Worldliness, the enemy of Christendom, is benign, despite the fear of men, women and children who grew up with a love for God and his Only Begotten.
Yet, imagine for a moment that worldliness is not the enemy, but is the mean by which individuals learn that only God is the author of good and evil.
All satan is is the accuser, the adversary, and the poor foolish creation of God who has blackened the light and covered it with selfishness and all the worldly temptations that befall mankind.
Thus, why fear the devil? It is best to only fear God and respect him because we have overcome that fear by His grace and mercy, and our sins forgiven due to his Son's sacrifice.
Indeed, fear only God. All the devil is good for is to laugh at until he retreats. For he who fears God respects him. Let laughter chase the devil away.
Without satan, worldliness is not temptation but inspiration to choose the Christ, rather than commit the unpardonable sin, apostasy and the forgetting of God.
Yet he who chooses poverty over wealth and obscurity over fame walks the meek path, free from all temptation. Though he may covet worldliness, this man knows God is great and his Only Begotten the light that frees all who follow Him.
When we follow the Christ, all worldliness is is temptation to which we cry "Get thee behind me, satan" before we claim what was a part of God's creation which was lost to us and now has found its way back to consecration.
What power does worldliness have that men, women and children choose its treasure, and forget God, only to awaken in old age, miserable and alone? If we covet any part of it, then we might be lost until we repent and return to God through the power of love unconditional that God sent the Christ to us.
No enemy then is worldliness — a meddlesome irritation that distracts us from the path towards perfect.
For His love is free from human conditions and His mercy allows the faithful to follow Him.
To those Christians who say the Word shows us satan is all powerful, what diabolical lies are you peddling? This subtle devil worship that a Christian might practice when he claims "the Devil exists" to instill fear in the hearts of his fellow men is blasphemy.
Only God shall you fear out of respect for his power, and the devil is impotent in the face of laughter of God's people. You can serve only one Master, and He shall return one day. Thus the devil is unreal and unworthy of our fear.
I say this in Jesus' name that only God shall be worshiped, his Only Begotten Son being the Christ who has bound the devil so he only tempts all of us, some more than others. They who say satan is unbound only have a difference of opinion, and the touch of fear mongering so that they may control their flocks.
As with worldliness, the devil is not as big an enemy as our true selves. Why else is Jesus Christ all of Christendom's friend?
Showing posts with label satan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label satan. Show all posts
20141021
Authors of Destiny
Nowhere in the Bible does it state that Satan is the author of evil, for this is blasphemy. Rather, God is author of good-and-evil, which is the complement of good and evil.
For man is not only capable of great evil but also great good.
All that the devil can do is accuse or tempt us. We are perfectly capable of making mistakes on our own when temptation leads to desire.
Of course, the devil exists in Christendom. However, the devil never made a person do anything. That's merely an excuse for being wicked until one is damned by ill will.
This is why it's important to attend church regularly, and serve the church selflessly to renew your covenant with God.
That's what repentance is about.
Although God is the author of good-and-evil, people are the authors of their own destiny.
For man is not only capable of great evil but also great good.
All that the devil can do is accuse or tempt us. We are perfectly capable of making mistakes on our own when temptation leads to desire.
Of course, the devil exists in Christendom. However, the devil never made a person do anything. That's merely an excuse for being wicked until one is damned by ill will.
This is why it's important to attend church regularly, and serve the church selflessly to renew your covenant with God.
That's what repentance is about.
Although God is the author of good-and-evil, people are the authors of their own destiny.
20140924
Fear of the Devil == diabolism == un-Christian
In a way, it's sacrilege for Christians, Jews and Muslims to claim the soul is immortal, which is a neo-Pagan concept.
By adding this layer of syncretism to dogma ("the soul is immortal"), along with the "Jesus is God incarnate" dogma, Christianity becomes nothing more than holy book that does not make sense apart from the sinners in the Old Testament and the matyrdoms of the New.
And when outsiders try to make sense of the Bible, the Christian snatches away, crying "You cannot add a new chapter to this Book; it's forbidden!"
About this "devil" and "satan" nonsense that mass media is utterly false. Jesus bound satan 1980 years ago, and the end of days have yet to arrive, because after end of days, satan is unbound for 1000 days/years.
Finally, I strongly object to telling everyone satan lives.
Dude, you're a Christian, and instilling fear of the devil is doing nothing more but explaining anything a Christian believes is immoral and sinful like enjoyable sex between consenting adults is actually a form of diabolism.
That's right: when someone puts the fear of the devil into another Christian's heart, all you are also doing is instilling a fearful respect for the devil while having a fearful respect for Jesus who is in Deity with God.
Is it not time to instill a stronger fear and respect of God?
For it is quite un-Christian to fear the devil, lest your fear distract you from God. It is thus best to fear only God and laugh at the devil. If we Christians believe God exists, then the existence of the devil is not debatable.
However, it is best to think of such a creature as so totally lost as to be shrouded in darkness.
How foolish are the satanists! For he who thinks satan will do you good, has everything backwards. Nowhere in the Bible does it say "fear your false Lord, Lucifer."
Indeed, the worship of satan is a lie that satanists let their egos get the best of them, and reject humility.
By encouraging a fear of the devil in God-fearing Christians, I wonder how this reassures any Christian that God ought not be feared. As long as the fiction that evil totally corrupts the soul which was made by God is prevalent, there is no belief in redemption.
Sadly then, if this is doctrine in the Roman Catholic Church, then it is why child abuse is rampant. For the scapegoating of evil for the folly of the good is commonplace in the Church.
Since the soul was created by God, all evil can do is cover it in the darkness of spiritual ignorance. This make it possible to redeem the lost soul, for evil — as well as good — is impermanent. It can be removed by doing good, even though such right action is ridiculed as old-fashioned.
Even though diabolism is un-Christian, it cannot tarnish the soul. For proof that this is so, I endorse anyone to search for anecdotes about a biker who gave up satanism for Jesus. His story will astound you.
Finally, although it may be the work of ignorant Christians to endorse the fear of the devil in order to win them over to the Christian side, it might instead lead to a superstitious fear of the devil, which is somehow counteracted by love for God.
If this love of God is too superstitious, then it may lead to inner conflict between ignorance and Enlightenment. Would it not then be better to inculcate love of God and be done with encouraging a subtle diabolism to arise inadvertently?
