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DR JIDEOFO KENECHUKWU DANMBAEZUE, D.Sc. IN MODERN THEOSOPHY, HAS STUDIED RELIGION ACADEMICALLY FROM 1962 AS A JUNIOR SEMINARIAN AT ALL HALLOWS SEMINARY, ONITSHA .. THRO ....TO BIGARD MEMORIAL MAJOR SEMINARY AT ENUGU AFTER MY BIAFRAN UNDER-AGED COMMANDO ESCAPADES AS A BUSH COMMISSIONED MAJOR ... BEFORE I THREW IN MY INNOCENT BUT DIRTY TOWEL OF ROMAN CATHOLIC ECCLESIASTICAL CLERICAL AMBITION IN 1970,! THEN CONCENTRATED ON UNRAVELING THE ETIOLOGICAL GENESIS OF RELIGIOUS FANATICISM AS AN ACADEMIC TILL 2009,.. SINCE THEN TO DATE.... 11 th NOVEMBER 2016 ....................................................................
And behold what I found out;
And behold what I found out;
Danmbaezue Jideofo Kenechukwu25 November 2014 17:28
Religion, which is superstition sanctioned by the state, is actually an addiction to man-made doctrines and dogmas invented, patented and copyrighted by a few demagogues.
• It enslaves the mind more than psychoactive drugs,
• Benumbs human creativity and resourcefulness thereby
• Restricting the development of the human potential and capital.
It is the main cause of poverty of the mind and underdevelopment of third world countries as its side-effects are indolence, redundancy, laziness and dependence of finished products and services. In the final analysis, it is the predisposing factor to lack of initiative, debilitating ignorance, fetish belief-systems, abject poverty and perennial ill-health.
• It enslaves the mind more than psychoactive drugs,
• Benumbs human creativity and resourcefulness thereby
• Restricting the development of the human potential and capital.
It is the main cause of poverty of the mind and underdevelopment of third world countries as its side-effects are indolence, redundancy, laziness and dependence of finished products and services. In the final analysis, it is the predisposing factor to lack of initiative, debilitating ignorance, fetish belief-systems, abject poverty and perennial ill-health.
Perhaps its only advantage is that it makes the polity docile and amenable to the whims and caprices of their oppressive leaders. Often, it hoodwinks its adherents into believing that ‘The God’ or ‘the gods’ they worship speak to them through the voices of their egocentric clerics who therefore can conveniently exploit them to satisfy their demonic desires of sensual pleasure and inordinate ambitions of amassing wealth. Their wanton indulgence in gluttony, wine and women is seen in every action and definitely this is the foolproof evidence of their demonic genealogy.
To rescue humanity from the demonic stranglehold of idolatry that now predominates worldwide, you are invited to reason along with us and see that we provide an everlasting cure for sensual lust for food, wine, sex, wealth and power that are the trademarks of society heading for damnation! Are you going to sit on the fence and wait for another failed experiment in Messiahship that was riddled with myopic and ethnocentric bias? Who knows the Creator well enough to declare that he has ‘a chosen people’? Where is the evidence that Moses actually led the so-called people out of any oppressive regime? The history books and modern encyclopaedia did not record the enslavement of the Jewish race except as ‘they were believed as revealed truths’.
Danmbaezue Jideofo Kenechukwu25 November 2014 17:30
The Creator has hidden so much from our intellectual faculties that to date we are still unravelling those He is allowing humanity to glimpse at through divine dreams, intuitions, inspirations and revelations to devout souls! Do you want to have supernatural knowledge mediated by spiritual faculties of seeing, feeling, sensing and caring for others? Look inwards, for the kingdom of God is inside you, not outside as many preachers tell you. No one ever got eternal bliss by keeping the commandments of men. It is given to altruistic seekers of that Divine Guidance in the affairs of mankind, which many yearn for but do not know where, when and how to find it. Search for it in this book!
The creator gave humans some of his powers and knowledge for recreating the material universe for the mutual benefits of all his created beings but today many use his gifts to perpetrate evil. Either by design or demonic manipulation, the obverse is the case; the first datum that every living thing recognises is that someone put it here and caters for its welfare. Dogs respect and fight in defence of their owners. Every pet realises that it is loved and taken care of by someone who has value for its existence. It is human who pride themselves of being rational beings that do not recognise, respect or realise that all of us have a single owner. It is absurd! Some believe there is an Almighty Creator who provides for each creature on daily basis, some assert that he has turned his back on us due to our congenital wickedness and cruel ways, while others simply deny his existence!
This is my summation of the problem; “Religion was/is a superstitious search by humanity for its origin, existence, meaning and relevance before the scientific era. The search was led by acclaimed sages among the elders of a community who defined its theories and practices. It is later ratified and recommended for legislation and implementation by state apparatus by convincing stratagem or coercion by politico-religious leaders. Thereafter, it is fine tuned and administered by ordained priests and priestesses who hand it down along ancestral lineages from one generation of lukewarm adherents, fanatics and mystics to another. Gradually, strong personalities emerge claiming divine appointment and so pull strong followers who idolise them as role models with supernatural powers. This obsession confirms them as beacons of adulation and finally leads to full scale idolatry.
