MELCH: tHe OtHer SiDe !!!!

MELCH: the OTHER SiDE

I've had enough talks and compositions about my life and my wasted personality. This time I'm going to share to you my insight/opinion on some delicate issues and topics: RELIGION, particularly the VATICAN RELIGION.

I was brought up in a Christian family, in a Christian way of life, baptized, practiced and received the chrurch's so-called "holy" sacraments but my admonition to the Church that I grew up with cascaded and ended just recently because of sheer curiosity - which in turn lead to my resignation as a Catholic. I renounced by baptism and divorced myself from the Church. They say that curiosity kills the cat, I say curiosity kills the cat, and afterwards, the cat had found the answer.

Being unattached to any religion doesn't make me an atheist nor a devil's advocate - let's just say that I'm a freelance believer - I still believe that there is a supreme power/s, supreme entity/ies which are beyond human comprehension, understanding and knowledge - when we say beyond, it means it is unreachable and unattainable, making it impossible to measure or to judge.

I believe in a God but not the God that is being preached around the four corners of the Church, I also believe in Jesus Christ, I believe that he existed sometime but fanatics' intolerable exaggeration about him, that I no longer believe. I believe in a Jesus Christ that became a revolutionary, a political leader, who aimed to free his people from the chains and whips of the monstrous Roman Empire. I believe in a Jesus Christ who once belonged in an "Essene" sect, a believe in a Jesus Christ that once walked the face of the earth, a human with no supernatural powers and godly abilities. If you are to look at the new testament, try to look for the complete detail of the life and works of Jesus Christ, you will never find anything useful, because the New Testament only narrated the birth of Jesus Christ, then there is a large gap, then he re-enters the stories again during the last three years of his life. You might be asking, what was he doing on those times that he was not mentioned in the New Testament?

The 'holy" Vatican Church was once the most influential and powerful institution in the world, and I guess it still is. Who founded it?

Many Catholics are strict followers of the Church and many of them are also ignorant about the facts. Most of us know a little background about the Church but is it easy to accept that most of these knowledge were based from distorted and falsified facts? No!!!! Definitely, it is not easy to accept!!! - because what the majority today believe is perceived to be as the "absolute" truth - truth by majority? - if that is the case then the forerunners of these "truths" were successful in their mass propagandas or maybe mass-psychology?

It is logical, let us try to re-enact how these "truths" were manufactured. The time and the event: the world is less civilized, men are in chaos. A group of people need something to gain power and influence so that they would be able to rule. They have it: WHY NOT ESTABLISH A RELIGION???? So they did – due to fortunate incidents, thus new-world religion is much acceptable thus it was well-accepted, and alas! the promoters gained trust. They used this trust to climb the pillar of ultimate ruling, proclaiming: HEAVEN & HELL: Heaven: no pain, no suffering, perfect, utopia for the soul; Hell: full of suffering, pain and chaos for the soul. "You follow us, you go to heaven, you don't follow us, you go to hell!" So, what will you choose? Again, given the time and circumstance. Then it went on from generation to generation until now thus making their DOGMAS and BELIEFS as "absolute" truth.

Historically speaking, who really founded the "holy" Vatican Church? Did Christ really establish it? Are you aware that it was 300 years after Christ's death that the Holy Roman Catholic Church was formally established? If not, check your history. It is because of Constantine's political aspirations, he adopted the Christian religion - not only adopting it but he also made some alterations and fussions from other non-christian or pagan beliefs. For example, the most celebrated date of the year for Christians, DECEMBER 25TH. Did it ever cross your mind what is the real significance of this date to the Holy Roman Catholic Church? It is called Christmas - it is assumed that it is the exact date when Christ was born but in fact it is only Constantine's decision to make the 25th of December a holy day for it is a known pagan celebration in praise of a pagan Sun God - sol invictus

The primary question that should be answered is that, "who is Paul?" Who is this controversial shanannigan who was believed to be a Christian advocate that brought Christianity to Europe? According to history, the Christian religion was not really meant to be spread out as far as Rome, but Paul insisted, so he splitted from the original Christian form of belief which was the "Church of Jerusalem", founded by James, brother of Jesus.

It seems Ironic that the land which 300 years before, terrorized, devastated, massacred and razed Jerusalem, the Holy Land, suddenly becomes the seat of the Holy Catholic Church. Next is "How reliable is the New Testament?" The earliest known book in this compilation is proven to be written sixty years after Christ's death, after the genocide and Jerusalem was ransacked and burned down. Who were the authorities responsible for compiling the books of the New Testament? How can we be so sure that the New Testament is a mere piece of literature written by men whose sanity is on the brink of collapse and not factual events?

There are the APOCRYPHA, books that were supposed to be parts of the New Testament but were discredited by the authorities, one great example of an Apocrypha are the Dead Sea Scrolls found in Qumran, in early 1900's, the Book of Mary, etc. The Church forcibly concealed the messaged of these works and declraed them as fallible and untrue – messages such as Christ's belief of reincarnation and the like.

The question now is, "Who is fallible and who's not?" What to believe and what to discredit by us?"

How credible and reliable is the Holy Roman Catholic Church? The same institution that ordered the medieval inquisitions, the same institution that launched the crusades against "heretics", "witches" and "non-believers", the same institution that enslaved my own country for 333 years under its habit, forcing poor people to pay indulgences, the same institution that corrupted the minds of millions and millions of people around the world? They are preaching "thou shall not kill" but they were guilty of committing mass-murders. They are preaching "thou shall not steal" but then how come this institution is one of the richest among others?

Was there no resistance against this monstrosity? There was, but they were too feeble, too weak, and they have too small voices to be heard. Also, they are fond of declaring people who go against their flow of beliefs as "heretics", "charlatans", "anti-christ", "demonic" or even "Evil". But these are people who found mistakes and loopholes in their system, people who know the truth aside form their own "truths"

Is it easier to believe Christ's resurrection, Lazarus rising from the dead, a blind that saw, a cripple that walked than to believe that Magdalene had bore the child of Jesus, that Jesus' bloddline still exists up to this day, that Jesus indeed studied Tibetan Buddhism in his wandering years?

This is not a matter of faith - this is a matter of FACTS, facts that were concealed and hidden for a very long time which were eventually discovered and found.

This is not a battle of good and evil - this is a battle of the powerful and the powerless, a battle of authority and credibility, who is to believe and who is the real charlatan.

I'm writing these because I had enough, the Chruch's strings were no longer attached to my body, for I no longer want to be a blind, deaf, irrational puppet!

I believe that faith in a Supreme Entity is independent from a certain instituion, whose credibility is being questioned. We can be good men without going into a worship building regularly. We can be good samaritans without bowing our heads to those who claim reverence and pureness. In our small ways and means, we can be better persons.

And this does not end my quest, its just the beginning, I will continue to wander and look for the answers. My other side will always be open to any possiblities and change that I might encounter.

With this, I'm going to close this entry:

"THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS INSIDE YOU AND ALL AROUND YOU,

NOT IN BUILDINGS MADE OF STONES AND WOOD!!!!!"

- from the movie "STIGMATA"