Indeed, the fear and respect of God is better for the soul than the unbelief that arises from fear of the devil.
Originally posted on Feb 12, 2013 at 0826H
Syncretism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncretism
By adding this layer of syncretism to dogma ("the soul is immortal"), along with the "Jesus is God incarnate" dogma, Christianity becomes nothing more than holy book that does not make sense apart from the sinners in the Old Testament and the matyrdoms of the New.
And when outsiders try to make sense of the Bible, the Christian snatches away, crying "You cannot add a new chapter to this Book; it's forbidden!"
About this "devil" and "satan" nonsense that mass media is utterly false. Jesus bound satan 1980 years ago, and the end of days have yet to arrive, because after end of days, satan is unbound for 1000 days/years.
Finally, I strongly object to telling everyone satan lives.
Dude, you're a Christian, and instilling fear of the devil is doing nothing more but explaining anything a Christian believes is immoral and sinful like enjoyable sex between consenting adults is actually a form of diabolism.
That's right: when someone puts the fear of the devil into another Christian's heart, all you are also doing is instilling a fearful respect for the devil while having a fearful respect for Jesus who is in Deity with God.
Is it not time to instill a stronger fear and respect of God?
For it is quite un-Christian to fear the devil, lest your fear distract you from God. It is thus best to fear only God and laugh at the devil. If we Christians believe God exists, then the existence of the devil is not debatable.
However, it is best to think of such a creature as so totally lost as to be shrouded in darkness.
How foolish are the satanists! For he who thinks satan will do you good, has everything backwards. Nowhere in the Bible does it say "fear your false Lord, Lucifer."
Indeed, the worship of satan is a lie that satanists let their egos get the best of them, and reject humility.
By encouraging a fear of the devil in God-fearing Christians, I wonder how this reassures any Christian that God ought not be feared. As long as the fiction that evil totally corrupts the soul which was made by God is prevalent, there is no belief in redemption.
Sadly then, if this is doctrine in the Roman Catholic Church, then it is why child abuse is rampant. For the scapegoating of evil for the folly of the good is commonplace in the Church.
Since the soul was created by God, all evil can do is cover it in the darkness of spiritual ignorance. This make it possible to redeem the lost soul, for evil — as well as good — is impermanent. It can be removed by doing good, even though such right action is ridiculed as old-fashioned.
Even though diabolism is un-Christian, it cannot tarnish the soul. For proof that this is so, I endorse anyone to search for anecdotes about a biker who gave up satanism for Jesus. His story will astound you.
Finally, although it may be the work of ignorant Christians to endorse the fear of the devil in order to win them over to the Christian side, it might instead lead to a superstitious fear of the devil, which is somehow counteracted by love for God.
If this love of God is too superstitious, then it may lead to inner conflict between ignorance and Enlightenment. Would it not then be better to inculcate love of God and be done with encouraging a subtle diabolism to arise inadvertently?
Indeed, the fear and respect of God is better for the soul than the unbelief that arises from fear of the devil.
Originally posted on Feb 12, 2013 at 0826H
Syncretism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncretism
20140402
Behold! The Angel of Music Stands Before You (satire)
This implies that Justin Bieber may be Pentecostal in his beliefs, since they have redeemed a lot of previously satanic practices, including speaking in tongues, and also Ouija boards.
However, most Christians tend to have disbelief in the Oneness of God, having fallen to the blasphemy that the Christ is God. A few of them even profess an unhealthy fear of the devil. Most Christians would be better off fearing only God.
Sadly though, the unhealthy practice of deeming ungodliness as satanic is prevalent among Christians, to the point where they practice a good versus evil dichotomy by equally fearing both God and Satan.
How foolish! No wonder a lot of Muslims have stated Christians will spend the afterlife before the Fire.
It's no coincidence that Bieber comes to the stage as the angel of music after admitting to be a Christian and praying before each act.
According to belief, Lucifer was the ministry of music and the most beautiful and “perfect” of all the angels before becoming jealous of God’s power, leaving God with no other choice than to throw him out of heaven.
Justin Bieber cashes in on this symbolism by having a bunch of speakers as "wings" as he swoops down to the stage. It is like he took back from the devil what is rightly God's.
So, in a metaphorical sense, Justin Bieber is the angel of music reborn.
Let us hope this angel can clean his wings of his past sins and redeem himself soon.
Oh, and please do not marry Selena for the sake of world peace!
20140204
Let God's will be / دعونا الله سيكون
الله يكون كبيرا و سجن الشيطان في الجحيم من قبل المسيح.
لا يتم تضليل للذئاب في ثياب الحملان الذين يدعون الشيطان يغري لنا. فإنه ليس من عمل الشيطان لإغراء لنا، ولكن ل يلقي ظلالا من الشك على قوتنا الداخلية و عزيمة . لأنه هو بإرادة الرجل وحده أن ننكر كل إغراء ل سلامنا للعقل.
عندما يخطئ رجل ، هو فقط من قبل إرادته أن ينشأ الشر ، وليس لأن الشيطان يغري له . الأحمق فقط هو الذي يلوم كائن خارق مع قليل التأثير المادي على قراراتنا.
إذا لم تكن جيدة يحدث لنا ، ثم لماذا لعنة الله ؟ إذا الشر يضر بنا ، لماذا علاج الشيطان ؟ لا ينبغي لنا أن نحمد الله عند حسن الحظ هو نصيبنا ؟
في الواقع ، يجب علينا التبرع للمشردين عندما يواجه حسن الحظ ، وعندما يصيب الشر لنا ، للحصول على خطأ أو إغفال الأمر الذي أدى إلى مثل هذه المأساة.
وبالتالي أنا أعرف أن أي شخص يقول الشيطان بيننا و تعزيز عمل شيطاني فقط ، ومتمنيا أشخاص آخرين للخوف عليه عندما يجب أن نضحك على الشيطان.
انه هو الذي يعرف الحكمة رموز الشر الجيدة والتي لا بد لي القانون الفيزيائي . لذلك، على حد سواء الله والشيطان وبصرف النظر منا. لا لا اللهم ارزقنا حسن الحظ، لا ولا الشيطان تحيق بنا مع الوباء .
دعونا الله سيكون
--- translation: english ---
God be great and Satan is imprisoned in hell by the Christ.
