want. But, it has no place in society. Faith is an enemy, because you have to “take” something without evidence. Faith -has- to be blind, or else it is not faith.

I found your blog through a google blog search.

“From the Muslims to the Indians — they have a right to practice these superstitions and traditions. And if according to their religion, their superstitions, their traditions, it says thinking a certain behavior is wrong, thus furthering a divide for unity, then that’s their right to feel or think that way and in my opinion they’d be FOOLS not to follow their own beliefs.”
I disagree strongly. They’d be fools not to be critical of their own beliefs. Belief has nothing to do with anything truly … truthful. You either KNOW something through evidence, or you don’t know it because of lack of evidence. Belief sometimes appears to be a gray area, but it’s really accepting something for minnimal reason (According to our understandings today).

“Religion and faith and traditions aren’t the enemy.”
They are an enemy to unity, not if they exist, but if they insist on affecting society.
So, for example, one country having Christmas as an official holiday when there are Muslims, Jews, and many others living there.
True unity is recognising that these things really are barriers to unity.

Your opinion is your right. And I agree that it’s not the religion that is the “enemy” (to some extent) it’s the establishment and the people within it.

But honestly, I don’t know anyone who has critically analysed their “faith” and come out still holding onto it.

Also, I’m not “hurt” — I’m not a Christian or even have a faith myself. I just believe that people have the right to worship what they want. From the Muslims to the Indians — they have a right to practice these superstitions and traditions. And if according to their religion, their superstitions, their traditions, it says thinking a certain behavior is wrong, thus furthering a divide for unity, then that’s their right to feel or think that way and in my opinion they’d be FOOLS not to follow their own beliefs.

And let’s not forget it’s their RIGHT to believe and feel however they want.

I don’t know how you found this blog, but if it was through a topic board at ATS (Above Top Secret), then you’d know a good point I made for leaving people alone with their own traditions:

The Lakota Indians… And I quote: “You know, I read something earlier about how there is an epidemic in suicides in Native American children — one of the reasons the article gave? Lack of their faith.”

Why are young Lakota killing themselves? - South Dakota reservation’s suicide rate said to be among highest in world

Religion and faith and traditions aren’t the enemy.

They’re simply out-dated traditions now. People have the right to believe them if they want to, but they serve no value in reality, or society.

They’re just traditions…superstitions.

The image you’re reffering to … assumedly the bit before the Bill Hicks skit?
If you really listen, the person speaking when that image is up (forget his name) is talking about the universe as a singular community. The world as one organism of plants, animals, elements, humans etc.

The image is merely a way of symolising human connection.

I get the feeling you’re hurt by an “insult” to religious faith? But in reality, religion is superstition. Parents DO indoctrinate their children, its an outdated way of living.

For example, to be a true christian, youd have to be honest and deny many aspects of science, genetic understand, among other things.

As for a monetary based system — or doing away with one — I think that if we could consciously reach that level of giving, and kindness, and humanity, and oneness all at the same time or around the same time it would be a beautiful thing. The fact is we can’t. And the fact is.. as long as there is a limited supply of things in the world, there will be a price on these things. We need an overhaul of the monetary based system to make it more fair, to make it more for the people, instead of the central banks.

The problem is, my friend, you and I are too idealistic. In different ways of course.

I dislike that they talk about superstitions as negative in the movie — and I dislike how they talk about teaching your children your religion “indoctrination”, in the negative sense that they did.

I should re-watch this movie though, but it seemed like they WERE pushing their own religious agenda onto us near the end of the movie.

So, the idea of the Venus Project isn’t to “remove” religion by saying “YOU ARENT ALLOWED TO BELIEVE THAT! etc” … but just that is has no place in the running of society. It has to be a personal thing.

The people talking about the Illuminati symbolism are just seeing things that aren’t there. A movie about ending superstition doesn’t intentionally include that sort of symbolism. You have to interpret what you see according to the message.