Relief House Humanism The Faith Of Humanism

RELIEF HOUSE HUMANISM THE FAITH OF HUMANISM

By definition a religion is” a specific and institutionalized set beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons in the sect. There are further definitions in regard to a divine creation and power, etc., etc. There is also one which ascribes to the power that created. the cosmos as the Governor of the Universe.

A religious belief should be between a man and his own representation of a God, a God of his own choosing. There should be no outside influences or interference’s. A religion should not preach, it should enlighten, it should supply enough food for the minds of it parishioners so they will arrive at a conclusion within themselves and thereby making them a better person, an ethereal.

All one has to know about religion is that ten thousand years of proper behavior have instilled into the genes of man, what is right and what is wrong. No religion or religious doctrine will teach man what he already knows.

If man is left to ethical conduct, he will choose what is best for him. As long as his choice came from within, from his devotions with self, then the selection will have been divinely inspired. “There is no God but God, and Man is God’s only temple.”

WELCOME TO RELIEF HOUSE HUMANISM

This is a book of faith. Not religion! This is a book to be used by people who wish to make living more pleasant, more endurable. It doesn’t promise a thing. At the same time, there are not a string of “DO NOT’S” used to hold it together and call it a belief. There is one basic law in the Relief House Humanism, there is no good people, there are no bad people, there are just people, people who all fit into a category of enjoying personal preferences. But as long as those preferences do not interfere with the life of another, or do harm in any way to any living human being, then they can live within the laws of the Relief House Humanism. Relief House Humanism has been created specifically for the disenfranchised in today’s society. It is for those who are no longer interested in a faith so full of a

vengeful creator, that bespeaks that life within that religion is no longer possible. When the socially unfit come to Relief House Humanism, they will find no compassion, no pity, no understanding. The reason is simple, they don’t need it these things. In Relief House Humanism all will be treated as equals in all things. Also, in this work, man is constantly referred to. This work was not and is not intended to be gender specific. It was created to encompass all of people-kind. There will be no men, no women in Relief House Humanism. There will only be members and people. So, if you like what you are about to read, and are interested in joining with me to create a faith we can all live with, without fear or retribution of the religious right, then let me know, for you see this book of faith is going to be written, amended and rewritten by the people who must live with it on a day to day basis. There is no need for a three thousand year old prophet to tell us that we can or can not do the thing we feel we must do.

G. Robert Gillespie D.D. 1978

RELIEF HOUSE HUMANISM BE IT KNOWN: by all who read this, the Relief House Humanism, is not a religion, and therefore does not need a church, a synagogue, a mosque, or a temple. It is not a religion in the normal sense, and yet, it has been created to transcend all of these concepts. It is meant to be a house of learning and exchange of ideas. It is a way of giving mankind something to think about, something that will allow the individual to know his place in the scheme of the whole. These idea’s and concepts are being expressed to those who are willing to listen and to read. In them one may see a blend of everything that has gone before. It might well be, for Relief House Humanism feels there is not a new idea in regards to human thought. There are new way to express old ideas, ways more fitting with modern thought and concepts. While the basics of most religions are well intentioned, and contain base truths, they have some major faults. Over the centuries it has been the inferior minds of the laity that produced invalid interpretations on the foundations laid by wise men and avatars in the past. The exponents, the priests, ministers, mullahs, imam, and teachers of religious concepts are not considered herein. Their belief’s have been

so ingrained into their own minds, they are not willing to listen to the possibility of a new concept or a possible modification of the old ideas. It is this inability of the teachers that has created the stagnation of human thought so prevalent in the world today. Some of the archaic ideas were based upon idealizations used to protect because of cultural or environmental encroachments. All of these antiquated exaggerations must be examined under the light of our present way of life. We must always be prepared to remove, delete, or otherwise get rid of out-moded and out-dated materials that tend to clutter our lives and our very existence. A very wise man named Nostradamus once commented: “The time will come when the world will no longer need the Church of Rome.” To paraphrase this, we should ask ourselves, "The time come when man will no longer need any church, or religious concepts." Since the dawn of mankind, and it doesn’t matter if that dawning was ten years, ten thousand years, or ten million, the human psyche has required: no it has demanded, a thought that would give, or tend to give, continuation of existence. It is this concept of continuation that has kept religion in our lives. So therefore: We will profess belief in almost anything so long as there is a heaven or paradise waiting at the end of this road we call life. Every generation of man seems to produce an individual with a Messianic Complex. The trouble those who suffer from such a condition usually attract the greedy, the selfish, the perverted. The people who are willing to take the Messiah’s good and subvert it to their own ends. A good idea, is a good idea, and it works only so long as the corruptible are restricted from using it. Man has reached the point in his mental evolutionary advancement where he no longer has a need for those with the Messianic Complex. He has the powers within himself to control his own destiny. This force is laying dormant in each of us. It needs only to be awaken for each human to experience total control over his or her own life. What man can conceive, man can create or do. Man conceives of a God and man creates a God—even if it is only in his mind. To the entity of God, he sacrifices everything. He will even sacrifice the right and values of his neighbor(s) because his ill conceived idea of God says he must do this thing. The thought never occurs to man, his idea of God might be flawed. Remembering that religion and the belief in the God concept is a pseudonym for

continuation of the life force: in the above scenario can we any longer live with or need the religious God theory. GOD IS GOD! There is no other, there can be no other, and man is to small and weak a creature to define what God is, how God appears to us, and what God’s relation to man is! In as much as man must have a divine power to believe in, it will be enough to say, GOD IS GOD.” The human mind isn’t capable of contemplating a view of the divine being. In his mind, man has been egotistical enough to create God in his own image, and yet in all of man's writing, God created man in his image. The exception is the Islamic religion which forbids the reproduction of anything that might resemble the Allah entity. The God men have created is so far beneath the true entity, power, what ever, that is in reality God, man can never and will never conceive the true nature of God. God is infinite, and man isn’t capable of contemplating the infinity. But if man has a God, then man has religion and with religion man will have the basis for continuation of the life force. Thus Written in 1978, and to be continued at a future date

G. Robert Gillespie D.D.