Do not be mislead by wolves in sheep's clothing who claim Satan tempts us. It is not the devil's work to tempt us, but to cast doubt on our inner strength and resolve. For it is by man's will alone that we deny all temptation for our peace of mind.
When a man errs, it is solely by his will that evil arises, not because Satan tempts him. Only a fool would blame a supernatural being with little physical influence over our decisions.
If good does not happen to us, then why curse God? If evil harms us, why cure the devil? Should we not praise God when good fortune is our lot?
Indeed, we ought to donate to the homeless when encountering good fortune, and when evil befalls us, seek the error or omission which led to such tragedy.
Thus I know that anyone who says Satan is among us is only promoting diabolism, and wishing other people to fear him when she should laugh at the devil.
He who is wise knows the symbols of good and evil are not bound by physical law. Therefore, both God and the devil are apart from us. Neither does God grant us good fortune, nor does Satan plague us with pestilence.
Let God's will be.
20140104
Kick the Devil Out of The House of God, Christians! (satire)
If God is the author of good and evil, then the devil cannot be the embodiment of evil.
Therefore, the New Testament's "devil / Satan as embodiment of evil" along with the misappropriated demon "myths" are erroneous doctrines which is mistakenly turned into dogma for the sole reason of controlling a Christian church's congregation.
I contend that these myths are not Biblical and may have been inserted into the Bible or into church doctrine during the days of the Early Church up to and past Augustine's time.
However, in the process of using the devil as a way of using fear to control the congregation, church leaders are actually promoting a subtle devil worship by inculcating an unconscious respect for Satan, often unknowingly.
It is this fear of the devil which violates the commandment of worshiping only the Lord God, and thus opens any church with a doctrine which supports the dualism of good or evil.
For the true church of God is better off with the doctrine of good and evil and respect its Creator.
Indeed, the devil has no place in a house of the Lord. Thus, the good versus evil scenario as predating man is erroneous and un-Biblical.
In teaching the congregation to fear the devil and to love Jesus in diety with Lord God, Christian churches are teaching them satanic dogma, which should have no place in the house of the Lord God.
For God is solely the author of good and evil, and the devil has no authorship for evil.
Only in man is there potential for great evil and for great good.
Being a supernatural being, the devil has no power over us. His actions can only be discerned working through the behavior of our fellow man, and even then it is questionable if the evil of a person's act is due to satan or his own free will.
Indeed, the devil's influence is little — he just makes suggestions that only fools commit as acts which are designed to destroy that fool's self esteem.
Thus the devil's true purpose is to suggest to the fool selfish acts of delusion, to either get him to forget about God through shame or to learn through such failure how to succeed as a man of God.
Indeed, the choice is up to each of us to choose God or the devil, but emphasizing the duality of God or the devil is like playing with fire.
For the Christians have paid dearly for inserting that erroneous duality into their dogma.
Originally posted: January 12, 2013 8:28 PM
Therefore, the New Testament's "devil / Satan as embodiment of evil" along with the misappropriated demon "myths" are erroneous doctrines which is mistakenly turned into dogma for the sole reason of controlling a Christian church's congregation.
I contend that these myths are not Biblical and may have been inserted into the Bible or into church doctrine during the days of the Early Church up to and past Augustine's time.
However, in the process of using the devil as a way of using fear to control the congregation, church leaders are actually promoting a subtle devil worship by inculcating an unconscious respect for Satan, often unknowingly.
It is this fear of the devil which violates the commandment of worshiping only the Lord God, and thus opens any church with a doctrine which supports the dualism of good or evil.
For the true church of God is better off with the doctrine of good and evil and respect its Creator.
Indeed, the devil has no place in a house of the Lord. Thus, the good versus evil scenario as predating man is erroneous and un-Biblical.
In teaching the congregation to fear the devil and to love Jesus in diety with Lord God, Christian churches are teaching them satanic dogma, which should have no place in the house of the Lord God.
For God is solely the author of good and evil, and the devil has no authorship for evil.
Only in man is there potential for great evil and for great good.
Being a supernatural being, the devil has no power over us. His actions can only be discerned working through the behavior of our fellow man, and even then it is questionable if the evil of a person's act is due to satan or his own free will.
Indeed, the devil's influence is little — he just makes suggestions that only fools commit as acts which are designed to destroy that fool's self esteem.
Thus the devil's true purpose is to suggest to the fool selfish acts of delusion, to either get him to forget about God through shame or to learn through such failure how to succeed as a man of God.
Indeed, the choice is up to each of us to choose God or the devil, but emphasizing the duality of God or the devil is like playing with fire.
For the Christians have paid dearly for inserting that erroneous duality into their dogma.
Originally posted: January 12, 2013 8:28 PM
20131231
On satan, meds and mental illness (satire)
According to superstitous people, satan never commands, he only suggests.
He suggests by showing tempting visions to distract the faithful, though man's thoughts are easily distracted by this images of temptation.
However, satan is no master of mind control. Only a person has control of his or her mind, but may decide at his will to place faith in a leader out of compliant need of an authority figure.
With suggestion, satan might tempt such a figure, but that person may be so egocentric that the thought of being tempted by satan never crosses his mind. Yet he is not so egocentric as to deny the existence of God, which happens when one's ego becomes so big that the shining of his imagination is mistaken for "no God but I".
Today, the modern terms for human behavior influenced by satan are "mental illness" and "the evil that men do." However, most mental illnesses have nothing to do with satan according to the biochemical model. This theoretical model denies supernatural influence on human behavior, and substitutes the biochemical "superstition" for the spiritual one.
For the biochemical model of mental illness is a superstition because much of the reasoning that explains how psychiatric medications work is theory, and often certain medications do not work as the literature says.
A famous example of this is paxil (paroxetine): Glaxo-Smith-Kline claimed that the antidepressant had few withdrawal symptoms. However, it turned out that research which indicated that test patient indeed did have problems with withdrawal from the medication was suppressed and a big court case was fought over it.
Another example is mirtazapine, which is a sedative affecting the histamine receptors. When 30+ mg of mirtazapine is administered, the anti-histamine properties lead to changes in serotonin levels which affected the adrenalin receptors, leading to changes in alertness.
Mirtazapine actually reduces the serotonin-meditated side effect of nausea, due to its anti-histamine effect. As well, it also improves access to memory, resulting in a nootropic effect. Despite the initial anti-histamine effect, the brain adapts to the changes that mirtazapine causes, resulting in changes in sleep behavior at night, leading one to wake up hungry and willing to snack.
