Eddie Holden Religion

RELIGION WHAT A SUBJECT, ITS MAN MADE, AND RULE BY FEAR.

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Religion is a very tricky thing to talk about, you can soon offend a person who is deeply in to a religious faith, of any kind .

My self I say I am a realist, some would say a non Believer or would say you are an atheist.

Well l do not worship Statues, Icons ,Idols or Myth's l say is that if I can not touch it, smell it,or talk to it, its not there,

All I say is you bring me a religion that's does not work for its own ends, but for the people, and not man made, as every religion in this world of ours is man made with power to control people .

But over the years people have become very educated and history of how religions started,plus the easy access to travel, and to visit the sites of other religions, some people began to question the truth, and myths, but those who have deep religious faiths, I go along with that if it helps them to coup with the world happenings, I believe no one has the right to tell anyone to what they should believe in ,or not believe in.

As for me I follow more to the history ,and not how things that were taught me at school and Sunday school, some how they do not add up, lots of things that were told to us when we were young, and the teachers were sincere of what they taught us about the Bible and holy places,

But as a young man and travel to Army's expense of the world I saw most holy places of the world,

I always had at the back of my mind that a lot of things were doubtful.

Then reading a lot of history books, and seeing places for real things in the Bible did not ring quite true , and some things could not have happened at all, but some things really did happen but not as told in the Bible.

Lets take one of the most prominent, Mosses saying let my people go, meaning from slavery,this is really not true as at that time, Egypt was in a great grop failer, and could not feed them selves let alone their slaves, they were really kicked out.

But as Mosses went he took with him all the food that they could carry ,and live stock, so that left the poor old Egyptians with less.

Now the fable of Mosses crossing the Red Sea, well you might believe it, but have you been to the Red Sea, its one of the deepest Seas and its very wide, l have been through the Red Sea, now holding back all that Sea Water and the weight of it, just think of the two sea walls of water,about two hundred miles and every cubic yard weights over a ton and the weight behind, and for about 5,000 people with cattle children,walking no more than 10 miles a day

So half way mark you camp for the night, by the time the first get to the centre others are still on land and not entered yet, for the final lot to cross would take about forty days, so you see it never happened.

But just lately it has been established the way Mosses really went not the Red Sea but a the Reed Sea, or Sea of Reeds

This Reed Sea has finally been excavated around the edges,which are the BIITER AND SWEET WATER LAKES beside the SUEZ Channel,

At the time Mosses was in the area an earthquake in the Med and distroyed many towns and drained the lakes so it let Mosses cross them, but after about four hours the water returned and trapped the Egyptians.

This has been proven as horse harnesses and Chariot wheel hubs have been excavated around the site just recently.

Now which route did Mosses take he a choice of four,one to follow the Med coast to the promised land,one further inland to the dead sea, and one straight to Jordan across the Sinai desert,or go down towards AQUABA,

Acording to history of the Bible he chose to go the Aquaba route, this also brought in Mount Sinai, well l have been watching a program on T,V, called the naked archaeologyist, and he is getting to the truth what realy happened, now the Mount Sinai that l visited, and thousands of other people, has now been proven that this was not the site,he is visiting all the other known sites and religious back grounds , so how many more porkies are there in the bible.

Now this brings in another story of the Ten Commandments,this is said he carved them from the rock for law and order for his tribe, if they were carved in stone l would have thought his masons did it on his say so, but thats a big if that they were carved, you say why do l say that.

Now in 1946-1948 I was in Palestine trying to keep Jews and Palestinians apart, we pig in the middle were being shot at and blown up from both sides not a nice thought.

While I was there I visited all the known holy sites, but in no museum there is nothing about the ten commandments not even a chip of one.

Now knowing the Jews they wo

uld have some how preserved these or parts of them, not a mention anywhere, so did they really exist or just another myth of history.

Well just recently historians have come across evidence that the ten commandments were inserted into the bible by the Catholics for their own use, so mosses did not carve them as told, but the catholics deny this they would wouldn't they.

Its like the TURRIN SHROUD, which has been proven a fake, twice this has happened, the last time it was tested 1992, and still will not believe it, yes the catholics are a law to them selves.

Well looking through the history books it seems the Hebrews are the first to start a religion of worship to Jehovah an un known god of that time BC 2,000 THATS THE FIRST TIME l can see religion mentioned that's under Abraham of the Hebrews,it looks as if they are nomads at this stage then they became slaves to the Egyptians.

