Some are surprised based on my teachings that I’m quite well versed in many religions. My teaching or what some call preaching is actually mostly rooted in religion and science. I in fact use science to prove the validity of religion. Which is counter to how many use it. In fact it’s my in-depth studies of religions which have helped me over the years to form the basis of how I see the world, life, and the universe at-large. Fact is none of my beliefs or things I know to be true as I call them fly in the face of any of the major religions. One of the things I learned in studying them is how similar they are. They simply use different vernacular to describe basically the same things. Religion in general offers one of life’s most precious commodities… It offers “perspective”. One of those religions with me being Italian and all is of course the Catholic religion. And the bible is our topic here.
This article’s title is paraphrased from a line from a Jethro Tull song called “Wind up”. The line is, “I’m not the kind you have to wind-up on Sunday“.
While the bible is our topic here, more-over this article is about those who choose to warp it to suit their own needs and shall we say short-comings.
Sadly the bible has often been twisted to have meanings it doesn’t have, either through corruption of power, or lack of comprehension on the reader’s part. Kings in olden days touted themselves as god’s representation on earth. King James commissioned his own bible translation, usually known as KJB or the English version ca 1611. Granted the translation was done by 47 English biblical scholars and not school children or by his own hand, but some of the original text is shall we say lost in translation as there were restrictions put upon the translation team that had to be adhered to. Henry the VIII as we all know began the process to form the church of England, all so he could divorce Catherine of Aragon and bang Anne Boleyn. Which in turn was apparently so he could later famously behead her. (ouch)
All the above said the bible has often been the cause of wars, controversy, and some heated arguments at the holiday dinner table at the very least. The bible is powerful, but power is corrupting. The bible is like money, it’s a neutral energy. It can be of great positive value. But if used or interpreted incorrectly or selfishly it can by contrast be a force for negative energy, and even evil.
There are a few people who I’ve been in communication with (about 6 actually) who quite obviously have been “triggered“ (remember that word) with my words and very actions on YouTube. They call me the devil. I rather like that actually. It makes me sound more dangerous than I really am. These people even admit my words have meaning to them, yet they fall back on the holy bible, arguing with me, defending their position as “devout“. That’s a dangerous word to throw around, “DEVOUT”!! They must think I’m a fool, or someone who hasn’t studied the bible, because their arguments are void of all logic. They tout scripture to me to seemingly explain their hypocrisy. When I in return explain to them what the passage they’ve quoted to me “actually” means, they still seem to almost in a magical car salesman sort of way “re-morph” that very same scripture back around to suit themselves. Like a water level resetting itself back to level. This is a common problem with the bible in particular. Much of it requires deep and intelligent analysis. So depending on your level of comprehension that analysis can go horribly wrong. The most famous of this “an eye for an eye”. Often interpreted as if someone steals from us, we can then steal from them. That’s not the case. The eye for the eye comes from God, not us. But it’s easy with the way it’s written to misinterpret this. It’s basically the bible’s way or one of the ways it talks about what most call “karma”.
This warping of the bible that many do is in many cases because some of the words used in the bible have different meanings today, or in some cases no clear definition in today’s English at all. This is true of a lot of old-English. We see it in Shakespeare as well with the use of the word “protest” in Hamlet with “The lady doth protest too much“. In today’s world we use it with the opposite more negative focused context of “oppose“, rather than its intended meaning in the positive of “avow“. So in today’s world the entire context of the phrase has been flipped.
Regardless of such things I’m annoyed when people assume I’m not a scholar of theology. I’ve studied many religions, and I include much from them in my teaching. I was raised Catholic. I’m Italian for god’s sake!! That said I’ve read and analyzed the bible many times. I found it fascinating as a child, and as an adult I still find it fascinating. I’m well versed in its teaching and sadly I’m also well versed through my observations in how it’s often warped by some people. People who pick and choose the scripture that suites how they live their lives while ignoring the rest which would adjust that a bit shall we say.