Though, the resulting sedation caused by mirtazapine results in the ability to realize that life is go on. Then, after three months on the drug, one day it will poop out and the only thing to do at that point is taper off rather than play the frustrating game of "hoping the medication still works", which involves taking the first 15 mg dose in the morning and the last dose at bedtime.
Finally, after tapering off and enduring the mild chaos in the mind due to it, even one dose of mirtazapine has the effect of strong sedation, so strong that I wonder why I ever took it!
Overall, mirtazapine is a strong sedative, rather than an antidepressant. Yet few people in the psychopharmacuetical field have re-explored the anti-histamine model of depression relief. Instead, the SSRIs are peddled, despite the fact that most of them cause akathasia (where one's anxiety morphs into an extreme case of nerves with attendant restlessness) which is actually due to serotonin re-uptake inhibition. If you actually want to calm a person down after taking an SSRI, just have mirtazapine prescribed with it, since its sedative effects are caused by anti-histamine side effects.
Doctors have a short explanation for the way medications work: "Modern science does not know exactly how psychopharmaceuticals work, but they work."
However, the ones that harm you less and allow you to explore the world actually work more effectively than the ones that lead you to seek the comfort of your bed and that occasional evening snack.
Originally posted: December 24, 2012 2:30 PM
Reference:
Paroxetine: Controversy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroxetine#Controversy
He suggests by showing tempting visions to distract the faithful, though man's thoughts are easily distracted by this images of temptation.
However, satan is no master of mind control. Only a person has control of his or her mind, but may decide at his will to place faith in a leader out of compliant need of an authority figure.
With suggestion, satan might tempt such a figure, but that person may be so egocentric that the thought of being tempted by satan never crosses his mind. Yet he is not so egocentric as to deny the existence of God, which happens when one's ego becomes so big that the shining of his imagination is mistaken for "no God but I".
Today, the modern terms for human behavior influenced by satan are "mental illness" and "the evil that men do." However, most mental illnesses have nothing to do with satan according to the biochemical model. This theoretical model denies supernatural influence on human behavior, and substitutes the biochemical "superstition" for the spiritual one.
For the biochemical model of mental illness is a superstition because much of the reasoning that explains how psychiatric medications work is theory, and often certain medications do not work as the literature says.
A famous example of this is paxil (paroxetine): Glaxo-Smith-Kline claimed that the antidepressant had few withdrawal symptoms. However, it turned out that research which indicated that test patient indeed did have problems with withdrawal from the medication was suppressed and a big court case was fought over it.
Another example is mirtazapine, which is a sedative affecting the histamine receptors. When 30+ mg of mirtazapine is administered, the anti-histamine properties lead to changes in serotonin levels which affected the adrenalin receptors, leading to changes in alertness.
Mirtazapine actually reduces the serotonin-meditated side effect of nausea, due to its anti-histamine effect. As well, it also improves access to memory, resulting in a nootropic effect. Despite the initial anti-histamine effect, the brain adapts to the changes that mirtazapine causes, resulting in changes in sleep behavior at night, leading one to wake up hungry and willing to snack.
Though, the resulting sedation caused by mirtazapine results in the ability to realize that life is go on. Then, after three months on the drug, one day it will poop out and the only thing to do at that point is taper off rather than play the frustrating game of "hoping the medication still works", which involves taking the first 15 mg dose in the morning and the last dose at bedtime.
Finally, after tapering off and enduring the mild chaos in the mind due to it, even one dose of mirtazapine has the effect of strong sedation, so strong that I wonder why I ever took it!
Overall, mirtazapine is a strong sedative, rather than an antidepressant. Yet few people in the psychopharmacuetical field have re-explored the anti-histamine model of depression relief. Instead, the SSRIs are peddled, despite the fact that most of them cause akathasia (where one's anxiety morphs into an extreme case of nerves with attendant restlessness) which is actually due to serotonin re-uptake inhibition. If you actually want to calm a person down after taking an SSRI, just have mirtazapine prescribed with it, since its sedative effects are caused by anti-histamine side effects.
Doctors have a short explanation for the way medications work: "Modern science does not know exactly how psychopharmaceuticals work, but they work."
However, the ones that harm you less and allow you to explore the world actually work more effectively than the ones that lead you to seek the comfort of your bed and that occasional evening snack.
Originally posted: December 24, 2012 2:30 PM
Reference:
Paroxetine: Controversy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroxetine#Controversy
20131225
Good Alone Means Nothing (satire)
For good is empty of evil; evil, of good.
Empty implies the quality called "good and evil" is not a thing that has been here since the beginning. Instead it is a reified object of abstract origin made to be real which it is not.
Indeed, there is no reified good or evil.
For the "battle between good and evil" is a metaphor for what each person does in his life.
As well, the devil is not a personification of evil opposed to the personification of good (God).
Rather, the devil or satan is merely the metaphor of the Tempter without any power to harm us, just as God is aloof from man. It is within the mind of a person that the so-called battle rages, not from the supernatural realm (a mystical dimension).
For God is the author of good and evil, and Jesus-worship is a violation of the first commandment that God is your Lord, and he does not take kindly to worship of Jesus, whilst forgetting God is in deity with Jesus. All "Jesus is Lord" means is Jesus is the god of the Chrisitans.
Yet, to Christians, Jesus in deity with God means Jesus is Lord God.
Therefore, asking us to accept Jesus into our hearts is unnecessary as God-worshipers such as Jews and Muslims believe in God, and can do very well without Christianity.
For a Christian, Jesus-worship is empty of God-worship but is full of Jesus in deity with God.
What that means is that Jesus became the means by which Gentiles (non-Jews) and Jewish converts came to know God as the Jews tend to keep Gentiles (Goyim) in the dark about all things Jewish.
Thus it became difficult to know God personally as the Jew would stone any Goyim who tried to read the Talmud.
This is why Christianity was invented: to know God by accepting Jesus into their hearts. In this way, the Bible replaced the Talmud and the Jewish tendency to isolate was rejected.
As well, the Salafi Muslims err in persecuting Coptic Christians because their hate crimes against Christians violate Muslim respect for Christians.
