Fundamental Blasphemy

By James Nathan Post

BURN THIS BOOK!

This is a book of prophetic declaration to debunk the idolatry and bigotry of the fundamental dogma and precepts of the religions based upon belief in the idol known as The God of Abraham, in the hope of freeing mankind from the spiritual blackmail of those religions to recognize God is much greater than the despot described in any of the books of Holy Scripture.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Nov 14, 2001
• ISBN: 9781469766157

James Nathan Post

James was born Aquarius 1943, raised in southern New Mexico, son of a rocket engineer and an artist. In high school a science-fair winner, and thespian, he became a winning swimmer, gymnast, and martial artist in college. After two years at remote New Mexico Tech studying geophysics, he entered Marine Corps jet pilot training, and eventually served as a helicopter gunship pilot with the 101st Airborne in Viet Nam, where he was highly decorated, including the Distinguished Flying Cross, but drummed out for smoking marijuana. [The novel SACRIFICES is about this time.] After going from the DMZ to Woodstock in 1969, James tuned in, turned on, dropped out, and moved to the ghost town of Jerome, Arizona to write. Three quick divorces. Sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, and religion. Psychedelics, Scientology, Wicca, Tao, and Jesus. Folk music composer, actor, singer, playwright, TV show host, occult publisher's editorial assistant, and founder of The Scribes Of Osiris. [The novel LOST ILLUSIONS is about this time.] In 1980 he returned to his home town Las Cruces, and worked various jobs raising daughter Nieve (politics and finance) and son Nathan (art and music). James now lives in Las Vegas, where he is writing another novel, MERLINSPAWN, about being a dope runner pilot, and sports book bet runner.

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Contents

FUNDAMENTAL BLASPHEMY

THANK YOU, JESUS, BUT NO,

THANK YOU.

WITNESS

IF YOU LOVE JESUS,

BURN THIS BOOK!

BIBLICAL NOTIONS THAT

ARE NOT TRUE:

IT ALL DEPENDS ON ADAM AND EVE

THE VIRGIN BIRTH OF JESUS

IDOLATROUS LIES

THE TRUTH ABOUT IDOLATRY

LOVE, SEX, AND DEATH

GOD

IF JESUS HAD COME THIS YEAR

LIMITING BELIEFS

THE GENDER OF GOD

EVOLUTION AND REINCARNATION

IS HALLOWEEN EVIL?

EVERYBODY LOVES DEAD PROPHETS

SIN: THE CATCH-ALL STATUTE

SCIENTIFIC CREATIONISM

MIRACLES

MOSES’ MYTH, OR DNA?

A CALL TO THE VULNERABLE

GOOD SHEEP

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Special thanks to Lee The Irreverent Reverend

FUNDAMENTAL BLASPHEMY

I expect to be accused by some of being anti-Christian (or even Antichrist) for having written this book. I shall proclaim my faith in time, but let me address the issue at this onset by declaring that I am not so guilty. The spirit of God is of all things most precious to me, and my coming to meet that spirit as an interactive experience in my life came through knowing and understanding the ministry of Jesus, God’s prophet and son. Surely if Jesus was the greatest of God’s prophets, I may well be the least, but I know beyond empirical evidence that the things Jesus is declared to have said about his own spiritual nature are true of the human estate. None of us lives but through the spirit of God, for there is no other life. We are all the sons and daughters of God. As flesh we are men and women, and as spirit we are Christ. We are not lost, but well known and much beloved by God whom in the most fundamental sense, we are. The physicists confirm that in the fullness of their time, even the stars and galaxies will all pass like foam on a dark sea. Yet through the spirit of God we shall still exist, waiting upon God’s pleasure for a new earth and a new heaven.

I am called as a prophet of God in the office of a scribe of common station to produce this act of iconoclasm. This work is not channeled, or otherwise divinely dictated. In the closet of my innermost heart, where I seek to know most clearly the will of God, I am given an insight and an assignment. The words are my own. As an independent non-denominational prophet, I do not claim to represent any institution or school of thought, nor do I offer as credentials any references from the recorded works of any of God’s other prophets, living or dead. I certainly do not claim to be infallible.

Neither personally nor in this ministry am I anti-Christ, nor even anti-Christian, but I am against idolatry, bigotry, and spiritual extortion, and I should not be disposed to excuse those sins just because they happen to be promulgated in the name of Christ, JHWH, or Allah. I am against the marketing of charms against horrors conceived by the charm makers, particularly where those horrors are touted as the righteous punishment of a justly wrathful God. It gives the just and loving God I know a bad reputation, which practice is called blasphemy. If Hell for Original Sin can be promoted as a genuine horror, then membership in Jesus can be sold as the charm. If one’s ministry is to be evaluated in dollars and souls, it’s an easy route to success. However, the faithful thus enfolded are led to expend their lives in the forms of religion at the cost of their potential for developing into more spiritually responsible souls. I am against the shepherd who having discovered the price of wool keeps his flock tight in the fold, denying to them the verdant free pastures of God’s kingdom.