Now the Egyptians had Gods to worship of human body's with animal heads, and they also worshipped the Sun, l suppose you could call it religion, but that's how it was in those days.

Also while l was in Palestine we had an assignment to travel from Jerusalem down to Aquaba, now we are going to travel in three trucks loaded with all our supplies and ammo and guns for protection , this assignment is to raid Bedouin tribes men for the smuggling of arms into Palestine.

We are following the route of Lawrence of Arabia and may be Mosses, as mount sinai is one of the places of stop over.

So its Bible and History all rolled into one on this trip, we are fully equipped for the freezing nights in the desert, and it does get very cold at night, and the stillness not a sound, but the stars are brighter out hear.

Water holes that we come across are guarded and you pay for the water,maybe they were dug by Mosses,or maybe Lawrence who really knows.

Now if Mosses really did come this way,what did his tribe live on for thirty years, its completely Baron nothing grows,people of his tribe must have died of starvation, not like Lawrence he had a battle then went back to base and replenished his stores and off again, Mosses could not do that,so did Mosses really come this way or did he take another route, we are talking of hundreds of miles of nothing but sand dunes and harsh wind sand storms a big question mark ???

As l said at the beginning there were four routes he could have taken, you see mount sinai is not that friendly of a place

I can hear most of you saying , are but you talking about Hebrew religion , well yes I am but in a round about way the Christian religion stems from this as we get further Jesus Christ was born a Jew so everything must be told.

Well Mosses must have taken one of the four routs to the promised land as he called it, but I do not think Mosses would have gone,if he new the turmoil that was to happen to his tribe.

Well he did reach hills that boarders the promised land and then handed his tribe over to Joshua,as the story goes he died there, what I can make out it was'nt a easy walk in to the promised land , the Philistines put up a fight, but Hebrews got a foot hold and held on to it but not for long.

But in the mean time it has now become Israel and Palestine, and Judah, so we now have three tribes at each others throats, and is supposed to become the holy land, well lets put you in the picture ever since the Hebrews walked in to now known Palestine in 1,200 BC and this is now 2,006 a space of 3,206 years and they are still fighting over the same piece of land.

This must be the longest ever Holy War, and all about religion nothing more, what the religion of the Philistines was in 1,200 BC is not mentioned anywhere, perhaps Idol worship.

First we had Joshua, then Saul who was made King of the Hebrews, then David came along,he lead the Hebrews to victory against the Jebusites to take Jerusalem, then Solomon he builds a temple to Jehovah at Jerusalem.

Not long after that the King of the Assyrians destory the Kingdom of Israel, and leads the Israelites into captivity, so on the whole the poor old Jews are having a rough time of it all the way through it does not say where they were taken too.

There is no mention of the people of Judah, as the you know the Hebrews spit in two Israelites and Judah. Now Nebuchadnezzar he captures Jerusalem and take the people of Judah in to captivity to Babylon. At this stage another religion is about start, Buddha a man from a very rich family in fact a Prince Siddhartha Gautama, desides to make a religion BC 525 and another great man of the time Confucius he lived about this time too, but Buddha became a great symbol in religion, he created buddhistism that spread through India and far east. Buddha died BC 488,AND people of walks of life have Little statues of Buddhas in their homes more than the crucifix's, l think its because Buddha is thought to bring peace and tranquil to the household. I say everyone to his own, now we come to the great myths of Jesus christ .