Salafi propaganda is a fascist political tool that combines religious hatred for Christianity with violence against Christians, Jews and so-called unbelievers. For them, good means a worldwide Caliphate, which is impossible to arise due to the tendency for humanity to resist against hate and violence.
As much as anti-Semitism against Jews is a hate crime, so too is oppression of Coptic Christians and violence against unbelievers.
For Salafi Muslims are much too zealous to be considered a proper Muslim. Here the good that is full of hate and empty of love for all people as the Salafi display it is untrue and thus a pernicious fallacy inflamed by their zeal.
Were God to bless their enemies, not one Salafi Muslim would view as such. In their blindness, they are led by Shaitan and fooled by Iblis. Yet a Salafi would deny this and resort to violence while affirming that they are led by God to cleanse the land for the future Caliphate.
I do not write this to inflame a man's heart against Islam, but rather to convince people that Salafi Muslim are Muslim only in name. Even if they pray five times a day, they cannot wash off the curse of Cain, which is to murder others out of jealousy over God's blessing of their works.
Just as a Jew Jealously guards his Talmud from Christian eyes, so too does a Salafi guard his faith from the moderation of mainstream Islam, which he finds to be the root of unbelief of the moderate Muslims.
Good alone means nothing to a zealot. For he thinks he is good and others evil. The truth is, good and evil is relative to the situation, and in the situation of the Salafi warrior, it is good to kill unbelievers. His way is subtly influenced by Shaitan.
No matter how many infidels a Salafi warrior kills, his reward will still be the one of what the Christian calls "sinners", which is a time when to help cleanse the warrior of his sins, he will be cast into the pits of the Hells.
What this means is, the Salafi warrior has besmirched his name and brought shame to his ancestors. It is only by the forgiveness of the rest of humankind that their legacy will be redeemed. For there is a purpose to such zealous acts of mayhem and violence.
Since the Salafis see the Coptic Christian displays of piety as sacrilege, it is due to their level of shame which conflicts with the level of pride the Christians demonstrate when consecrating their churches. It makes me wonder if their ancestors were also guilty of condemning the Christ.
Out of their shame they act with the zeal of madman, killing Christians, be they men, women or child.
All the Christians of this world can do is condemn it and think of the good in forgiving the Salafis, for their ignorance of their actions.
That ignorance is what leads to the evil caused by their violence against the Christians.
It is not the Christian's duty to resist evil through violence, lest by raising a hand they go to Hell.
Even though the Jews may laugh at such things, even their actions bear the fruit now of evil rather good. It may be good to Israeli to kill nine Palestinians, but the one Israeli who was shot by a Palestinian sniper was a contractor to the Israel Defence Force. Though it was also a good for the Palestinians to martyr the killers of their people, their revenge is an evil.
Thus, no good will come of it, all this violence in the Middle East.
If I take a side, then I am no better than them. So on this matter, relative to good and evil, neither side is good (worth defending), be it Christian, Jew or Muslim.
For good alone means nothing.
Originally written January 20, 2013 4:21 AM
Empty implies the quality called "good and evil" is not a thing that has been here since the beginning. Instead it is a reified object of abstract origin made to be real which it is not.
Indeed, there is no reified good or evil.
For the "battle between good and evil" is a metaphor for what each person does in his life.
As well, the devil is not a personification of evil opposed to the personification of good (God).
Rather, the devil or satan is merely the metaphor of the Tempter without any power to harm us, just as God is aloof from man. It is within the mind of a person that the so-called battle rages, not from the supernatural realm (a mystical dimension).
For God is the author of good and evil, and Jesus-worship is a violation of the first commandment that God is your Lord, and he does not take kindly to worship of Jesus, whilst forgetting God is in deity with Jesus. All "Jesus is Lord" means is Jesus is the god of the Chrisitans.
Yet, to Christians, Jesus in deity with God means Jesus is Lord God.
Therefore, asking us to accept Jesus into our hearts is unnecessary as God-worshipers such as Jews and Muslims believe in God, and can do very well without Christianity.
For a Christian, Jesus-worship is empty of God-worship but is full of Jesus in deity with God.
What that means is that Jesus became the means by which Gentiles (non-Jews) and Jewish converts came to know God as the Jews tend to keep Gentiles (Goyim) in the dark about all things Jewish.
Thus it became difficult to know God personally as the Jew would stone any Goyim who tried to read the Talmud.
This is why Christianity was invented: to know God by accepting Jesus into their hearts. In this way, the Bible replaced the Talmud and the Jewish tendency to isolate was rejected.
As well, the Salafi Muslims err in persecuting Coptic Christians because their hate crimes against Christians violate Muslim respect for Christians.
Salafi propaganda is a fascist political tool that combines religious hatred for Christianity with violence against Christians, Jews and so-called unbelievers. For them, good means a worldwide Caliphate, which is impossible to arise due to the tendency for humanity to resist against hate and violence.
As much as anti-Semitism against Jews is a hate crime, so too is oppression of Coptic Christians and violence against unbelievers.
For Salafi Muslims are much too zealous to be considered a proper Muslim. Here the good that is full of hate and empty of love for all people as the Salafi display it is untrue and thus a pernicious fallacy inflamed by their zeal.
Were God to bless their enemies, not one Salafi Muslim would view as such. In their blindness, they are led by Shaitan and fooled by Iblis. Yet a Salafi would deny this and resort to violence while affirming that they are led by God to cleanse the land for the future Caliphate.
I do not write this to inflame a man's heart against Islam, but rather to convince people that Salafi Muslim are Muslim only in name. Even if they pray five times a day, they cannot wash off the curse of Cain, which is to murder others out of jealousy over God's blessing of their works.
Just as a Jew Jealously guards his Talmud from Christian eyes, so too does a Salafi guard his faith from the moderation of mainstream Islam, which he finds to be the root of unbelief of the moderate Muslims.
Good alone means nothing to a zealot. For he thinks he is good and others evil. The truth is, good and evil is relative to the situation, and in the situation of the Salafi warrior, it is good to kill unbelievers. His way is subtly influenced by Shaitan.
No matter how many infidels a Salafi warrior kills, his reward will still be the one of what the Christian calls "sinners", which is a time when to help cleanse the warrior of his sins, he will be cast into the pits of the Hells.
What this means is, the Salafi warrior has besmirched his name and brought shame to his ancestors. It is only by the forgiveness of the rest of humankind that their legacy will be redeemed. For there is a purpose to such zealous acts of mayhem and violence.
