Have you noticed that the largest religions with the biggest churches have the richest members because they all worship money; the root of all evil?
It's right in front of you. There's your God. With money, all things are possible.
Keeping people poor, by taking their wealth every week, on the day of Sun worship, is surely a good way to ensure they don't love their money too much.
What's the net worth of the Vatican again?
Religion was corrupt from the moment it demanded sacrifices from people…so starting in 3-4,000 BC, long before any bibles existed to spread the systematized brainwashing across the world.
Preaching "the word of God" is a scam, and always has been.
Candle use in worship is pagan, like most of the Cult of Christianity.
We need not shrink from admitting that candles, like incense and lustral water, were commonly employed in pagan worship and in the rites paid to the dead. But the Church from a very early period took them into her service, just as she adopted many other things indifferent in themselves, which seemed proper to enhance the splendour of religious ceremonial. We must not forget that most of these adjuncts to worship, like music, lights, perfumes, ablutions, floral decorations, canopies, fans, screens, bells, vestments, etc. were not identified with any idolatrous cult in particular; they were common to almost all cults.
https://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=2466
Because all modern christian cultists rely on the Catholic creation they call a Holy Bible, which was first assembled into the 66 book guide by JeRome of the Roman Catholic Church Empire aka the Church of Rome aka the Vatican.
Scripture = Propoganda
Just because "some of it is good" for brainwashing people to believe certain magical fairytales, doesn't make it useful for anyone other than those seeking to control the minds and behaviors of others, and using "God's word" as a crutch for otherwise weak arguments for substituting the power of the State over our own birthright authority.
>Jesus is the Living Word, the Way, the TRUTH, and the Life.
You're literally relying on the words from the Bible and claiming not to be relying on the Bible.
Circular reasoning.
Jesus Christ is a mythical creation, like Harry Potter. Your "New Testament" is fan fiction, written, curated, and preached with hellfire and brimstone to achieve a the goal of controlling humanity.
What part of the Catholic Church literally adopted the use of candles in their religious ceremonies from the Pagans do you not understand?
And "religion" began when tribesmen were instructed to leave their "sacrifices" on the BBQ Grill (altar) for the Levite fire tenders to have something to eat, since they were a "special class" who couldn't be distracted by working, because keeping the fires burning was a "Holy" task.
Sitting around the campfire, telling stories, led to the creation of the Gospels, preached by the preists. And now they need 10% to keep the fire "word of god" metaphorically burning, even though we have Billions of copies of the old stories and near Universal literacy.
They've kept us in a culture that ignores the common reading of the totalitarian literature, and relies on the "learned" interpretation of a Doctor of Divinity (a magician) to understand them "properly".
The Gospels that speak of Jesus literally did not exist until well after his supposed crucifiction, most of them created out of whole cloth 4-500 years after, by the Church of Rome.
It makes sense that they had to throw out the Gospel of Thomas, because of the whole muh Jesus killed his playmates and such. That wasn't very Christian of him, but he was apparently a bully, like his Father, and we couldn't have that Gospel conflicting with the other Gospels, because the curated belief system wouldn't work.
I'm just quoting the Vatican archives. You're argument us with them.
Lighting a candle for a dead person is literally directly from the Pagans.
You cultists are hilarious.
Luke was written anonymously, like Matthew, Mark, and John…
Funny that they are given inspired status, while having no idea who was supposedly inspired to write them.
We agree with "these words," so we we declare them "inspired".
"Those words" are heresy, die heretic.
I reject it all as historical Jewish fan-fiction that only exists to perpetuate a 6000 year old death cult that divides humans into the haves and the have-nots.
I think the Noah Flood story was simply a plagarized version of the much older Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh.
I simply don't care about either story, because neither are literally true and you can twist whatever metaphorical meaning you want out of anything.
I don't believe that some bloodlines are "blessed" above others by anything other than generational wealth, which the Satanists have a lock on.
I was inspired by the spirit of God to tell you that you are a faggot, and my research confirms that is infallibly true.
I said so, therefore it is so. Blame God.