APPENDIX II

The Work of Kersey Graves

Introduction

A religion which sedulously opposes its own improvement can do nothing essential toward improving anything else...On the contrary, it must check the growth of everything it touches with its palsied hands - Kersey Graves

Throughout our work we have attempted to discover where the various Judeo-Christian traditions originally came from. Seeking these origins is, in our opinion, of vital importance for it yields invaluable information about the present sorry human condition.

However, the question of origins must remain secondary to the more vital question concerning the validity of the myriad tenets and precepts of religion (specifically of Judeo-Christianity). The question of primary importance concerns whether or not the various religious tenets, customs, proclamations, precepts, laws, and traditions have any rational value. Do they contribute to humanity's healthy development or do they restrain and inhibit such progress? Do they contribute to the spiritual wealth of nations and peoples, or are they a corrupting influence? Do they explain the mysteries of microcosm and macrocosm, or do they confound needed understanding?

Do they breed a love of virtue and truth, as great philosophy should, or do they subvert the natural intelligence of human beings leading to greater mental and behavioral arrestation and delinquency? Do they explain the philosophical questions of a good and naturally moral man, or do they satiate the sullied palates of fools, villains, and sadists? Are we knee-deep in the latter sort of creature today because of the widespread and irrational belief in a psychotic god, a false religion, and a sadistic, necrophiliac priesthood?

By far the greater part of those who embraced the Christian religion in this its infancy being men of mean extraction and wholly illiterate, it could not otherwise happen but that a great scarcity should be experienced in the churches of persons possessing the qualifications requisite for initiating the ignorance and communicating instruction to them with a due degree of readiness and skill - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (17th Century German Church Historian)

I never reason on religion. None but the disciples of devils reason. Its dangerous to reason on religion - Rev. Moody (American Clergyman)

Certainly, we understand Judeo-Christianity to be antique, and we have a fair idea now of where it originated. What we must address is its overall significance. That which served mankind yesterday may be of little use today. That which has inhibited man's natural evolution is of even less use; and that which has poisoned and drugged humanity in the past must not be allowed to so affect the incoming souls who should be allowed to inherit a sane and safe world, one in which they can know truth directly, and in which they can know themselves, as the great oracles of old directed.

In the course of our expose we intend to clearly show how the Universal Intelligence (or God Force) works with, or communicates through, the consciousness of human beings. Indeed, it is our contention that the force that is known as God, works through, or is the human reason. The reason is the Creator's true revelation to man. Therefore, it follows that the nature of any man's character - as well as his sanctity and virtue - depends from the manner in which he utilizes his reason. It is for man, through usage, to perfect the faculty that makes living an enriching and meaningful experience. To understand and apply religious tenets and principles presupposes good moral intention and a mind already self-imbued with sanctity. Only a rational mind can understand the supposed communications of a God, should they exist. Reason is, therefore, infinitely superior to revelation. So, since reason precludes revelation and is greater than it, we can see how damaging and sinister it is when we are told by clerics to never question the scriptures or ask whether the "infallible" words of god make rational sense. We are to do as Augustine did and believe the scriptures "because they are absurd." Millions of people have shown themselves more than able to do this, even when it condemns them to endure an inner war that rages between their egoic needs and reason.

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent....Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen - (I Corinthians 1:10 & 27, 28)

If, as we submit, the human reason is the "god" within, it logically follows that anything that confounds or subverts the rationality of man must be unspiritual and base. The irrational and unsound must be exposed, routed out and cast aside. If it should remain before us, in our midst, the rational faculty will be under assault and perpetual threat of infection and infirmity. A cold look at the mess of humanity today furnishes proof enough of this point.

Man is free to choose not to be conscious, but not free to escape the penalty of unconsciousness, destruction - Ayn Rand

The scientific mind is likewise intoxicated, since science has become the new religion replete with as many fallacies and contradictions as religion.

The reason situates man spiritually and exalts him. His beliefs and opinions, his understanding and knowledge, are based on the operations of his reason. The right use of reason leads us toward the truth of ourselves and the world. This action of the reason will, however, also serve to reveal the labyrinth of lies that proliferate around us. Anything that exists to confound reason can and should be considered evil and thoroughly anti-human. In our opinion the Judeo-Christian creed, as presented and codified by the churches, is such an evil. To prove our contentious and iconoclastic statement, we present the reader with the very material in the Bible's Old and New Testaments that we consider irrational and, therefore, morally and spiritually subversive.

