Belief Systems

I was raised in a religion that was based upon the ideas of Christianity but the ancient form of Christianity where Christians still believed in reincarnation. Kings and Queens started killing Christians who professed reincarnation because they couldn't scare them to death with hell, fire and brimstone and make them complete ignorant terrified slaves. So, they just killed people who were intelligent enough to listen to their own mystical Christian experiences. So, if you had beliefs like this you were just killed for them for centuries. So, from about the year 500 AD or sooner you had to be secret about beliefs like this in Europe especially.

Later on, the Catholics killed every man, woman and child that were Cathars in Southern France who were then a part of the Catholic Church in order to steal all their goods and lands from them.

So, persecution like is occurring now against Shia Muslims, Christians, Yazidis and secular people and Druze and all the others by Al Qaeda and ISIS has been occurring by Christians on Christians too for 2 thousand years too and only really stopped the past couple of centuries after thousands of people died in various wars between Catholics and Protestants in Europe. If you are interested in learning more study about the History of Europe regarding all this. It is one of the many reasons many Christians and others came to the U.S. so they wouldn't have to be killed in one of the wars and discriminated against in Europe or other places.

I was raised believing in Reincarnation as a means of becoming like Jesus through reincarnation. Only in my parents religion they also believed in other planets where inventions were developed in order to bring them to earth to make things better here too. So, there was this belief in cooperation between other humans living on other planets with us too, because we all came originally from the same groups of planets in the end.

So, this was very progressive indeed for the 1930s through the 1950s (I was 12 in 1960).

As a child I accepted what my parents said because they were nice people and surrounded by other people on our church that also believed this way. Also, both my parents were ministers from 1956 to 1960 and in charge of a church in downtown Los Angeles. My father stayed a minister and led a Wednesday night and sometimes Thursday and Friday night Youth Group night to about 1969 or 1970 or more.

So, I met people from all over the world who believed like us. There were also groups in Canada, England, Germany, Switzerland, France and Australia a lot who believed like my parents too. There were churches throughout the U.S. and Canada too then in the 1950s.

Long about 1969 when I was 21 there was a dividing of the way between me and the church because at that point I began to see all churches as being pretty hypocritical. Though this has always been true of all churches around the world, as an older adult now I tend to see churches in general a lot like families.

Are families perfect? No. They are definitely not.

Are churches perfect? NO. The cause millions of people to go crazy and to kill themselves and others around the world every single year.

Are families Good? Sometimes.

Are churches Good? Sometimes.

So, churches and families are both sometimes not going to drive you insane and cause your suicide or death.

Caveat emptor (let the buyer beware).