Since the Salafis see the Coptic Christian displays of piety as sacrilege, it is due to their level of shame which conflicts with the level of pride the Christians demonstrate when consecrating their churches. It makes me wonder if their ancestors were also guilty of condemning the Christ.
Out of their shame they act with the zeal of madman, killing Christians, be they men, women or child.
All the Christians of this world can do is condemn it and think of the good in forgiving the Salafis, for their ignorance of their actions.
That ignorance is what leads to the evil caused by their violence against the Christians.
It is not the Christian's duty to resist evil through violence, lest by raising a hand they go to Hell.
Even though the Jews may laugh at such things, even their actions bear the fruit now of evil rather good. It may be good to Israeli to kill nine Palestinians, but the one Israeli who was shot by a Palestinian sniper was a contractor to the Israel Defence Force. Though it was also a good for the Palestinians to martyr the killers of their people, their revenge is an evil.
Thus, no good will come of it, all this violence in the Middle East.
If I take a side, then I am no better than them. So on this matter, relative to good and evil, neither side is good (worth defending), be it Christian, Jew or Muslim.
For good alone means nothing.
Originally written January 20, 2013 4:21 AM
20131223
Further Thoughts on Good and Evil
For the record, I refuse to believe the devil or satan or whoever you call this dark angel, created by God represents evil. In my eyes, even the devil's original nature is good.
For God is actually the creator of good and evil. Check the Old Testament.
As well, neither the devil nor satan actually are mentioned to in the New Testament except as statement made by Jesus and others e.g. "Satan get behind me" which implies an internal moral struggle to control egoistic impulses with respect to power and control that Satan promised if Jesus were to exercise his divine powers to control others and become "King of the Jews".
Ergo, this duality of God as representative of Good and the devil as representative of Evil is neo-Platonian and thus was influenced Christian doctrine to the point of becoming dogma. The sames goes for the concept of an immortal soul, which has almost become a doctrine which is non-Biblical.
As well, Good and Evil never existed before human existence. Rather, good and evil are concepts thought up by men, and this includes the thought of good and evil existing before man's existence. Thus, I am sympathetic to the Jewish God.
Perhaps the real reason for Jesus was God's way of making up for all the violence he either meted on humanity or got his followers to mete on other people. However, I refuse to be a martyr for Christ.
As a Buddhist, I object to the violence done in the name of Jesus. This includes child abuse done in the name of Jesus, which is not Christian.
For any fundamentalist Christian parents who subject their children to violence in the name of their God, but call it discipline do not know what discipline actually means. Indeed, discipline done in anger too is violence.
Hopefully from this little rant of mine you can understand that a parent who disciplines their child in anger is not doing God a favor.
What has this to do with good and evil? Well, I tend to believe that a person is capable of great evil yet also of great good.
Even so, I also believe that if a person who is good shall become a good person, so too may a bad man, once he turns over to the cause of good, be it as a Christian, Jew, or Muslim, as well as a Buddhist, a Hindu, a pagan, a Wiccan, or even a La Vey Satanist.
Originally posted December 20, 2012 at 0310H
For God is actually the creator of good and evil. Check the Old Testament.
As well, neither the devil nor satan actually are mentioned to in the New Testament except as statement made by Jesus and others e.g. "Satan get behind me" which implies an internal moral struggle to control egoistic impulses with respect to power and control that Satan promised if Jesus were to exercise his divine powers to control others and become "King of the Jews".
Ergo, this duality of God as representative of Good and the devil as representative of Evil is neo-Platonian and thus was influenced Christian doctrine to the point of becoming dogma. The sames goes for the concept of an immortal soul, which has almost become a doctrine which is non-Biblical.
As well, Good and Evil never existed before human existence. Rather, good and evil are concepts thought up by men, and this includes the thought of good and evil existing before man's existence. Thus, I am sympathetic to the Jewish God.
Perhaps the real reason for Jesus was God's way of making up for all the violence he either meted on humanity or got his followers to mete on other people. However, I refuse to be a martyr for Christ.
As a Buddhist, I object to the violence done in the name of Jesus. This includes child abuse done in the name of Jesus, which is not Christian.
For any fundamentalist Christian parents who subject their children to violence in the name of their God, but call it discipline do not know what discipline actually means. Indeed, discipline done in anger too is violence.
Hopefully from this little rant of mine you can understand that a parent who disciplines their child in anger is not doing God a favor.
What has this to do with good and evil? Well, I tend to believe that a person is capable of great evil yet also of great good.
Even so, I also believe that if a person who is good shall become a good person, so too may a bad man, once he turns over to the cause of good, be it as a Christian, Jew, or Muslim, as well as a Buddhist, a Hindu, a pagan, a Wiccan, or even a La Vey Satanist.
Originally posted December 20, 2012 at 0310H
20130730
Why My Buddhism Turned the Devil into a Dharma Protector (Satire)
This morning I am moved to write about religion, both Buddhist and Christian. If you have an aversion to such things, feel free to stop reading right now because the following prose is beyond your comprehension. Otherwise, please be warned: I am writing from the viewpoint of a Japanese Buddhist. All I can add to this, is in my writing, anything is possible. >:)
So I'm going to start with Jesus, because his story gets a lot of press these days.
Suffice it to say, Jesus did these things: feed the poor, clothe the homeless, cure psychosomatic illness.
Not once in the Bible did I read about him saying, "Persecute homosexuals and other sinners." He never diabolized sin to that extent. Rather, this is dogma of church people who mix up the Old Testament stories about Lot with the New Testament.
In fact, he freed sinners from the diabolizing of people that the Jews did to sinners, which led the early Jewish nation to become a tribe of warriors.
IMO Christianity borrowed heavily from pagans such as Plato and Aristotle, so much so that good and evil became personified as god and satan -- as though they were friend and enemy of Christians.
For Christians, good and evil ae extremes; there is no middle ground.
It's stuff like that makes me glad I was born Buddhist, because Buddhism is the middle ground, and good and evil the result of what each sentient being create.
I don't open myself to spiritual attack from demons by meditating because such a thing is ridiculous to a Buddhist -- we are not devil worshippers; we are worshippers of truth.
Yes, I am suggesting that Christians who use the satanism card to diabolize other faiths as pagan are authors of lies, because their lies began with denying the syncretic roots of Christianity.
