Religion Separates Man From God

RELIGION SEPARATES MAN FROM GOD

MICHAEL MORAIS BARNETT

Table of Contents

Copyright 2015

Intro: I didn’t come from nowhere

Foreword:

Chapter 55: Mechanism, Recognising God increases Political negativity

Chapter 54: Recognising God

Chapter 53: I wish I was an Atheist

Chapter 52: I am an Atheist

Chapter 51: Leave Muslims alone

Chapter 50: Prayer Yoga

Chapter 49: I’m Black, you're White

Chapter 48: You're Female, I’m Male

Chapter 47: I eat meat, you do not

Chapter 46: You're good, I’m bad

Chapter 45: I’m unwell you're better

Chapter 44: The more you know the closer to God

Chapter 43: The freer from God the more dependent on humanity

Chapter 42: Guilt makes people speak, innocence makes people write

Chapter 41: You drink, I don’t

Chapter 40: Stop fretting about economic growth

Chapter 39: I am hoping reading 22 chapters about freedom from God will leave you as innocent as a new born baby

Chapter 38: Violence Separates Man From God

Chapter 37: The Age of the 15 year old Arch Bishop, Imam, Rabbi, Sikh Temple Minister, and Temple Minister

Chapter 36: A Book about confusion

Chapter 35: The Day I Stopped Praying, The Day I stopped reading the Bible

Chapter 34: You’ve changed, I miss being Free

Chapter 33: Religion for Dummies

Chapter 32: Staying Alive

Chapter 31: Human by Human Annihilation

Chapter 30: Understanding healing and prayer

Chapter 29: Creflo Dollar Ministries

Chapter 28: Express yourself Recruitment Day

Chapter 27: Of course I'm wrong

Chapter 26: Religion Separates Man From God, increasing mental illness and violence.

Chapter 25: CV Training

Chapter 24: Intervention

Chapter 23: Review July 2016

Chapter 22: Looking for ISIS

Chapter 21: Dear President,

Chapter 20: Why does the Stoat Play

Chapter 19: We are afraid of it and our fear is a source of aggression

Chapter 18: ISIS

Chapter 17: Reverse

Chapter 16: Gary Inline

Chapter 15: Three strikes

Chapter 14: Reading

Chapter 13: Should dark suffer at the hands of Religion

Chapter 12: A.C. Grayling: The God argument

Chapter 11: Killing suggests we are not of this earth

Chapter 10: God Loser, God Fighter - Human Defender

Chapter 9: Three days at Fabric Express

Chapter 8: Aliens amongst us

Chapter 7: Pain Recognition Yoga PRY

Chapter 6: December 2016

Chapter 5: Do humble people go on to kill

Chapter 4: Love has no voice

Chapter 3: Sleep Splitting

Chapter 2: Resting from god, increases consciousness

Chapter 1: Human Sacrifice

Reflection:

Does Anyone Know Where The Prologue Is?

Appendices:

References:

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Intro: I didn’t come from nowhere

I'm trying to buy us all some time when I say......

I have some bad news, sometime this year I expect a Nuclear bomb to go off. I'm sorry that, that which could avoid this has come to me, too late to help either me or the world from suffering a Nuclear, bomb blast. What has made it likely that a Nuclear bomb will explode this year, you guessed it the Internet. Why have we run out of time to stop the Internet being used to explode a Nuclear bomb. We have simply not seen the threat. What is the mechanism, the internet allows 24/7 exposure to Religion. So what, we have 24/7 Religion so what. Nothing if Religion makes us more humane, less violent. What if Religion has the opposite effect? What if Religion in this internet age, makes us as Godless as you can get? What then? Then I’m afraid to say, 7 billion people will never believe you. It’s already too late. It’s already too late. No one believes me and the world is in meltdown, literally.

Even if 7 billion people read a book that regularly says with almost the turn of every page, that Religion makes humans more Godless: 7 billion will not believe you, it’s almost impossible for them to believe me. Not until the first Nuclear bomb goes off, then the second, the hundredth. But by then like I said, it’s already too late.

But what if we.... I’m sorry it’s already too late.

