{"content":[{"text":"marvellous that nobody has any excuse for not believing firmly in it not even the uneducated and naive person.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":-0.00023,"width":0.894281,"height":0.015784}},{"text":"The doctrine that God guides people to the truth he has revealed logically implies that if you find your faith is weakening \n then you are calling God a liar so doubting even a bit is a grave sin. Mormons and Catholics have two incompatible faiths \n and both insist strongly that their faith has been revealed to them personally by God which shows that the doctrine is a \n deliberate lie. You would be need to be as smart and virtuous as God to know if a communication you thought was divine \n inspiration really was that so the arrogance and false humility of religion is undeniable.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.03184,"width":0.980451,"height":0.079923}},{"text":"When religion tells you that it has the word of God it is telling you that it is your duty to listen to this word and you are \n calling God a liar if you ignore it or disbelieve it. It can’t be a duty if you are entitled to doubt it as you see fit and should \n be free to! Face it, if religion were not after power it would focus on what people needed and what was right for them rather \n than on dogmas and saviours and things like the existence of God. Who cares what kind of God you believe in, be it a force \n like psychic power, a weak old man in the clouds or that God is just a metaphor for an ideal of goodness, as long as \n goodness is engendered and encouraged?","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.128049,"width":0.998208,"height":0.09595699999999999}},{"text":"The goodness of faith is the basic doctrine of each religion but faith is not good for it detests the doubting of the creed that \n it expresses itself in and when the foundation is bad so is the structure built on it. If God does miracles to guide you to a \n faith he is doing you no favours nor is he being honest! Miracles are blasphemy and religion cannot exist without hypocrisy \n so it is evil and to blame for all the wickedness worked in its name for if it didn’t exist the wickedness might not have \n happened. The only faith that is good is faith in yourself for if you believe you can succeed and be happy your life will be \n less stressful and you will find that you improve in every way. Faith in God is no substitute for this. God can inflict \n depression on you and take away what he gave you to test you. It is a sin to believe that God will build up your self-esteem \n for it mightn’t be his will. And those who like God the best are guilty of that sin. They are the proof that they don’t need \n God and are foisting an unnecessary belief on the world and asking for it to be taken seriously. What is unnecessary should \n not be taken seriously. Look at the deaths and suicides and people crippled with guilt over the god belief.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.240292,"width":0.996657,"height":0.160097}},{"text":"Christians follow Jesus who said that the most important commandment is that the Lord your God is one and you must love \n God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind (Mark 12:29-34). For Jews and Muslims this commandment is binding as \n well as it originated with the prophet Moses who got it from God. This commandment has a hidden teaching. Part of it \n declares that there is only one God. So believing in God is far more important than loving him because you can’t love him \n that much unless you believe in him first. Jesus then sanctioned the evil of dogmatism and narrowmindedness – that is why \n Catholics are expelled from the Church for saying Mary wasn’t sinless all her days and if they advocate and believe in \n murdering they will not be expelled. Dogmatism is refusing to look honestly at anything that contradicts your opinion. It is \n making a god of your opinion. It is glorifying the evil of bias. How much better it is to unpeel your eyes and go where the \n truth and facts lead you!","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.416675,"width":0.9961909999999999,"height":0.14406200000000002}},{"text":"Whoever asks you not to doubt teachings such as that a rapist who wears a condom sins more than one who does not, as \n that a child of seven can die and go to Hell to suffer forever, that it is better for hundreds of people to give their lives to \n save the pope, that Jesus should have suffered like he did for our sins, like that babies come into existence without being \n God's friends, that not having your child baptised is worse than raping the child, that sin is the worst evil of all, that the \n communion wafer is the most important person in the world, is simply vile. It shows that the Church fears the doctrines are \n evil but wants to stop people seeing that. What could be more vindictive than that?","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.577022,"width":0.9916400000000001,"height":0.09595799999999999}},{"text":"Let people guide you but you remember you don’t have to agree with anybody, pope or prophet or Jesus, for all alleged \n revelations from God are just human opinion and thinking and there is nothing intrinsically sacred about them!","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.689266,"width":0.9607399999999999,"height":0.03181899999999993}},{"text":"BOOKS CONSULTED","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.73737,"width":0.19115,"height":0.01578400000000002}},{"text":"A CATECHISM OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE, CTS, London, 1985 \n A HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, VOL 6, PART II, KANT, Frederick Copleston SJ, Doubleday/Image, New York 1964 \n AQUINAS, FC Copleston, Penguin Books, London, 1991 \n BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL, Friedrich Nietzsche, Penguin, London, 1990 \n BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, Association for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, Dublin, 1960 \n CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, Veritas, London, 1995 \n CHARITY, MEDITATIONS FOR A MONTH, Richard F Clarke SJ, Catholic Truth Society, London, 1973 \n CHRISTIANITY FOR THE TOUGH-MINDED, Edited by John Warwick Montgomery, Bethany Fellowship, Minnesota, \n 1973 \n CRISIS OF MORAL AUTHORITY, Don Cupitt, SCM Press, London, 1995 \n EVIDENCE THAT DEMANDS A VERDICT, VOL 1, Josh McDowell, Alpha, Scripture Press Foundation, Bucks, 1995 \n ECUMENICAL JIHAD, Peter Kreeft, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1996 \n GOD IS NOT GREAT, THE CASE AGAINST RELIGION, Christopher Hitchens, Atlantic Books, London, 2007 \n GOD WITHOUT RELIGION, Questioning Centuries of Accepted Truths, Sankara Saranam, Benbella, Dallas, Texas, 2008","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.76944,"width":0.991275,"height":0.224236}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}