Christian Jesus, a devil with horns, angry god, angels cavorting on clouds, demons and dervishes dancing, Mickey Mouse and the big bad wolf are folk stories and fairy tales about myths and magic.
“I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.”
― Albert Camus
Elmore James – The Sky Is Crying
These malevolent myths do more than terrify children and inspire fear.
Death Don’t Have No Mercy…
“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
― Anaïs Nin
These tall tales precipitate terror, munitions, dozens of avoidable wars and unnecessary murders.
“…I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.”
― Albert Einstein
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire, Questions sur les Miracles à M. Claparede, Professeur de Théologie à Genève, par un Proposant: Ou Extrait de Diverses Lettres de M. de Voltaire
We can do better.
Howlin’ Wolf – Dust My Broom
Education is the key.
“Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time!”
― George Carlin
David Bromberg – Will Not Be Your Fool
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
―James A. Baldwin
Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session 1983
“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
― Oscar Wilde
Stranger In A Strange Land
“Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin,
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