This is a tough realization for a large swath of the human population but it needs to happen, even as authoritarian religions need to be defunded if truth should one day prevail after such systems had very long heydays. It is the literary methodology of authoritarian religions--unforeseen by the authors behind the creation of Judaism, Christianity and Islam--meant to divinely authorize such programs that has caused radicalization of certain adherents (while certain of those programs are more egregious than others). These are those religions' followers that take their fictitious divine authorization scenarios much more to heart than the vast majority of their followers since most just want to appease and get along with them, which is really what those religions were designed to induce. Whereas those who be-come radicalized think that can affix exhaustive importance to every single detail of such a scenario because they they think that no one can go too far in their ded-ication to a perfect divine being credited with having created all things. Regarding such radicalization, those social engineers who developed such scenarios simply wanted ways to effectively pull that off without realizing the radicalization problem that their material would create for the world in the long run. Forasmuch as all authoritarian religions deceive the public in order to empower their clergies, as well as by extension their political leaders, since both were tied together when such systems originated in early Judaism. For even Cleopatra presented herself to the public as a god in order to exert power over the Egyptian populace--a very common method that some resorted to as if keeping the public in the dark was necessary for maintaining a sufficiently submissive population. Meanwhile I pity those who don't yet know that this is what authoritarian religions really are, which to learn that took me a total of 48 years of my life--most of that time deeply invested in such a program.
What can be so confusing for the public about all of that regarding Christianity is how Jesus (who was a real historical person, unlike Moses and Elijah for example) bought into all of that Judaistic social engineering sophistry (about its fictitious creation story along with his nation's former bogus triumphant emergence from slavery in Egypt, etc., etc.), who then tried to fulfill that system's messianic prophecies (prophecies that provided an excuse for that nation's oftentimes subjugation rather than it being the world's most dominant power). Thus Jesus did die on a cross like lamb as depicted in Isaiah 53 (written by an elite Jew who wanted to free that nation from the perfunctory nature and monotony of its outdated animal sacrifice system), but Jesus didn't rise from the dead like he planned; all while certain insider disciples moved his body from one tomb to another before reporting that he did rise from the dead, doing so in order to save face for their group. It's that mixture of real facts and prevarication that makes the Christin system almost impossible to extract from those who have been duped into essentially adopting the old Jewish social engineering program through what became one later extension of it.
How could anyone already know how to explain why atoms behave as they do between the years 1910 and 1920, when the neutron--something inextricably critical to the contents of atom nuclei--wasn't discovered until 1932? To show just how bad this can get, the subatomic particle now called a neutron, was named as such because of that faulty system (with its negative charge that does not exist) devised over a decade before the critical particle was discovered. So the particle was named neutron because it was decided, again based on that faulty system, that it was neutrally charged because they had no other way to explain why electrons are attracted to nuclei except by a positive-to-negative relationship experienced between protons and electrons. Therefore, others went on to elaborately build upon that faulty system and most everyone everywhere now assumes that it is perfectly correct. The logical reasoning skills of the general public have been turned off, at least relative to physics, by so many counterintuitive quantum system explanations. It's a joy just to know that everything actually makes good sense--a reward in and of itself.
Making Things as Realistic as Possible Instead of Just Easier to Use
However, this system will become far easier to use once all of the leading nuclei (with all accompanying shells) of each element have been configured since everything here is intuitive, which makes it completely understandable as well as philosophically satisfying; while a flood of counterintuitive nonsense should finally shrink and eventually go away.
Ever since religions were formed some have gotten away with philosophical murder, so to speak. For the last ten decades or so the physics system that emerged has done essentially the same thing with its negative charge, antimatter, warped space, particles going into and out of existence, massless waves (all while, for example, sound waves don't exist in the vacuum of space), gravity wells, gravitons, anions and cations (that in order to believe in ions you must ignore the meaning and implication of cloud chamber observations) and jelly-like nuclei that don't take on specific configurations for each element. It's been like the magicians of religion all over again: essentially the equivalent of alleged miracle workers (tricksters) who have done things only to impress others and make a buck anyway they can. Yet I don't consider all modern particle scientists as having been like that, thank goodness; such as Ernest Rutherford and James Chadwick.
Anything that lies to you--even if unknowingly by the majority of its typically deceived modern agents--is oppressing you, even if you think it is liberating you (called promoting a manic state of mind wherein you think it has made you "joyful") by supposedly giving you eternal life. Religious faith is nothing but pretension. The only thing that isn't pretentious about religious faith is its desire to control the public.
Trump is like having the worst Roman emperor of them all acting as the United States president.
I wouldn't want to do anything else whether it makes money in my lifetime or not.
Al Capone gave richly to charity and so has the Catholic Church. Even so, public image is everything.
Religion has provided the worst type of brainwashing possible when radical fundamentalist Islamic leaders guided Imams to convince their regional populations via continuous teaching that sacrificing one's life in battle against an unsurmountable enemy will result in a person's eternal bliss, which state of existence never has existed nor will it ever exist. This is the ultimate manipulation of the public for a religion's overly rapacious (what's essentially politically greedy) purposes--some-thing that has been made possible by the harebrain belief that there is life after death--which other cultures wouldn't have ever taken to that kind of extreme. But in this case we are talking about radical fundamentalist Islam which is the most politically zealous of all human groups, whose adherents will kill you for merely criticizing their religious brainwashing system. That was something that only certain prominent Christian moguls holding governmental positions did from the end of the 4th century through the early part of the 18th century. Whereas much more typically, Judaism--including Christianity which followed it--used life-after-death propositions to much more tastefully control the public via fiction; as Christianity was at least rooted in a certain number of facts while Judaism's stories before Solomon were not factually based at all with an exception concerning a man named Abraham whose story was embellished. David also existed but his story was highly embellished as well.
I don't trust a single word that any political ad says these days. They try to maximize the weakness of some general voter biases rather than do what's good for the country. Trump is the perfect example by him not doing what he promised in his campaign speeches. All that he wants to do is build things in iconic places so that people will think he was a great president because those become front and center thus not at all easy to ignore. He is a villain in most every sense of the word with his absolute narcissism.
The Bible, with reference to Adam and Eve, is meaningless. Yet some scientific programs today still somehow reference that as if those fictitious human ancestors retain some sort of needed import, which is both pitiful and obnoxious. Christianity (like the other two Abrahamic religions) doesn't view humans as one of many Earth-origin species; but rather as a special (despite being fictitious) divine-image creation with an everlasting soul that's subject to its all-important everlasting torture or eternal bliss postponed to the future--i.e. its here-and-now psychologically manipulative subtext. Scientists who cater to that system are derelict relative to their social positions that are meant to systematically uncover truth so that the public understands what it's really up against out there. You cannot have it both ways, which is what a majority of the current scientific community is still trying to do--called kowtowing, which is exactly what Abrahamic religions were originally designed to evoke.
People today need to come to terms with our species having used vast amounts of deception to control the public.
I was a bit surprised when a nature type program narrator said that firefly females "pass away" after laying their eggs. There is no species on Earth that just "passes away" since every single species' individuals literally die. Any species that can't adequately reproduce itself goes extinct.