Danmbaezue Jideofo Kenechukwu25 November 2014 17:32
INTRODUCTION TO INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT
The Computer-Age Spiritual Fellowship for Citizens of Our Global Village
The Computer-Age Spiritual Fellowship for Citizens of Our Global Village
Many people are mere conformists. They are those personalities that are satisfied with ‘going through the motions’; doing what everyone else is doing to make a living and waiting for the final ‘call to glory’ as they brand death! Many of us are born and live an inconsequential life; bland, uneventful and without anything particular to be remembered for after our exit from this mundane world, a temporal habitation for the soul. There are some others, whose lives and contributions to the society made a difference! They changed the ‘status quo’ by either extending the frontiers of knowledge or developing their immediate communities. They improved the understanding of human nature and taught others the values of humanitarianism. These heroes and heroines touched the lives of many both inter-racially and internationally.
They added colour to the doldrums of routine existence on planet earth!
A few had tall dreams and went ahead to transform them into reality despite all odds. This group devised methods of changing the deplorable situations and the deprived circumstances of the lifestyle they met on becoming adults. Some adolescents dream of the courage to better their social status, but often take off on the wrong foot of seeking for titles, money, fame and crowning it all with indulging in romantic relationships.
A few had tall dreams and went ahead to transform them into reality despite all odds. This group devised methods of changing the deplorable situations and the deprived circumstances of the lifestyle they met on becoming adults. Some adolescents dream of the courage to better their social status, but often take off on the wrong foot of seeking for titles, money, fame and crowning it all with indulging in romantic relationships.
Others dared to pursue the unknown, to break new grounds and blaze trails for followers to tread on. Their zeal, inquisitiveness, passion, persistence, desire, motivations and prayers were fully rewarded if they paid the prize for success; optimism, dedication and the refusal to quit. Their philosophy of life was ‘When the task gets tough, the tough get it going!’, ‘Never say, never again!’ or ‘All that it takes to make the impossible possible is the power to remove the ‘im’ in front of the possible!’
They eventually became geniuses, inventors, explorers, leaders or discoverers! They evolved into the innovators and pioneers who helped to enlarge the frontiers of human civilisations and removed the age-old boundaries of the unknown. Joining this select group of animators or league of achievers is usually not by accident or by mere wishful thinking. Beyond desire and hard work is a divine factor that must be recognised, respected and appropriated in unveiling the unknown that the Divine Architect had hidden there for ages waiting for a brave soul to convert it from obscure dormancy to utilitarian vibrancy. This author, Dr Kenez wants to know where you belong in this universal continuum. Or, are you waiting for ‘manna from heaven’?
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RELIGIOUS FANATICISM NEEDS TO BE CLASSIFIED AS A DEBILITATING ILLNESS OF DEPERSONALISATION ORIGIN BY DSM III, BECAUSE IT IS WORSE THAN CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM OR GENETICALLY INHERITED SEXUAL PROMISCUITY, AS WELL AS ALL VERSIONS OF NYMPHOMANICAL ADDICTIONS
RELIGIOUS FANATICISM NEEDS TO BE CLASSIFIED AS A DEBILITATING ILLNESS OF DEPERSONALISATION ORIGIN BY DSM III, BECAUSE IT IS WORSE THAN CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM OR GENETICALLY INHERITED SEXUAL PROMISCUITY, AS WELL AS ALL VERSIONS OF NYMPHOMANICAL ADDICTIONS
PROFESSOR JIDEOFO KENECHUKWU DANMBAEZUE EMPHATICALLY SAYS THAT RELIGIOUS FANATICISM NEEDS TO BE CLASSIFIED AS A DEBILITATING ILLNESS AND TREATED BY UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATIONS; WHO. UNICEF , UNESCO etc etc AS A PREDISPOSING FACTOR IN LEADING CURRENT RELIGIOUS FANATICS BENT ON LEADING THE CIVILISED WORLD TO THE THIRD WORLD WAR AS NOSTRADAMUS, THE JEWISH-BORN FRENCH PHYSICIAN TURNED INTO 'SEAR' OR ACCURATE PROPHET PREDICTED CENTURIES AGO.
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; RELIGIOUS FANATICISM HAS NEVER BEEN INCLUDED IN ANY DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL AS AN ILLNESS
We are in the Internet age and in our scientific global village, we do not need armchair philosophers any more. They have done us enough damage.
FANATICISM IS A PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS AND SO IS MYSTICISM AS BOTH CONSTITUTE THE TWO SIDES OF A COIN NAMELY EXCESSIVE INDULGENCE IN RELIGION
I had the singular opportunity of critically studying religious excesses from 1980 – 1982 at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin, Nigeria as it was the topic I chose and researched on as my M.Sc. dissertation in Mental Health.