Often this morphs into holier than thou behavior however. If you think this isn’t you, well, we all do it to some extend, just like we all drive over the speed limit even though it’s the law not to. But I believe that not unlike the law we can’t just pick and choose what we follow and what we ignore. “Sorry officer I don’t believe in speed limits.” “Oh okay sir, you’re free to go then.” Yeah, not gonna happen!! Religion in and of itself IS LAW. It’s just god’s law not the government’s. Religion is something that can be used two basic ways. 1. you can use it to guide your life, simply as a basic foundation for your core set of morals. This is how most use it in fact, as many elements of the bible don’t transpose perfectly into our modern lives very well Or, 2. we can be devout, (there’s that word again… devout) and follow it word for word, but this requires that we do just that. That word “devout” is thrown around in my DMs on Twitter and in my now long ago changed email, and often in my face as well. And I’d like to remind the people who do this that “devout” means 100%, not 99, or 89, or even 99.9%. So, I have a few things to say about all this.
First off, what do I mean by triggered? What do I mean when I say these people writing in with warped bible perception have been “triggered”? Triggering occurs in the soul, not in the brain. When we read something or someone says something that as we say touches a nerve, touches on a truth about our reality that we’re hiding from ourselves we are “triggered”. It can keep us up at night for sure. Triggering is the soul which only knows “truth”. The anger from triggering comes from the “ego”, or the brain. Our brains are nothing more than a bundle of nerves and signals that perceive the 3D world around us. They absorb knowledge as we go through life, doing so in an ability to protect us and help use navigate the world, hopefully intelligently. The brain only knows logic. Love, music, art, emotion, creativity all come from the soul. Any artist will tell you this. Any true artist anyway.
Our brains begin learning from birth. Our brains take in data. The good and the bad things that happen to us. Its job is to protect us, so it hides a lot of the bad stuff on its backup server “the subconscious“. Most of us pack the subconscious thick with everything from happy moments to a traumatic memory of a handsy uncle who enjoyed giving us a bath a bit too much, to the pain of past bad relationships and the emotional abuse we suffered within them. If we let the brain run the show and don’t allow a healthy balance with our soul usually that pain ends up driving. Causing us to self-sabotage people and opportunities. Which is why a balance of soul and ego is important. Again, the brain’s job is to protect us, and it does that through denial, hiding of things, and creating distractions for us to focus on. Instead of actually “feeling” or dealing with anything most bury themselves in work or the mundane for example. And this is a HUGE mistake, one often regretted in old age. Nothing worse than a sad old person who never dealt with pains of their past properly. That’s not how I want to go out that’s for sure!!
So what of the bible? Why do some of the people I’ve spoken with that have been “triggered” hide behind it? In my experience it’s because they don’t understand it. I often respond to these people with a passage reference from the bible. That passage is James 1:22. I hope they looked it up, it’s one of the easiest passages to understand. It’s pretty straight forward and in fact it should be the tagline on the cover of the bible if you ask me. Paraphrased it simply states “if you’re going to speak the word of god, you must also LIVE the word of god.“. I think my paraphrase makes it pretty clear. Yet it’s a passage that I bet many have to look up! This seems odd to me as it should be the main thing you remember when you read the rest of the book. People seem to always remember the common bible passages like do unto others, and thou shall not kill, and judge not etc. etc. etc. But these same people who CLAIM to follow even these basic bible foundations and well known passages don’t even live by them! They judge people all the time, often prejudging without any factual data or truth to go by. Many of these same people have cheated on spouses, or have been cheated on. Many of them treat others poorly for seemingly no good reason other than they’re having a bad day or are in a “rough patch”. I and the rest of us can only hope and pray that they adhere at the very least to the “shall not kill” part of things.
But what of love? I sometimes wonder if these supposed devout bible followers have even read or more-over understand Corinthians 13. Look it up sometime and give it a read. From talking to some of these people I know they’re emotionally shut-down, in most cases on some level having been emotionally abused by others in some way. Others who themselves are narcissists which always goes hand in hand with control, self-focus, and one of the biggest sins of all “vanity”. Do you know what “vanity” means? I doubt it, most don’t actually. So I’ll tell you. It means, excessive pride in or admiration of one’s own appearance or achievements. i.e. a superficial materialistic entitled fuckwit narcissist who cares about others but only but only in relation to how THEY appear to those others or what those others can do for them. One of the best ways to learn about a person is to observe how they treat others who can do nothing for them. Remember that, because that’s how you spot a narcissist, or, “the devil”.