In contrast, Buddhism was not founded by the Buddha. Rather, it was renamed by Christian and secular scholars alike in the modern age. For it is the Buddhadharma that was founded by the Buddha over 2500 years ago to address the problems of the nascent Hindu religion called Santanadharma, which was renamed Hinduism by modern Western scholars.
Dharma has many meanings to a Buddhist such as law or teaching. Its meditative techniques work, even without the spiritual teachings of the Dharma. However, meditation works more efficiently with those teachings to guide the meditator.
In contrast, the history of Christianity shows the Church declaring Gnostics to be anathema to their cause, solely because Gnosis is not subject to the control and power of Christians e.g. only elite members of the Church are allowed to "know God" so thoroughly that you become a Bishop or even the Pope.
Gnostics were considered enemies of the State to both Byzantium, the Eastern Roman Empire that followed Greek rituals of Christianity, and the Western Roman Empire that followed Roman ones, but mainly to Byzantium. For the Western Roman Empire's enemies were mainly Gothic, Norman and Vandal mercenaries who practiced a heretical form of Christianity.
Suffice it to say that under these conditions, Gnostic meditative practices were forgotten when Byzantine armies crushed them in the Middle East. It is even said that the libraries of Alexandria in Egypt were put to the torch by a Coptic Pope to ensure that Gnosis was never to be freely available to Gnostics, let alone pagans.
Meanwhile in India, wherever the Buddhadharma spread, local gods were subjugated and added to the Buddhist pantheon of divinities who pledged to protect the Buddha. Thus, when Western civilization entered the Dark Ages, the East became enlightened by the Buddhadharma with the Santanadharma advocates making the Buddha one of its many gods, leading to the famous Hindu-Buddhist university of Nalanda and the spread of Santanadharma into Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines).
Perhaps, the proto-Polynesians may have took to the sea so that their gods would not be subject to control by invaders.
In any case, by the time the darkness that befell Western civilization was cast off during the Renaissance, religious ignorance forced Galileo to recant and corruption arose within the Papacy to the point where bestiality, incest and murder became part and parcel of intrigues arising from Christianity's inability to control human desire. IMO this was because Christianity considered the world evil and especially the body as a tool of sin.
Yet, if God made the world, then everything in it is his creation, and thus is good. This even includes the human soul, if both it and God exist. Furthermore, sin is not the same as evil. It is alike to evil karma i.e. the fruit of actions associated with the negative emotions and feelings such as anger, fear, lust, and other confusing feelings.
Even ignorance of god does not make a person evil. Only what he creates by what he does and says may cause the rise of confusion due to negative emotions. This is known as "evil passions" to the Buddhists, and also includes the mental calculations a person makes before she acts on them to make it so in the world.
To a Buddhist, a god being a Dharma protector of the Buddha is the protector of the Buddhadharma. Thus such a divine being is a friend of the Buddha, much as Jesus is a friend of Christians, whose angels protect them from birth. The only difference is, the bodhisattvas, gods and other Dharma protectors all protect the Buddhadharma. A wise Buddhist knows that they do not exist in this reality and that he would thus be foolish to worship any one of them including the Buddha.
If the cosmology of Buddhism actually exists, then it is not in the real world but in the mind of fervent worshippers who may not grasp the symbolism but worship them out of respect for all things divine, especially the Buddhadharma which enshrine the Four Noble Truths.
Such respect is sometimes mistaken by Christians as blind worship akin to paganism, due to their ignorance about Buddhism, which sadly is due to their sole reliance on the Bible. More enlightened Christians have studied Buddhism and have compared it to the Protestant form of Christianity called Methodism minus Jesus.
Indeed, in most Asian countries where Christianity is preached, the word "God" is often replaced with that Asian nation's most often worshipped god, e.g. in Chinese Taoism with the lesser gods being akin to angels and saints. Though, in Japan, Christianity is not as easy to sell because of the Japanese myth that their people are born of the gods.
Thus many of the New Religions in Japan have a corrupted form of God speaking through the founder and even his edicts are made through spirit writing, which predates Pentacostalism's corruption by occultism when they added shamanistic practices to their worship. Of course, most Pentacostals will deny occultism and shamanism in their religious practice, because Christians deny that their religion is of this world.
Yet most of the successful Protestant sects borrow heavily from worldly sources e.g. Billy Graham and other televangelists. Though, Mr. Graham's Christianity is his own, and is thus non-denominational. He actually believes in an immortal soul which is derived from neo-Platonism (a form of paganism developed before the Dark Ages which was revived during the Renaissance. It's not Biblical though, because the New Testament only mentioned "everlasting life", which has nothing to do with immortality, which is more associated with alchemy (an occult art) than with religion.
In Buddhism, the closest one gets to immortality is reincarnation, which has nothing to do with souls reincarnating because Buddhism denies the existence of a soul. Therefore, reincarnation is not about immortality of a soul but it is about karma. For only one's actions are affected by time itself: the karma (actions) I created in the past affect my present condition and my present actions (karma) affect my future (destiny). Indeed, there is no fixed point in time as far as karma goes.
Today, I am a Buddhist, quite possibly due to past karma, both in my lifetime and in the lifetimes of previous incarnations. I might have been a god, a demon, a man or woman, an animal, a hungry ghost or even a hell being. When I die, I am sure to be reborn in the Pure Land. But for now, just sitting is enough for me.
Posted via Blogaway
20050521
Spirituality Scares the Ignorant Masses
It's amazing that when faced with even a mention of spirituality, the ignorant ridicule the messenger.
My suspicion is that the unenlightened have persecuted the enlightened more often in history than we care to admit.
This may be at the root of the persecution of Gnostics since the Third Century by the Church.
It may even explain the Inquisition (jealousy of the syncretism of Judaism, Islam and Christianity in Spain) and modern-day Protestant myths about other sects and religions, especially the myths about "satanism."
Little does the average Christian know that satan has been bound since the Christ's death. For Christ dealt with the devil's work and bound him.
To believe that satan is bound is supported by Christian doctrine; to believe otherwise - that a personification of evil walks among us is a myth of mass media and diabolic fear-mongering.
Persnally I don't believe in satanism, I believe in Buddhism, and its traditions are free of belief in satan.
For the concept of non-self suggests that satan does not exist, being a spiritual being purported to "live forever" i.e. an exceptionally long time described as "immortal".
