The impact of religion on human behaviour
Long long ago, way back, a man and a woman were looking at the sky as their desert campfire burned to embers. They had already seen the seven sisters, as they called the constellation of Pleidaes and were marveling how clear they were that night. The night sky suddenly assumed a white brightness over the horizon and something whooshed past them and then it came back, hovered and landed. The man and woman waved and the three people on top of the strange craft waved back. In fact they got out walked over and in their shiny body suits, stood before the couple and said, “Do not be afraid we have come to help you”.
The people from the sky told the aborigines of Australia that they came from the stars and over a number of years revisited and told them creation stories and the right way to live their lives. My wife and I have asked an aboriginal elder, in the year 2000, where his people and the Creators of life came from and were told from the stars. Once happy that they had made some good changes to the lives of the various peoples living round the world at that time they disappeared. The same tale arises in South America where people living there were visited by a tall stranger in a robe with longish hair and blue eyes. He could move mountains at will and rivers as well. He did a lot of good in instructing them in better ways to live but if he met resistance that would block his works he zapped it quickly, such was his power. The people respected and feared him. He was a God.
These early people of earth had experienced something much greater than themselves and therefore set them up as Gods of their mythology. They made carvings and sculptured rocks in their images and worshiped them. Why do you think so many what we call primitive people today, have such out of this world carvings and art? This is the earliest form of worship. Jesus was one of these visitors and that is why He is worshiped today because of His extraordinary powers.
Before Jesus came to earth people had invented a God for just about everything, a God of the harvest, the sea and so on. You could pray and sacrifice to them if you wanted a good harvest or sea journey. Once Jesus came and told the people of His Father, God, the one and only God, Christianity was born. Even Constantine, the Roman Emperor, adopted it once he had seen the flaming cross in the sky during a battle. Since then unfortunately the people of Earth have cut Jesus up into many divisions and never bothered to fit the jigsaw back to its pure form. Once religious divisions were created, the quest to be the best and most powerful was born. Look at the Crusades and the battles over Jerusalem to lay claim to the Holy City at what cost, war and loss of life. So many members of these various churches have proclaimed they are the anointed. Why even a friend of mine today told me it was bad not to believe in reincarnation. The Roman Catholic Church made poor people pay for their so called sins with money they could ill afford and who is to judge sin anyway? Indulgences paid for the excesses of the Catholic Church.
There is no need to dwell on this, but if someone from one of these divisions wants to save your soul, tell them it’s in God’s hands so “butt out” with your human interpretations. The impact of religion on human behavior is this. You have a large portion of the world’s population being Roman Catholic and they are listening to the words of a senile old man called the Pope, who has never married or experienced a normal life. They don’t think beyond the box and if they do are excommunicated for challenging the rules. Their rules arise from religions and that makes them totally products of man and his quest for power. Why do the bishops and Popes dress in such finery with gold crosses the size of plates dripping from their necks? Jesus was humble and would view these people today much the same way he saw the Pharisees and Sadducees, who pushed for his death as he was a threat to their power.
In 1964, I flew over the remote outpost of Tari in the southern Highlands of New -Guinea. As we were coming in to land I noticed four distinct settlements and was told by the pilot that they were the four mission stations in the area. “Where does everyone go?” I asked. “Oh to the Catholics, mate, they have the biggest handouts there; these people here are not dumb They think their priests are great, they have the coolest motorbikes and stereo sets” was his answer. What a contrast and almost back to where we started with the Australian aborigines. When we landed the local people told me they had seen U.FO.’S and they worshiped these beings and the carvings in their worship houses certainly bore that out, as they were ‘out of this world’ carvings. Just for interest to verify such a statement that I have just made, type into Google. “Father William Gill. Papua -New Guinea sightings”. You will be truly amazed at what you read, I can assure you. The impact of religion on human behavior has been good in making people good if it does, but largely it has stifled creative, investigative, rational thinking, to promote the narrow base from which it was born and by that I mean the division of Jesus’s pure words telling of the One true God. The divisions or what we call religions have rarely seen eye to eye and the recent war on terror is Christian versus Muslim and many innocent people are being blown up as the two sides fight each other. To date that’s the latest impact of extreme religion on the planet. Jesus come back and settle the score in a peaceful way with your original words and power of a healing nature.