Let me clear up Corinthians 13 for you and paraphrase a wee bit by offering my take on “what love actually is“, and why it’s “EVERYTHING” and the “ONLY THING” that matters. True love is the most powerful force in the universe. It’s where we come from, and where we go back to when we die. If someone truly loves you, they care more about YOUR happiness than they do their own, and vise versa. A true love, actual love, is just love. It’s unconditional. It’s not about what a person has, money, status, power, or what they can do for you with such things. You just love them. And that love lives in and comes from the soul. Not from the fucking brain. The other stuff is fluff and not part of the equation at all. If you’re a devout follower of the bible you would never stay in an unhappy relationship because the person provides a level of wealth, status, or security. That’s contrary to what that book you hold so dear and quote with such passion represents. It’s an insult to the very religion you claim faith in.
Whether they work a pet store or they’re a big movie star. You love them for “who” they are, NOT “what” they are. A good indicator of LOVE is to ask yourself if the other person makes you want to be better, i.e. triggers you. The devil is the go-to for anyone who triggers anyone. But the devil will never trigger you. He wants to win your trust quickly.. Only an angel will trigger you. Ask yourself about a person, do they want you to grow and be happy, or stay right where you are to serve their needs. Real true love lifts us up, it doesn’t emotionally abuse us, tear us down, or make us feel less-than in ANY way. If your relationship doesn’t meet the criteria of this paragraph then you best stop quoting Corinthians to me, because you’ve never experienced real love and can’t possibly understand the true meaning of its words.
For you devout with the entitled fukwits who write into me to tell me I’m right in one breath and then blather out your warped interpretation of scripture in the next ask yourself this very “logical” question. If you were still you, brain, looks, spirituality, wisdom etc. but you weren’t successful, let’s say rather than a high level executive or a big star and you worked as a cashier somewhere, say a pet store your partner came in once a month for dog food. Would your current partner have married you? Would he or she fall “in love” with that person and invite he or she into their lives. My guess is NOT! My guess is you elevate their status in some way, add to the family jewels so to speak? You add a log of prestige onto the fire in some way. Trust me, and many of you have shared your stories with me, for several of you I’ve spoken with, your person wouldn’t give you the time of day if you were that cashier at that pet store. But the real question to ask yourself is would YOU have given them the time of day if they worked at that pet store? That’s how you find out who you are in relation to them. Because in the end you may just be two superficial peas in a pod. Using that red-flag phrase which makes me run from people the moment I hear it. That phrase is “Power-couple”. OH is that ever a fucking red-flag… Trust me, it is!! It’s the battle-call of the dead soul. The soul that’s got nothing left to it but a seething mass of materialism and selfishness. Doomed to end in divorce and a nasty court hearing.. lol
Always be honest with yourself. Ourselves are the number 1 people we lie to. The bible is clear as I’ll cover later that lying to one’s self is never viewed well in the eyes of God. God or the universe if you prefer always knows the real truth. And the truth is the scenario I’ve described here is not only counter to the teachings of the bible you hold so dear yet claim to be devout to….. It’s NOT REAL LOVE either!! Many people in our society today have been in dead or superficial relationships for so long they wouldn’t know real love if it walked up and planted one on you.
Since I HAVE read the bible from cover to cover nearly 100 times, and studied it in graphic detail, and many obviously have not, or have and are through some what can only be described as “gorilla math” warping its scripture to suit their needs, let me short-list what the bible does NOT say for them.
The bible doesn’t say be materialistic and shallow
The bible doesn’t say greed and power are why you marry
The bible doesn’t say your career is all that matters and will fulfill you
The bible doesn’t say you are above all others
The bible doesn’t say adultery is okay as long as this and this happens. NO!!!
The bible doesn’t say there’s no need to work because mommy will die & leave us money or always write us a check.
The bible doesn’t say to treat others like crap because someone else did it to you. In fact it says the opposite, which is to treat others as you’d like to be treated. Good to note that modern psychology takes this a step further by saying that we actually teach others how to treat us by our actions towards them. Which in-turn ties back to the bible’s statement of “do unto others as you’d have done to you.”
And lastly the bible doesn’t say wearing a false mask, lying to ourselves and others by putting a pretense out that everything is okay when in fact it is far from it is fine to do. It’s a sin to deceive others, in fact as you’ll read in a moment, the bible is clear that in doing so it is only we who are deceived. Which means by the way that God always knows the truth. And God is who will be judging you at the end of the road. You fool no one by fooling everyone.
