Make It Make Sense

By Michael Walker

Make it make sense is a detailed look at the four major religions. This book gives accurate details on the history, teachings, and beliefs of each. It also goes into greater details on who wrote the guides, and why some of them were written. It examines what each religious concept of the afterlife is, and what to expect upon death. It speaks on things that make absolutely no sense when it comes to our beliefs. It also speaks on the contradictions of each guide, problems with prayer, and creation stories that don’t add up. This book is designed to increase your understanding of why you believe what you believe, and also attempts to open your mind so that you may see the major flaws, and positive things in what you believe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Oct 19, 2020
• ISBN: 9781663210746

Michael Walker

Michael Walker is the bestselling author of Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll’s Legendary Neighborhood and What You Want Is in the Limo: On the Road with Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and the Who in 1973, the Year the Sixties Died and the Modern Rock Star Was Born. He has written about popular culture for the New York Times and is a contributing editor at the Hollywood Reporter. He lives in Los Angeles.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1  The Books (Guides)

Chapter 2  Flaws

Chapter 3  The Un-Power Of Prayer

Chapter 4  Creation

Chapter 5  The Forum

Chapter 6  Death/The Afterlife

Chapter 7  What You Believe

Chapter 8  All For Nothing

Conclusion

References

INTRODUCTION

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The year is 2018, it’s a beautiful sunny day on Sunday, May 6th and the feel of spring is in full swing. There is no rain this particular day, no clouds, and the temperature is 70° The wind is blowing lightly to just giving a slight comfortable breeze. There are no major pollen alerts, and breathing the air is as crisp as taking a hit of oxygen after a long workout.

Since this is a Sunday, everyone is headed to their favorite place of worship: The Muslim’s are heading to the Temple. The Catholic’s are headed to Mass. The Jew’s are headed to the Synagogue. The Buddhist are headed to their Buddhist Temple. The Hindus are heading to the Mandir (Hindu Temple). The Christians are headed to Church, and every other worshiper is headed to his or her place of worship to connect with their chosen deity.

Everyone, and I do mean everyone, all 7.53 billion people on the planet, are in sync with one another. There is absolutely no envy, no murders, no rapes, no robberies, no assaults, no bullying on any kind, no cheating, no lying, or any other types of crime or misbehavior. In fact, people this particular day aren’t even thinking of anything immoral or illegal, according to all religious principles, and it has been like this since the beginning of time.

To be perfectly honest with you, very few people commit any of these acts at all. Want to know the reason why? Because God, Jehovah, Allah, Ra, Sheba, El or whatever you choose to call or refer to as your deity, is sitting right next to the Sun watching your every move by day, and sitting next to the moon, and even some stars to watch your every move at night.

He is clothed in a white robe as most descriptions give, and he has a crown on his head made with gold, diamonds and other precious gems and metals. He has a few hundred 15 feet angels next to him on each side. He looks like all of us combined, no color, no gender, no creed, and he is no respecter of what we chose to refer to him as. He just wants us to be good to each other, and love one another as we do ourselves.

Now here’s the kicker, on this day, we can actually see him. You can just look up in the sky, follow me here people. In fact, we have always seen and heard him throughout the beginning of time. Now, being that this has been the case all along, wouldn’t it be a lot easier to be in sync, and abide by all the rules, at least for about 95% of the global population?

Wouldn’t it be a lot easier to believe what your parents or ancestors conditioned you to believe.

Wouldn’t it be a lot easier to understand prayer and how to pray simply because you can just ask?

Wouldn’t it be a lot easier to know where you are headed after death and how to get to the right place?

Wouldn’t it be easier to know where your loved ones are and not have to mourn at funerals because the deity is at your beck and call 24/7?

Wouldn’t it be a lot easier to understand the meaning of life and why we are here?

Wouldn’t it be a lot easier to know what pleases the deity because you can see the expression on his face whenever you do something?

Wouldn’t it be a lot easier to not second guess every decision you ever make because 95% of them would, or should be right?

Wouldn’t it be easier to get a yes or no answer from him whenever you want something?

Wouldn’t be a lot easier to understand how we should live our lives?

Well, if you answered yes to any of the following questions, then you agree with me. So why does the deity (if in fact there is one) make it so difficult? If the deity wants us to be a certain way, why all the division between the spiritual sects. Why does everyone think that what they believe is right and won’t even bother to hear someone else’s beliefs, and why they believe it? Why does every spiritual sect or form of worship believe that their spiritual book is correct and the others are wrong? Let’s face it, they all have major flaws, even the one that has the most followers which is something that I detailed in my last book.

Throughout the following chapters, I will attempt to shed some light on why the creator (if there is one), or creators make things so difficult. I will show you why some, or all, of the things we believe don’t make much sense. I will attempt to open your minds and see if you can make sense of it all.

I will go through all of the main principles of religion including the religious books, their creation stories, prayer and worship.

I will provide examples and shed some light on near-death experiences and explore if there really is an afterlife and what can we except.

Together we will review some of the major religions and determine if any of it is true on any level of any of them.

While some of what you read here may be unbelievable to you based on your own faith, I ask that you please keep