The Editor, Sir:
We are all aware that religion has established a firm footing in the Jamaican public space, is embedded in the Jamaican psyche, and is the source of the lack of critical thinking and the inability to analyse situations and formulate viable solutions to the nation's problems.
 
And for too long the media, unopposed, have aided and abetted the cause of religion by shoving primitive ideas and concepts as if they are incontrovertible facts down the throats of the ignorant, the illiterate and the gullible, controlling the populace and keeping them cowering in a state of fear of the wrath from an angry God.
 
Challenge needed
 
The dogmas of local church denominations need to be challenged, as the Church should hold no position as a moral authority in the land. We have only to look at recent incidents of deviant and repugnant behaviour by church officials to acknowledge that many of them have no intention of themselves abiding by the rules they wish to impose by influencing legislation on the rest of the society.
 
Their preaching has continued to stultify minds from childhood with a poison that has rendered the nation paralysed. They will need to have their fangs removed, and the legitimacy and authenticity of their ridiculous claims proven fallacious at every turn.
 
Formidable resistance
 
An organised effort could provide formidable resistance to the continued efforts by the Church to enslave the minds of the majority of the populace. Those among the population who are at a crossroad regarding their religious beliefs need to be reassured that they are not alone, that they will be provided support as far as morale is concerned, and that there is absolutely nothing wrong in questioning the fallacies they have been force-fed since childhood.
 
Our group, The Emancipation From Mental Slavery (EFMS), intends to initiate a massive pushback to debunk the myths of religion in our midst. We will oppose any intention of the Church or other religious organisations to hijack the seat of authority in the land and impose any further their destructive judgements and pronouncements upon an ignorant and unsuspecting public.
 
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Quote from POPARF on Nov 7^th, 2009, 11:15am:

 
 
funny you should say that.....i was about to get a life time membership with them...............religion my friend is the opiate of the masses.....................it keeps them in line and keeps them calm...i do not need religion to tell mi not to kill, steal, f**k mi best friend wife or beat batttyman to death..... ...those things are a natural way for man to achieve balance and maintain order.......its not like christianity is the only religion with laws..........but christianity is the bane ofminority ppl world wide..........it was used to enslave minds and bodies and now its still used to enslave minds.........go look inna di house of anybody inna JA born before 1950 and yuh see a white jesus...he used to have black hair and brown eyes but nowadays he is blond with blue eyes....... ......think about it.....buddha looks chinese, vishnu and dal look indian ...i have not to my knowledge seen any graven images or otherwise or allah.......point is...most religions the god or whoever tends to look like the ppl who worship..only christianity asks ppl worship a savior whose depiction looks nothing like them...........if that is not mental slavery i do not know what it is............

HMMMMMMMMM, JAMAICANS ARE DELUSIONAL......IF THEY WERE AS RELIGIOUS AS THEY CLAIM TO BE ,THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN LESS TRUST IN POLITICIANS AND MORE IN THE TRUTH.

religion has always been seen by the masses as true, by the wise as foolish and by the powerful as useful.

not as much as the mommies and grandmothers

Do we need to prove something false in order to find that which is true?
 
There is an expression of humanity that exists that no life could possibly deny....... There is no fight, only the struggle to see the beauty within.