I am also against the militant puritan who would make of himself not shepherd but warden by asserting that his ritual abstention from popular practices declared to be sins qualify him to impose his own restrictions upon others in the name of safeguarding their morality. It is here lies the greatest potential for abuse: the assumption of civil power in the name of God to make crimes of all that may be called sin, and to use the power and might of law enforcement to punish sinners.

It is largely the thrust of this work to resist exactly that influence. The unfortunate and illicit wedding of the political extreme right and the self-proclaimed Fundamentalist movement in America is another of history’s examples of a religious body attempting to gain worldly ascendancy by currying special favor with secular power. That is precisely what is meant by the Scriptural exhortation to such bodies to avoid fornicating with the Kings of the earth. It is my purpose to show that the seizure of civil power thus accomplished is motivated and justified by ideas, principles, and objectives inherent in Judeo-Christianity which are fundamental to the faith, but which are and were from their inception not only irrational and non-empirical, but also bigoted, idolatrous, and blasphemous.

Surely it is easy to see the spirit of the Christian faith is poorly served by those who build their ministries around profits instead of prophets, those who use marketing techniques in the name of evangelism, and those for whom the fold is more important than the sheep. But God has led me to understand the roots of the fundamentalist political movement are far deeper and more subtle than simple sheep-shearing greed, deeper even than the easily-understandable desire of the pious to use any possible means including law enforcement to promote Christian social standards. No, the root is traced to those very notions which are declared by Fundamentalists to be fundamental, found in the history concerning the person called Abraham, and the promises he said were made by God to him upon establishing his temple. That seminal congregation, and the dogma it promulgated, I refer to as The Abraham Cult.

I should expect that some might therefore accuse me of being anti-Semitic. I do not believe it is anti-Semitic to point out that much of the social turmoil in the world today is the result of several diverse groups each insisting that only themselves are the rightful inheritors of whatever it was God allegedly promised to the heirs of Abraham. I do not believe it is anti-Semitic to declare that Jews (including the grafted-on branch called Christians) have no special stature before God merely by virtue of their having myths and family records which insist their tribal deity promised heaven and earth to those who would obey his personal rep, the leader of the cult. A past rooted in religious myth, oral tradition, and symbol is something Jews share with every other culture on earth. I do not believe it is anti-Semitic to point out that the doctrine and dogma on which the structure of Judeo-Christianity is based are unsupportable by reason, evidence, or corroboration by other source—just like all the other religions in the world.

I might seem anti-Jewish if I object to the oppressive political practices Israel seems to feel justified in militarily imposing upon members of other racial or religious groups wishing to reside in the region. However, it is clear to me that both the Muslims and Christians with whom Israel’s Jews contend likewise base their self-proclaimed right to forcible control of the region upon their respective claims to the same inheritance of the promises of God to Abraham. I believe it neither circumstantial nor morally irrelevant that the attitude is founded in the fundamental belief that by virtue of Abrahamic racial and sacramental distinctions Jews, Muslims, or Christians hold a special and privileged place in God’s favor. To use that alleged divine favor as justification for treating God’s other children as inferiors is certainly bigotry—a form of mental ill hygiene God deplores whether practiced in the name of religion, racism, or nationalism, much less all three.

To have faith in the eternal spirit of God, to believe in the daily intervention of God in human personal life through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and to acknowledge the word of God in the mouths of God’s prophets—these are beautiful, fine, and holy things. To make of one’s faith a badge, a license to impose power upon those who will not or may not worship at one’s own temple, is an affront to the just God before whom all flesh and all souls are as one, and as such surely deserves to be called blasphemy.

* * * *

IF THE BEAUTY, WONDER, CHALLENGE, MYSTERY, ORDER, AND DIVERSITY OF THE WORLD MOVE YOU NEITHER TO THE EXHALTATION OF JOY NOR TO THE HUMILITY OF AWE, NOT EVEN GOD COULD CREATE A HEAVEN GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU.

THANK YOU, JESUS, BUT NO,

THANK YOU.

As a non-denominational prophet of God, I must declare myself not a Christian, though I came into Christ through the Spirit-filled ministry of a Christian prophet, and then was led by the Spirit through Christianity into the greater realm of God’s kingdom. Jesus was not a