The ultimate result of shielding man from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools - Herbert Spenser

We leave the rational reader to draw their own conclusions and to continue examining the world's religions to see if they possess any redeeming qualities. We have made a personal search  and have not found religion to be of any value or quality. The vile nature of most religions has, however, been revealed to us and, in our alarm at what we have seen and discovered, we feel compelled to present, in our idiosyncratic fashion, this present appendix as a flashing beacon of caution to others walking upon the steep and narrow paths toward the peak of sanity and true revelation.

And so it has been for the better part of 2000 years the Old Testament was the sole record of the Mesopotamian patriarchal era. There was no way for anyone to know if it was fact or fiction…it was taken on board for history - Laurence Gardner

There is nothing holy about the Bible, nor is it “the word of God.” It was not written by God-inspired saints, but by power-seeking priests. Who but priests consider sin the paramount issue? Who but priests write volumes of religious rites and rituals? No one, but for these priestly scribes were sin and rituals imperatives. Their purpose was to found an awe-inspiring religion. By this intellectual tyranny they sought to gain control, and they achieved it. By 400 BC, they were the masters of ancient Israel. For such a great project they needed a theme, a framework, and this they found in the Creation lore of more knowledgeable races. This they commandeered and perverted – the natural to the supernatural, and the truth to error. The Bible is, we assert, but priest-perverted cosmology - Lloyd Graham (Myths and Deceptions of the Bible)
 

Excerpts from
"Atlantis, Alien Visitation & Genetic Manipulation"
by Michael Tsarion

If man was made in god’s image, and after his likeness, then to a logical mind it follows that god must resemble man’s form. Perhaps he even has man’s mortal failings. Does this mean that god is dependant on food and water, that he depends on light to see and air to breathe, or that he is subservient to the elements, or that he needs a mate, etc? If we spontaneously reply "no" to these questions, then we confirm that god must not closely resemble man as Genesis assures us. So, we have a contradiction…one of many. God either resembles man in form and character, or he does not? Which is it. And if god possesses those physical, emotional, and mental traits that are seen in men, then are we not to assume the accuracy of the earlier Sumerian texts that insists that god walked physically among men? And if these early pagan texts are accurate in that regard, what else do they contain that is true?

Man is made in God's image. So says Genesis. Then why was neither Adam or Eve made immortal like God?

If Adam was made in God's own image, why do Jews and Christians not believe man to be able to become godlike?

We are told by the religions that man has two natures, good and evil. One is then compelled to ask why God would instill such propensities in his own creations who are made in his image?

We read that God created man and woman. This implies that God is not man or woman “himself.” Yet, consistently, the post-diluvian religions all over the globe, constantly depicted and referred to God as male? They do this even when, in the case of Hebrew, the name for deity is of feminine gender.

We are told that man was not originally evil. He became that way after the disobedience of Eve in the Garden. Why would God create something born in his image and then deny him some aspect of knowledge and then even banish him from paradise after it had been received?

We must also ask why God would condemn his creations for something that was not a conscious transgression? Why the tests imposed on those who must already be innocent in nature?

God promised Noah after the Flood that he would never visit the world with like calamity again...but there have been innumerable devastations unleashed on earth, that taken together would rival and even surpass the horror and death-toll of a prehistoric aeon.

Does it not seem strange that the God who promised to take care of all his people and never bring another deluge would be so conspicuously absent during all the subsequent horrors of history?

Then we are told that the parents sinned, only after they fell under the influence of the evil one, Satan. So we ask, why would God allow his newly created beings to be in the proximity of this “evil one?” Who created the serpent?

If such a being as Satan was known to exist, why was the angel with the fiery sword meant to protect the garden of Eden not placed there sooner. What good was it to place such an angel of protection at Eden's gates after the damage had been done, and after Adam and Eve had already fallen from paradise?

And how did Satan, if he existed, come to know evil himself. Must not evil have already existed? Certainly, evil must have been in existence, even as a potential, before Satan chose it as a means to an end. Or does this kind of logic not apply to scripture?

Why would God himself know evil, befor