I was forced to develop a brand new paper-and-pencil psychological test as there was none in existence as at the material time the Guyana Mass Religious Suicide occurred in Jonestown. Just type Jonestown Mass Suicide into your favourite search engine in the Internet now and read about Rev. Jones and his congregation of more than 900 than drank poison.
Jonestown Mass Suicide
The dead bodies of members of the People’s Temple Commune lie before the “throne” of the cult’s leader, Jim Jones, in Jonestown, Guyana. Acting on Jones’s orders, more than 900 cult members committed suicide at the Jonestown commune in 1978 by consuming a cyanide-laced soft drink. The quotation on the wall is from American philosopher George Santayana.
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The dead bodies of members of the People’s Temple Commune lie before the “throne” of the cult’s leader, Jim Jones, in Jonestown, Guyana. Acting on Jones’s orders, more than 900 cult members committed suicide at the Jonestown commune in 1978 by consuming a cyanide-laced soft drink. The quotation on the wall is from American philosopher George Santayana.
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It shocked the world for three years, but did it stop people from becoming fanatics, NO, it did not.
And so, to date, Karl Marx; RELIGION IS THE OPIUM OF THE MASSES, remains a true dictum by a non-medical person that depicts how addictive religion can really be.
“Karl Marx, who believed history was driven by purely material considerations, took a dim view of religious faith, calling it “the opium of the masses” in his writings. The Soviet regime’s Marxist roots and its antipathy toward all social associations and belief systems not under its direct control made it openly opposed to religion from the outset. Shortly after 1917 it impounded the property of the Russian Orthodox Church, forbade religious instruction, instituted antireligious propaganda, and persecuted priests. Atheistic fervor, having abated in the 1920s, reached a crescendo after 1929, when thousands of churches were shut down and razed, only to ebb in the late 1930s and to yield during World War II to pragmatic concessions to believers. The crusade against religion was revived by Khrushchev, then toned down under Brezhnev and Gorbachev.
Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
And so, to date, Karl Marx; RELIGION IS THE OPIUM OF THE MASSES, remains a true dictum by a non-medical person that depicts how addictive religion can really be.
“Karl Marx, who believed history was driven by purely material considerations, took a dim view of religious faith, calling it “the opium of the masses” in his writings. The Soviet regime’s Marxist roots and its antipathy toward all social associations and belief systems not under its direct control made it openly opposed to religion from the outset. Shortly after 1917 it impounded the property of the Russian Orthodox Church, forbade religious instruction, instituted antireligious propaganda, and persecuted priests. Atheistic fervor, having abated in the 1920s, reached a crescendo after 1929, when thousands of churches were shut down and razed, only to ebb in the late 1930s and to yield during World War II to pragmatic concessions to believers. The crusade against religion was revived by Khrushchev, then toned down under Brezhnev and Gorbachev.
Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
Bertrand Russell, a renowned British philosopher who pioneered STRAIGHT & CROOKED THINKING argued that 2 plus 2 is 4; a fact in mathematics accepted by all and no one quarrels about it because it is FACT but if or when you force people to agree 2 plus 2 is 5, it ceases to be a FACT, it becomes faith and ends as a problem.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire—poison and antidote.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principle enemy of moral progress in the world.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
British philosopher and mathematician.
Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire—poison and antidote.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principle enemy of moral progress in the world.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
British philosopher and mathematician.
Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Dr Kenez traced its aetiological roots more psycho-philosophically when he stated in his M.Sc. dissertation of 1982; BELIEF ONLY BECOMES NECESSARY WHEN THERE ARE NO LOGICAL FACTS or EVIDENT PROOFS of a FABRICATED LIE or FALSE THEORY propounded by a demagogue, so it naturally transforms into A DOCTRINE or a DOGMA. That is the beginning of dissension and the remote genesis of any brand of FANATICISM or MYSTICISM.
In the mathematical analyses preceding a concise formula to develop the required PAPER-&-PENCIL TEST after twelve months of psychometric somersaults, real painful academic rigmaroles or the needed scientific jingoism; his proposed this simplified one; FANATICISM results when STRONG WILL pathologically combines with NARROW-MINDEDNESS …. And as a corollary of the flipside of the coin; MYSTICISM only results when a WEAK WILL pathologically combines with same NARROW-MINDEDNES.
In the mathematical analyses preceding a concise formula to develop the required PAPER-&-PENCIL TEST after twelve months of psychometric somersaults, real painful academic rigmaroles or the needed scientific jingoism; his proposed this simplified one; FANATICISM results when STRONG WILL pathologically combines with NARROW-MINDEDNESS …. And as a corollary of the flipside of the coin; MYSTICISM only results when a WEAK WILL pathologically combines with same NARROW-MINDEDNES.
rf = sw(nm) whereas rm = ww(nm)
Therefore “ f “ is a factor that could stand for any other human disposition that is addictive; Politics, Football, Religion or Music
Therefore “ f “ is a factor that could stand for any other human disposition that is addictive; Politics, Football, Religion or Music
This psychometric formula is copyrighted. Do not use it for any other purpose except academic and always acknowledge the originator; - Danmbaezue J. K. (1982) Fanaticism Scale Formula
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