The Disadvantage of Religion If the goal of God is that man, each one, will ultimately learn and come

to love Him above all, and his neighbor as himself, then, upon quick scrutiny, religion has failed.

All we have to do is a simple test: Do in our heart we really love God above all, so that, in every situation, when we are pressed to make choices, we chose Him or chose His will than the pull of our base desires?

Is He the most important and most beloved person in our heart or our wife, or women or in the case of the women, their men or their fashions or themselves?

It often follows that God is in reality a second,,, far second in our love as well as in our time and thought allotment.

In this case, religion has not succeeded to help us... as a matter of fact, it is content that it is able to control us and thus cause us to support its churches and priests/ministers.

When someone of us wanted to be independent and personally take charge of his first tithe and no longer give such tithe to the church but directly to the poor, the priests and ministers do not allow it, but tell the congregation that it is not the system, even threatened the infidel with ex-communication (the old term) or disfellowshipment (modern name).

So, the churches are not going to set free the people, but continue to control them, and under this control, actually have them become immature, and severely stunted in their Christian growth. If a Christian is still in need of his/her church, for example, to dispense or manage his/her tithe, then, to me, that is a gross evidence of undependability, immaturity, and the likes. The Christian is not still able to serve or support his fellowman without the skillful management of his spiritual mother, the church. He does not yet know how to help directly his fellowmen without the need of his mothers intervention. Or so that is the image being depicted.

In my understanding, religion or church, to be true, must act like a good and wise parent, to wit: guide and train the child to become fully independent. In this case, applying the principle to the church, the church must train each member to be able to stand on his own able to disburse his own tithes, without

anymore giving the tithes to the church but directly to the poor beneficiaries, not only to prevent abuse of priests and ministers of the tithes, but also to be a stand alone Christian, able to help others without depending on any church. That is to me the sign of maturity, which the churches are not allowing to happen. Instead, each church is acting as a DETENTION CENTER, where every member is detained and prevented from becoming free and independent.