I reference Galatians 6:3 for the paragraph above… “If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves.” I say this only because many who have approached me with bible passages and insults of calling me the devil seem to have no grasp as to those bible passage’s true meaning. They tout themselves as “devout”. Again, as the Galatians reference above clearly shows that’s something counter to the very thing they claim to be “devout” to, and furthermore it’s counter to the meaning of the word “devout” as well by the way. But my favorite from Galatians 6:3 (NLT) is actually something I live by. It’s in part my gauge for spotting “who” someone really is. And it states, “If you think you are too important to help someone, you are only fooling yourself.”
The above applies in all aspects of life including friendships and associations. For example, if you think you’re too good or posh to be friends with the plumber who comes to fix your pipes, even though he or she shares some interests with you, you blow them off because your friends or family might not like them because they’re “just” a plumber. If you’re a god fearing devout follower of the bible, you in fact you just proved you’re actually a hypocrite. Oh and by the way the Bible is pretty clear on what God thinks of “the Hypocrites”.
So for those who call me THE DEVIL, and come at me with Bible passages they seem to fail to even grasp. I’m going to close by leaving you with a little bible study homework. I’ll let the bible itself offer you both the message and the lesson through 2 Corinthians 10:12, & Titus 1:16. Go ahead, look them up! Get that Bible you keep in the desk drawer next to you out. Be sure and brush the dust off it. Turn to their respective pages and give them a read. But know this… The words you’ll be reading I feel express the source of my disappointment in you quite clearly.
You see God helps those who help themselves. This goes to reciprocation of energy which is a mainstay of the universe by the way. Those who will not see, will never find their way. Meaning I can only help you so much, at some point acknowledgment is required on your part. You must see, you must wake up, you must act, you must do the work, rather than make excuses and hide behind a book. A book which at least a select few of you who’ve written in to me seem to have little grasp of, and have morphed it to suit your needs. It’s not an “excuse machine”. It’s the good book. But it takes faith, and an open awakened soul to understand what it’s trying to tell you.
It’s also good to note here that The Bible or any religion can only be truly interpreted from the directional flow of the soul to the brain. We don’t study the bible with our brain. That’s were King James for example went wrong by directing and limiting his scholars. Our brain will warp the texts to suit its (ego) needs. The bible has no contradictions within it. In fact that lack of contradiction is how you cross-check and study it. If you don’t understand something you find something that says something similar which you can understand to help you understand and interpret that which you do not understand. For example, the eye for an eye example I gave earlier is one that is often misunderstood, and that misunderstanding creates a contradiction with if for nothing else “thou shall not kill”. My point is one of ego. It is “we” who create any and all of the contradictions in the bible by reading it and studying it with our brains first, instead of our soul first.
We study the bible with our soul, and send it to the brain. Because the words of religions can’t be understood by the brain unless they are first felt by the soul. Many get that directional flow incorrect. And that’s where the problems begin. The brain is just our ego. It’s a processor that contains no emotion. Emotion, hope, love, and faith reside only in the soul. It’s why science can’t find it. Oh it can find the chemicals these emotions force the brain to release, but it can’t read the soul. It’s 5D, it’s faith based. And faith is invisible, it comes from another dimension.
I end where I began with a little paraphrasing of James 1:22. By all means, be religious, hold your beliefs and faith dear. My god I’ll respect you for it til my dying day I promise you. Just make damn sure you understand the point of it all. And if you’re going to come at someone like me with your good book. You better make damn sure you’re living those beliefs, and you’re not approaching me or anyone with a self-righteous hot-air balloon of hypocrisy, arrogance, false masks, and a misplaced sense of superiority. Because I promise you, I’ve read the book. I also promise you we’re all equal. From the butcher, to the plumber, to the biggest movie star, and yeah even that guy or gal at the pet store register too. We’re ALL equal. We all end up in the same place at the end of the road. And at that end some of us will be judged kindly, and others no so much. Which will you be? I suppose that’s up to you. But if you’ve actually read the bible, and I don’t believe many of you who’ve called me the devil have, but for the sake of argument let’s assume you’ve read it and can feel it in your soul. Well then, you most certainly have at the very least figured out how negatively the hypocrites are looked upon.
—– cheers
