This is an old (90’s) but exceptional documentary, explaining the origins of religion and what we call ‘god’. How old traditions, myths and astrology became the current monotheistic religions.
It’s about two hours long and split into 11 parts. You can either watch all the parts embedded here, or go to YouTube.
It surely deserves your time!

A fake tree, for a fake celebration, of a fake religion, in a fake nation, of a fake country, with a fake democracy.

Sorry to all those your Christmas spirit is ruined. Sorry we ruined the happiness, warmth and love, because we demand something better for our future.

Sorry to all the people who will take their money back from their insurance companies and have a chance to remake their filthy shops.

Sorry to the beautiful shops which sell shoes for three monthly salaries of a factory worker.

Sorry to all the rich ladies who have no place to buy their make-up for these holidays and will look like shit.

Sorry there are no banks to give your donations to poor people that you always remember at Christmas.

Zen and other religions, feminism, Feng-shui, fashion, astrology, and other similar “beliefs” are trendy nowadays. Lately all these seem to strangely fashionable. Perhaps because people don’t like the reality they live in and try to find somewhere to hide or some way of translating what happens to them.

All these trends, give us a specific kind of way of how we should act and what we should think. Feng-shui tells us where we should put our plants, zen what kind of stones we should wear, feminism if we should wear sexy skirts or not, fashion if we should wear black this season, our horoscope if we should ask for a raise today, religion if it is a sin to have sex on Monday, and so on and so forth.

But Zen, for example is a really old religion and has nothing to do with all the hocus-pocus they sell us today. It is a school of Buddhism, that has to do with meditation and a certain way of life, which has nothing to do with our “western” way of upbringing and living, so we can’t really understand it. It’s like trying to learn how to dance traditional Greek music, you may make it, but you will seem rather funny to the people who really know how to do it.

It took us approximately 2.0 millions of years, but we made it. Homo Erectus managed to evolve into Homo Imbecillus. And what a species we became.

Idiots are everywhere, you can see them at the super market, at the bank, at every tv show and especially realities, at the government. They can be rich or poor, illiterate or with major universities degrees, young or old, in every country, and they are the majority too. In fact idiots rule this world.

Some people are born stupid, because they inherit it from their parents, because of implications during pregnancy (mothers are not famous for their scientific knowledge), during birth (nor are obstetricians), because of diseased during childhood, or for other reasons. Some become stupid, because they get a certain education, or rather, lack of it, or simply because they grow up amongst idiots and they don’t need to use their brain.

But it is a dangerous disease, it spreads really fast, it can affect everyone and it can’t be cured. If there was a way to discover a medicine for it no minister of health would allow it’s distribution, because it would affect his position (people would understand the voted for an idiot), and no doctor would every research it, they think this is too worthless a task to bother themselves with, as they think they are surely too smart for it. Only some geneticists claim to be able to produce smarter people, but they seem to be even more stupid, until they prove they are smarter. Plus many other professionals are not particularly interested in curing the disease, because they would be out of business. Clerics, popes, tv “stars”, singers, actors and politicians only to name a few. The world economy would collapse.

Surely one of the best books I have ever read, maybe even the best. I read at this book all my thoughts plus some interesting facts which I didn’t know. And I don’t need to praise Richard Dawkins, he proves himself.

Still I can’t help but wonder, where is this world going to anyway? Instead of all of us understanding or trying to understand why we are here, we insist on hanging on the words of incompetent imbeciles who only want our money. And in order to take it they keep us blinded and feared. Religion started as a worship of things people could not understand. Now it is a way of controlling the masses.

The Bible is not really a proof of anything at all. Childish stories, by people afraid of their future, written ages ago, by uneducated people, who lived in a totally different environment. Still most of us choose not only to believe in it, but also to live our lives by it and affect the lives of others around us. As if we wouldn’t be moral without a book, which supposedly tell us what to do.