The date now is 4 BC it is said to be the true date of the birth of Christ but what month no one knows, as the story goes it was winter with snow on the ground, well if it was, as the snow falls round about April March time out there, l have seen it thats Bethlehem area, now this child born in Bethlehem to Joseph and Mary were the tribe of David, as at that time known as the City of David, and Jewish or Hebrew at that time, but later it became Palestinian, then a Christian church was built over the cave where he was born or supposed to have been born, l say this as there were at the time a lot of caves where cattle were housed and liveing quarters over the top, as the heat from animals in winter kept them warm, and in some little villages they still have cattle under the house. After he was born his mother said he is the son of God but before he was born he was the Son of Joseph, she named him Jesus well at that time it was quite a common name, and she said its a virgin birth well tell that to a Gynecologist, and angels were singing well l have slept out there and the rocks around the city, if its windy the wind whines around the rocks like playing a tune, angels playing harps, then theres a bright star, well Hailey's comet was about at that time, and the three wise men, if were as such it would have been at least a week for them to arrive, then was Joseph and mary gone by then to Egypt, and why did they go to Egypt. Not because Herod said behead all male children, thats a myth, in facted he said kill his own sons, so that they could not take his Kingdom from him thats the facts, not kill all male children thats a big myth, my reading of history joseph and mary took young Jesus to Egypt for his education as the Egyptians were very far advanced than anyone else at that time. Well now l will tell some facts of Mary and Joseph going to Bethlehem, l had the luck of doing a patrol from Nazerith to Bethlehem that's eighty miles of rough terain up and down near mountain hills, no made up roads just camel tracks, well our job is to search all wells, for ilegal arms being stored in them. So our bright boy of a Major who is going to lead us this eighty miles, and all he said was we are going to walk on holy ground where Mary and Joseph trodd, some bright spark said who's pregnant. Well we are in the army, now this took us roughly forteen days may be a few more, well we are super fit soldiers and three good meals a day ,with foot wear known as ammo boots, now our Mary is pregnant and eight mounths, well could any woman walk eighty miles at that stage of being pregnant, no of cause not and over that terain. Now l am saying she might have been in her first stage of being pregnant, but not eight mounths so l think they arrived there much sooner to sign in for the censors, and for her to have the baby in the stable was the done thing in those days as it was out of the way, and people were not around in the stables, as history says most baby's were born in stables, living quarters were over the stables, and it happened in this case, maybe it was a inn at the time who knows as this place is a cave carved out of chalk rock with a church built over the top now if its the same cave who knows , the last time l was there was with the wife on a tour of the holy land and there were guns everywhere then nothing changed since 1946-1948 , and its 2006 now and still fighting, thats religion for you in a holy land. while l was there in the army we had to sleep in the open fields and terain, the angels were supposed to have come at the birth, well the wind dose blow around the rocks and whistles, so angels singing, now till she had the baby no mention of him being the son of God, till after the birth, was she a little strange after birth who can tell, l think after the birth they went off to Egypt to get him a education and on his return to Nazerith he out shone the others and a different way of thinking or was it a different Jesus as it was a common name, while l was in palestine the dead sea scoles were found in 1947 a little heards boy found them now they have changed the cause of riligious history whats been un raveled so far, but the Vatican will not exsept it yet pity, but then again it would under mine their hold over their followers. I can say this a lot of money is being made out of this pilgrimage to Bethlehem , now you are going to say why did l go with my views, thats easy, if you are there at the time why not visit these sites, at least l can have point of view as for the people who have never been there can only read whats in books, it would be like going to Arizona and not see the grand canyan. Thats a little bit more of my point of view of religion at that time, l also visited other sites as well of Arab religion like the golden dome Mosque in Jerusalem , but l will come to that later.

Now having been to Nazerith l could not find anything to say that Jesus Christ lived here or lived in this street, or prayed here, not in 1946-1948 , and the church he was suppoed have preached in, and thrown out for his different way of preaching about God, so was this a rebel Jesus and upsetting the higharacky from the begining, so he took his self off to the sea of gallily, were he meet his mates and formed a new religion that the King Herod did not like, so a ransome was put on his head, but he carried on preaching for a few years but the King caught up with him, and was crusified, but was taken down long before he was dead, if the story is true, he was bathed and rested in a tomb, but three days later, he was seen walking in a garden, now if he rose into heaven how could he be seen walking, and l think he went off to Turkey with his mother and wife and started a monestery, now the holy sepulcure was out side the city walls at this time, where today theres quite a lot all in rows, was one of these used for him, as the one now thats in the church is of mable, nothing like the ones out side the walls, so was this one imported to this church by the catholics, as the ones outside are of sand stone caved out the natural rock, whos telling pork'ys. I have been many times to the holy sepulcure and try to work it all out, there is so much to see, you can not see it all in one day visit, not if you are trying to study history.

There are people who believe completly in what is written down in the Bible, OK l go along with that, so long as they do not force it on to me, now when Jesus traveled around preaching, it is said he performed miricals in heeling people, well if he did, l would think he had ques miles long wailting to be cured, its like our faith heelers of today, well in the end they end up seeing a Doctor, or Surgeon, also it was like feeding the five thousand, with five fishes and three loaves of bread or was the other way round what ever, now the hill is still a tourist place, l think he sent out to the people that he would be preaching on a certain day, and bring your food with you, now after the preachings, he said lets eat and so they all sat down to eat, and Jesus Christ sat down with his followers and ate the fishes and bread , while all the other people were eating their food, so in a round about way , feeding the fivethousand, l wonder how far the fish and bread would have gone with that lot , a lick each.