‘My God, what have we done.’

The nightmare continues. I become that which I fight against, typical me. I become fear and anger. This book is about blinding fear and terrifying anger. No dreams are remembered again by the time I’m writing: probably because all hope has left me.

It’s a cold foggy morning and I’m standing alone in Wednesfield. I’m not waiting for anyone, I’m just standing. I don’t try to have context, I don’t try to not look suspicious, intimidated or intimidating.

My answer, I hope I’m right. I hope I press the button. Kneel down and pray with me, read some scripture. Go to your Religious buildings, help me to be right. When they offer you the Religious Microchip Implant: don’t be angry, don’t be afraid, be Godless just like me. Join me in Godlessness. Don’t be afraid.

Let’s all kneel down and pray, it will help me to be right. I’m always right, I like being right. Pray with me.

Foreword

Once you feel you have absorbed the main theme of this book, wherever that theme re emerges in the many letters and conversations in this book: step back into your own world, and pause, and think about, and reflect on how intertwined Religion has become in our history and culture. And if you agree with me, think about what you should do today to untangle yourself from the Slavery of Religion or the Apathy of Atheism.

If you are reading this book in 2015 you are in the same position as the rest of the world with regard to the main theme of Separating Man from God.

There are many, and in writing this book I’ve come across a few people, who will think it’s not they that need to change but it’s the world that needs to change. But aren’t we the world, each one of us?

As a black man the richness of Soul Music, and a love and dependency on music in general, surrounds me. Some would say Soul Music, if not most forms of music come out of church and other Religions. What will happen when black people separate from Religion and not God. And will this separation diminish violence, unrest, or Nuclear threats.

Chapter 55: Mechanism, Recognising God increases Political negativity

I’m going to start this book with the end as the end is often the beginning. My truth shall be beautiful, my lies unreadable. So anytime you decide to stop reading, you have found my lies. If you continue, you have found my truth.

It’s Remembrance Day 2014, a military band could be heard in good spirits on Broad St, Birmingham, UK. I make my way through my typical morning routine. By 2 pm I have said silently, 35 prayers. However I try to justify reducing this amount, I cannot. Whenever I ask myself why so many prayers, the only answer that occurs to me is, it gives me freedom from God. Then I ask why is it important to be free of God? I have no answer, except as I’m no God, I wish to know what it is to be human.

Yesterday, Google’s menu for me included a confrontation between an American Baptist who was anti war but portrayed as anti American, essentially saying America deserved everything from 9/11 to the body bags of soldiers, and a Fox news interviewer. The Fox news interviewer called her everything but satanic. For quite a bit of the interview, both the Baptist and interviewer were talking over each other. I commented that is exactly what is happening with God. By recognising God you nullify Gods power and control over your subconscious. To some extent, recognising God gives you freedom from God.

This freedom from God in turn makes you more dependent on your own beliefs, Religion, tribe and culture. In turn again, this is likely to make you more negative to that which you consider outside your identity.

So let us take the Baptist, let me quote the U tube video. I feel good about warning this nation that the Wrath of God is pouring onto their heads, because they will not obey. And the Lord God is punishing this nation, and he’s doing it, one of his weapons of choice is sending your children home dead in the battle. So we are here now to connect the dots. And what I feel best about is, those legislative Taliban in Iowa passed an unconstitutional measure to try to stop us from putting the cup of fury of the Wrath of God to your lips and make you drink it, that you were doing it anyway.

So she’s anti war, who isn’t? She uses and represents a church that goes that extra mile to stop American armies engaging in war. Again questionable tools but who would not like to put a stop to war.

My message to the lady is she is essentially recognising God, her point of view incidental. She is striving for her Freedom from God. But at no point in the 5 minute interview does either party recognise this. Neither of them appears aware of the mechanism that links increasing freedom from God by recognising God, with becoming increasingly politically negative and unstable.

Back to the interviewer, his introduction to the interview shows a Baptist church demonstration near a soldier’s funeral. An adolescent looking girl holds up a banner ‘Thank God for dead soldiers.’ Which can be interpreted in different ways: it’s God’s wrath that results in dead soldiers or they are glad the soldiers are dead. But its meaning in context, is again incidental.