Since immortality as a form of permanence is impossible due to the Buddhist concept of non-self, satan does not exist except as an archetype or a symbol of Christian dualistic thought (the symbol of evil versus God as symbol of good).
For I do not view satan as a personification of evil but as a symbol of diabolism.
Within the confines of reality, satanism is a mass media myth that people believe in either for "thrills" or social control.
Regarding social control, belief in satanism helps solidify group dynamics within a religious organization provided checks and balances are observed to prevent abuse of power by religious leaders.
However, it is diabolism to abuse the trust of members of religious bodies including any groups of religious instruction formed by Christians in positions of authority, whether it is a home meeting or a church.
To further emphasis my point on diabolism, I present this website called Children of the Matrix, and its page on "Spiritual" satanism and "christian" conmen for review.
Please note how important maintaining disbelief when viewing it as it may induce a strong denial regarding the topic material.
Any suspension of disbelief that promotes antipathy towards Christianity is not my intent as I do not believe a religion is responsible for what "wolves in sheep's clothing" do behind closed doors.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biggestsecret/matrix/matrix16.htm
Commentary:
Note: see http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net for disclaimer. This article appears to be propaganda.
Illuminati is a code word for the 1 percent that want to profit from mass media propaganda.
With regard to the charges again Prescott Bush, I looked up the Union Banking Corporation and found this article on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Banking_Corporation
The bulk of the article linked in this article is wrong about the Bush family.
"Rumors about the alleged Nazi 'ties' of the late Prescott Bush ... have circulated widely through the internet in recent years. These charges are untenable and politically motivated. Despite some early financial dealings between Prescott Bush and a Nazi industrialist named Fritz Thyssen (who was arrested by the Nazi regime in 1938 and imprisoned during the war), Prescott Bush was neither a Nazi nor a Nazi sympathizer.”
However, they are right in criticizing Billy Graham for manufacturing the religious propaganda of "the immortal soul", which is a syncretism from neo-Platonic sources that the early Church fathers borrow, and then instituted as dogma.
This particular syncretism gets condoned by resorting to the Bible to back up a pagan idea called "immortality". Immortal life is not mentioned in the Bible but "eternal life" in heaven with Jesus is mentioned in that strongly symbolic chapter called "Revelations".
I do not endorse anything David Icke wrote, as the link regarding Children of the Matrix is his work of art, and looks like he cherry picked all the dirt on his targets of derision regarding the richest people of America.
Conspiracy theories like this are great for people who have biases against American organized religion, rich people, and televangelists. I don't believe anything that I can't find anything to debunk. It's not propaganda to give people choices, for it's important to not make a choice but to dance like David.
YMMV
Originally written: May 21, 2005 at 1052H
Edited and updated: February 4, 2013 at 1017H
My suspicion is that the unenlightened have persecuted the enlightened more often in history than we care to admit.
This may be at the root of the persecution of Gnostics since the Third Century by the Church.
It may even explain the Inquisition (jealousy of the syncretism of Judaism, Islam and Christianity in Spain) and modern-day Protestant myths about other sects and religions, especially the myths about "satanism."
Little does the average Christian know that satan has been bound since the Christ's death. For Christ dealt with the devil's work and bound him.
To believe that satan is bound is supported by Christian doctrine; to believe otherwise - that a personification of evil walks among us is a myth of mass media and diabolic fear-mongering.
Persnally I don't believe in satanism, I believe in Buddhism, and its traditions are free of belief in satan.
For the concept of non-self suggests that satan does not exist, being a spiritual being purported to "live forever" i.e. an exceptionally long time described as "immortal".
Since immortality as a form of permanence is impossible due to the Buddhist concept of non-self, satan does not exist except as an archetype or a symbol of Christian dualistic thought (the symbol of evil versus God as symbol of good).
For I do not view satan as a personification of evil but as a symbol of diabolism.
Within the confines of reality, satanism is a mass media myth that people believe in either for "thrills" or social control.
Regarding social control, belief in satanism helps solidify group dynamics within a religious organization provided checks and balances are observed to prevent abuse of power by religious leaders.
However, it is diabolism to abuse the trust of members of religious bodies including any groups of religious instruction formed by Christians in positions of authority, whether it is a home meeting or a church.
To further emphasis my point on diabolism, I present this website called Children of the Matrix, and its page on "Spiritual" satanism and "christian" conmen for review.
Please note how important maintaining disbelief when viewing it as it may induce a strong denial regarding the topic material.
Any suspension of disbelief that promotes antipathy towards Christianity is not my intent as I do not believe a religion is responsible for what "wolves in sheep's clothing" do behind closed doors.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biggestsecret/matrix/matrix16.htm
Commentary:
Note: see http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net for disclaimer. This article appears to be propaganda.
Illuminati is a code word for the 1 percent that want to profit from mass media propaganda.
With regard to the charges again Prescott Bush, I looked up the Union Banking Corporation and found this article on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Banking_Corporation
The bulk of the article linked in this article is wrong about the Bush family.
"Rumors about the alleged Nazi 'ties' of the late Prescott Bush ... have circulated widely through the internet in recent years. These charges are untenable and politically motivated. Despite some early financial dealings between Prescott Bush and a Nazi industrialist named Fritz Thyssen (who was arrested by the Nazi regime in 1938 and imprisoned during the war), Prescott Bush was neither a Nazi nor a Nazi sympathizer.”
However, they are right in criticizing Billy Graham for manufacturing the religious propaganda of "the immortal soul", which is a syncretism from neo-Platonic sources that the early Church fathers borrow, and then instituted as dogma.
This particular syncretism gets condoned by resorting to the Bible to back up a pagan idea called "immortality". Immortal life is not mentioned in the Bible but "eternal life" in heaven with Jesus is mentioned in that strongly symbolic chapter called "Revelations".
I do not endorse anything David Icke wrote, as the link regarding Children of the Matrix is his work of art, and looks like he cherry picked all the dirt on his targets of derision regarding the richest people of America.
Conspiracy theories like this are great for people who have biases against American organized religion, rich people, and televangelists. I don't believe anything that I can't find anything to debunk. It's not propaganda to give people choices, for it's important to not make a choice but to dance like David.
YMMV
Originally written: May 21, 2005 at 1052H
Edited and updated: February 4, 2013 at 1017H
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)