Now Jesus Christ is getting under the skin of King Herod, and now he sets off to Jerusalem, well the welcome a bit iffy , as he was not liked in the first place, now a bounty on his head, so a court hearing is waiting for him, well he rode in on a Donkey, and people spead leaves on the ground for him to ride over like a king, now was this in rejoiceing or was it mockery, l think the later, now tried and found guilty,he now has to carry his cross to the top of the hill, of Golgotha, now perhaps you know it as Calvary, well not quite true Calvary comes from Calvaria which in Latin translation Golgotha so now you know, the ancient story is that Adams skull was buried there, you believe what you like, but l will say someone is making a few shekculs out of these tours, now hears a funny thing, all the promernent people of that time had busts caved of themselves, and not one of Christ anywhere, l have seen all the rest out there.

Now its Jesus Christ hes gone its anybody's quest where too its per speculation, well its been said he went with mother and wife mary to Turkey to start a monestry, well its well known his mother did go there, it is also said he traveled to France and settle there with his wife, and they are suposed to have had a son, theres nothing so far in the dead sea scrolls to say where he went, but there is a mention of marriage, but the catholics poo, poo that, well they would, they want to keep celerbacy going.

Its all go for St Peter now off to Rome, thats the start of the Catholic Church, or Catholicism, it spread very quickly, the Monks took it up, and women became Nuns of Holy orders, and the Romans also started to believe in it, and it was known as christainty, but it was an other 350 years before it got going in England, as the Romans were leaveing in come the Monks, and no one at that time could read or write only a few , so they ruled by fear, other wise they put the fear of God in to the people, and most scriptures were in Latin so the poor old peasants just followed what they said, l say they brain washed them.

Before l go any further l have got to go back a bit to when another religion started in India in BC1500, it is Hinduism it was founded by the Aryan invaders in India in the Vedic religion they worship many Gods and Karma is the law within one life and carried over to the next, there are many off shoots to this religion, one is the worship of the sacred cow, there are three ways of worship, the Temple,Domestic, and Congregational, they take a very placid out look on life. So now we are getting a few religions under our belt, (1)Hewbrew 2000BC, (2)Egyptian 2000BC, Sun God, and Animals with Human Heads, (3)Hinduism 1500BC, (4) Buddhism 500BC,(5)Christianty 400AD, (6)Islam 622AD, Mohammadism, (7)Shintoism 800AD, (8) Sikhism 1500AD, as l go further l will take each one in turn.

So we can establish that christianity started to take off round about 400 AD in England, l supose before then it was pagonism, the worship of all sorts, even the sacrifice of children and virgin women, just to please the Gods who ever they thought they were, looking back at these Monks or what ever they were in the first place, one took off to Ireland, he was called St Patric, Scotland St Andrew, Wales must press on as then they came in there hundreds the Normandy Monks, the Benidictain Monks, and the Cisterine Monks, all came building big monestries all round the country , and ruled the people with fear, they were all should be celibris, but the dear old Henry V111, when he knocked down these places, it was not as they thought should be, because women were in these monestries unbeknown to the out side world .

Records of the down fall of these monesteries by Henry V111, KNOWN as the refermation and the Catholic church had proved that all was not as it should be, think we must thank Henry for this as we could now be like other country's that are still under Catholic domination, squeazeing the last penny out of the poor, and they call it christianty, and they still think the Pope is a living God. But our Henry started what is now known as the Church of England and not so harsh in their teachings, and he also had the Bible wrote in English so everyone who could read, and it was easy for the preachers of that time, and made avaleable to everyone who wanted one in the home, so that was a great step foreward. Then over time off shoots started to emerge like the Methodest, Pilgrimes, much later Salvation Army, and Church Army, plus many more, they all wanted a slice of the pie.