The Fox news interviewer continues to describe this Baptist woman as ‘nuts.’ They also nullify each other, as neither wants to understand the opposing point of view, both far more interested in appearing righteous while in the act of denigration. In this respect they are equal, and neither holds the moral higher ground. At least I don’t think so.

My 35 prayers a day end,

...So that I can change to make a positive contribution to the world we live in.

Thank God for teaching me new ways.

Lord God help me to use prayer to not kill, steal, lie, worship false Gods or idols.

Observe the Sabbath, honour those that worship God, honour the father (God), my parents.

To not commit adultery, eat healthily to not swear. To not use the Lords name in vain. Be chaste, ask God if I should be baptised. Thank God for saving my life. Amen.

Chapter 54: Recognising God

Psalm 120

In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me. Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. What shall be given unto thee? Or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

50 children were killed today at a Nigerian school. I was numb the rest of the day. There was only an hour or so of daylight left. I could not listen to anymore BBC news bulletins. I started to write to BBC Radio 4 PM, ‘The last 50 Christians were killed in Nigeria today,' but thought better of it. I rested, slept, my book became worthless, my beliefs, worthless. I thought this book will never be continued, or completed. But here I am adding to it, working on it, trying to improve it. Hoping the letters written to important people will have done some good.

I noticed no mention of Religion in the bulletin, which is not usually the case where there is a Religious element to such incidents. Boko Haram and Western styled schools sanitize what we have been told is a war between Christianity and Muslims. Maybe the BBC is learning they too are stoking the fire when they add Religious references. Maybe not.

Your Royal Highness:

I share your concern about the persecution of Christians and other cultures in Iraq. I have almost finished reading Psalm 119, which is 7 or 8 pages typically recognising God. I have learned and now believe recognising God is like two people talking to each other at the same time: both will not hear everything the other says.

So too, recognising God I believe nullifies and to some extent frees such a person from God. This freedom from God I also believe makes a person more dependent on their belief, culture, and tribe. The more you recognise God the stronger this dependency.

The stronger this dependency on culture tribe, belief, the more negative that person can become to that which they consider outside their identity.

So, increasing recognising God increases or can increase political unrest. Unless we all start to recognise this link, war will be largely perpetual. Tyrants simply a reaction to inherent political unrest, fuelled by Religions promoting too much time recognising God.

Michael Barnett Birmingham UK

Pain through exercise increases the ability to sense god

I wake on a pleasant mid August Saturday morning. Soon depression overwhelms me, I mentally flick through the chores I have to do. It does not feel like it's going to be a day to do a 15th consecutive days yoga. And as I touch my toes approaching 2 hrs from getting out of bed, the depression dissolves and is replaced by a sense of community, of living amongst people and becoming aware that god is not so far away. I realise that split second look women often give me has a lot to do with me regularly increasing my ability via PRY to sense god. What I think they see is a man that can sense god more than the norm. Will my ability to sense god protect me, my town, my country. Will the suicide bomber be unable to see or sense who I am? Very difficult to say, maybe only time will tell. But at least that time goes by within a community, and not within the isolation of depression. Can I reach the man who is heading towards violence? Probably not. Religion dominates even those countries that are not religious. I can only continue my journey hoping to someday turn a corner and find out how man can be stopped from being violent to other men, and excessively violent to other beings.

I can only add to this chapter the 1000 pages of the Bible are generally about recognising God. The 11th November 2014 finds me regularly saying to people, increase recognising God and you increase political unrest and instability. I think of churches, mosques, synagogues and other temples, which will eventually stand and be admired as relics of long forgotten wars. Monuments to times when war was rife, and threatened to destroy us, not destroyed themselves’ to warn of a world none of us would choose to live in.

