by Paul Bovis

Created on: February 02, 2011

"When good men die their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them."                                  Euripides

Have you ever pondered the point that if there were no religion what the world and people’s attitudes would be like? Think about it for a few moments and then consider the following.

To know God we have to be taught it, we as children have to follow our parents into the unknown abyss every Sunday as well as that fellowship meeting or, annual committee meeting, Harvest Festival and all the rest of the hype that goes with religious sects and meetings.  This includes baptizing us into a religion that we probably do not want, admitted some followings have a dedication process where, when you’re old enough you can choose to stay or choose to do something else. However all religion is an indoctrination as is life through the medium we are raised.

Whatever it is you choose or find yourself doing, is a result of learning or being taught, not many people unfortunately step outside the box of given direction. The only distraction from the thought and practice you grow up in is that infernal devil Satan.  He gets preached to us more than any other doctrine throughout the world.  In fact he is in some cases the most revered thing in the Christian world, well you would think so by how much space he is given in sermons and articles.

It is this very reason that inspired me to write whilst viewing an article on the opposite of this theme and the person writing was so obsessed by the devil that he/she wrote an article in excess of three thousand words on how and why Satan torments. This so ups my anti in disbelief that a so called God fearing Christian can give so much creedence to Satan. I ask myself at times like this, “Who are people with this obsession giving the most thought to and respect if Satan is true?” What makes them so paranoid that their fear of satan overwhelms the love of God?

You know, it’s a funny thing how we can look back over history, with religions and mythology, even works by people such as Plato, Aristotle, and many others. Some works and texts are accepted without clarification and others need too much assurance.  The Bible for instance really does come

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