I think most people who are reading this are saying, by he's against religion, sorry but l am not, all l am pointing out what goes on behind the seens, people must face facts that religion is big bussiness, and the Bible is still the best selling book in the world, as theres something in it for everyone. But l do think it needs up dateing to whats been found and proven true , so these things need correcting. Well what a turn up for the Bible, in todays Sunday THE MAIL 12-3-2006, a big archaeological discovery of all time, the true story of Judas Iscariot has turned up on parchment, and has been date proofed by carbon, this as it reads is nothing near the teachings of the Bible, the Catholics are already saying its not true, it has always been told that Judas, went to the soldiers and pointed Jesus out on his own free will, but now it is in these manuscripts that Jesus ordered him to go and tell them where he was, the parchments are of papyrus and that was used at that time for writing on and its in the ancient language of Coptic this was the language of the Egyptian Christians same as Jesus spoke as he could speak three languages at that time. So from now on to be a Judas is not being a traiter, the churches do not like this and at the moment they are standing back and wait and see. Well the dead sea scrolls, the catholics will not except them , and now these , no way will they except them, they are frightened of loosing the faithful as they call them, the rule of fear would be greatly deminshed. There has been so much written down on here say that the truth got very distorted over time, but it must now be corrected , l can see the Catholics putting up a big fight over this, but it could also distroy the way Catholics go to confesion and bible readings.

It has come to light that old manuscripts, of the Jewish museum in Jerusalem, plus the dead sea scrolls, shed a lot more light on to when the bible was first wrote down, at one time it was thought that Mosses had a lot to do with it but now the writing is all the same, so one man did it in the begining way atfer Mosses more like A,D 350, as it has come to light that about all of Mosses tribe could neither read or write, in this last 50 years a lot of reseach has gone into this, so from now on the church has got to realy tell the truth, if not they will loose even more followers. My next person is Saint Helena the mother of Emperor Constantine, and thats an eye opener. Well after she turned christian, she went to Isreal and Palestine to do a lot of searching about christ, this is round about AD 312, one of the things she did was to build a church over the cave where christ was born, or think he was born, l think her aim was to make money, after that it was the finding the wooden cross, or parts of it, which she we think she did, at least it was wood from a cross, so we must except it at face value, also she is surposed to have found the holy sepulchre, well thats a bit iffy as the one Jesus was put in to was out side the city walls, and this one is in the city walls, its up to the people what they beleave, as this lady Saint Helena as she is now called for her work for when she turned to be a christian, brought all these things to light, the Catholics then made her a Saint, but in the long run, it's money, every holy place has a price, and it all goes to the Catholic church, and also at this time christianity has taken off and in full swing, the Romans are also turning in great numbers to this way of thinking.

The biggest write up so far, it's called , "The GREATEST STORY EVER RETOLD" Daily Mail April 7 2006, the manuscripts that have been unfolded and tranlated, and carbon proofed and data proofed, that they were written at the same time as the other scriptures roughly between 120 to 202AD like all the others, and Judas Iscariot was not a villain but a hero, he was Jesus right hand man this manuscript is wrote on thirteen sheets of papyrus and has been traslated from the old writings to modern, the Vatican is going round in curcles as this has realy up set the apple cart, in these manuscripts it claims Jesus organised his own crucifixion and enlisted Judas to help him, there is so much more truth thats come out of this that it would take me a week to to write it all down, l am hoping that a book will be printed all about this, these scrolls were found in simarler as the dead sea scrolls , l might put in later as theres so much to read,a bit more truth but can the Catholics handle it.

Well in this month of April 2006 the papers have been full of the new break through of the scrolls and the new book out, THE DA VINCI CODE, the Catholics and the Church Of England are all up in arms over these new prodictions, its put the bible out on a limb, l think the truth hurts and they don't like it, they are calling on all church goers to keep to the bible reading, and calling these scrolls fakes, well they don't tell the perfect truth in the bible do they, now come on you of the christain faith can you honesty say that everything in the bible happened as it says, or are somethings streached a little bit or told to impress the uneducated at the time.

SATURDAY 6-5-2006 THINGS THAT ARE COMING TO LIGHT, THE VIRGIN BIRTH EARLY DOCTRINE,

Well it looks like someone mistakenly translated the true virsion of the doctrine from latin to english and other versions of it, it seems the tranlation from greek to latin and hebrew, down the line it came out to be a virgin birth, now we all know that is not possible, if you said that a gyno he would laugh you out of the sugery, it looks as if the hebrews said she was virgin that meens a young girl of marriageable age ,and as weather Joseph was the father of her child that could be and then he might have taken her as his house keeper, as she was pregnant at the time, who realy knows, and why did they go to egypt after the birth, as there was no need too, was it to get away from talk, that was said of having a child out of wedlock.