I am drawn to the war scene I heard on the radio a few years back, portrayed by a veteran possibly of the D Day landing in France during WWII. Detached as we are now from the scene of UK soldiers trying to take back French territory, I listened to the veteran soldier use the out of place phrase, as least to me, ‘it was bad.’ Not a phrase that would have occurred to me to use. He then went on to describe a Pastor getting onto the beach, erecting a table as an altar. I cannot recall if he had time to cover it with a cloth or whether he had managed to do anything like pray at his makeshift altar, when the veteran says, ‘Next thing I watch him blown to pieces, a direct hit by a shell. It was bad, very bad that day.‘

This image has stayed with me. I never envisaged I would be considering the whole process of recognising God as increasing political unrest. But I do now.

I heard a demoralising interview summarising Syria. Towards the end of the interview a man spoke directly to me when he said: ‘In all this slaughter why is the West largely standing by? Is it because we are Muslim?’

I could not tell him, yes, it’s largely because you are Muslim, you find yourselves burying your brothers and sisters. It’s largely because you’re Muslim there is Political unrest. ‘Where is your proof, you’re talking nonsense.' Of course he has a point: my world is very isolated and abstract. My environment sterile, where are my tests to confirm, Religion increases political unrest. And my mind goes back 8 months to when my own life appeared to be slipping away. Choking to death every couple of hours, on my own, a voice said to me: ‘Prayer rests you from God.' The 100 prayers I thought would save my life were actually putting my life in greater danger: by switching off the subconscious that manages bodily function.

'Again, so you say, where is your proof? Subconscious, conscious where is your proof. Go away till you have your proof.’ And I say to Rahul, ‘It’s better I go away, I have no proof.’

‘Ha Ha !‘ he laughs, ‘You will never write 200 pages about Freedom from God.‘ I tell him I agree, it now appears unlikely. I just so wanted to help the world.

Chapter 53: I wish I was an atheist

Hello God, we are from a planet we call Earth. We know you have been expecting us, we mean you no harm.

Psalm 121

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even forever more.

Michael Barnett, it’s common for people to see a deity behind a happenchance, a fortuity. People invest in the unexpected, as a singular divine bestowal of good fortune. Whereas catastrophes are often regarded as enigmas of the divine intent, a withdrawal of God’s care. Neither is true; they are merely random events. How we cope with them is dependent on our knowledge and experience, our skills and strengths, and the support from family, friends and community.

Mcmanpa, from the scale of the individual, right up to the Universe Multiverse: there are many opportunities to work out whether or not God exists. 5 years back, I would have agreed with you. But like I say, your lucky day is when it saves your life. It will tell you something of who it is. This happens every day all over the world. At the other end of the scale, consider the Universe and Multiverse, consider where it or they came from, what is it, etc. God is never far away. Prayer will help you find it, or it may find you anyway.

Or it may not.

I then get a reply once again defending Atheism, and respond:

Mcmanpa, Nice double handed back hand. Let me try a volley. I admire your control of language, but God is now. Everyday around the world it intervenes and teaches, you cannot get more current than that. Your subconscious I believe has become dependent on it. Your subconscious controls your heart, the very life that flows through you is controlled by God. And you say we would be better not being dependent, in many ways I could not agree more. But life has evolved that way as it appears more efficient.

Recognising God I believe is part of a chain reaction that leads to political unrest. Most if not all wars, terrorism, organised crime may have their origins in recognising God.

My point is we cannot escape this bubble. But like you, the Atheist represents more stability. I often long for the days when I was an atheist too. Just look at the tension in this interview and its background, as they both recognise God.

And look at the bible, if ever there was a case of myth and misunderstanding it’s there. You will struggle to find anyone in it who notices the political unrest that comes with recognising God. Though looked at differently, that's mostly what you are reading: recognising God and its associated political unrest.

But I believe eventually we will leave war, terrorism, organised crime behind, churches mosques, synagogues, and temples, left only as reminders of times like the holocaust or ISIS.

In our different ways we are both trying to gain freedom from God. Both ways work, I believe to some extent. In fact let me declare Michael’s Law to eliminate War, Terrorism, and Organised crime by 2115. Rahul laughs, ‘Please.’

An end to War, Terrorism, and Organised crime is at least 1000 years away. We will merge with machines that frown on or wipe more than one reference a day to God.

Chapter 52: I am an Atheist

Psalm 122

I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD. For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy