I could be considered an eccentric Nietzschean - a Nietzschean at the age of 15!. Nietzsche profoundly affected me and helped me through some tough times. I think up to now I have lived a fairly tragic life with odd occassions of ecstatic revelry, drunkeness and sexual shananigans. I haven't really had a joyfull time all the time - I knew that if I was ever to form character I would have to do a little bit of suffering - but in the end I am optimistic that whatever I have been through (or will go through), something positive will come of it -what does not kill me makes me stronger, and all that. I am anti-christian, but I am not antichrist. I am willing to accept 'good news', but I am not willing to accept it on the basis that an innocent person had to be punished on behalf of the 'guilty'. I am less likely to accept 'good news' from those who believe if I don't accept it I will go to hell or be serverly punished.

I believe that there is a component of our being (or conciousness) that is spiritual. I believe that religion is a corruption of this spirituality, with Christianity and Islam being the final pieces of the decomposition and the divine putrifaction of 'God'. What is now needed is the full possession of ourselves; to redeem the world; to embrace everything in the whole, and cleanse it of the corruption that has infected so much of our past.

The three main religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam see humanity as
'sinfull' - They seem to go out of their way
to show how lowly mankind is - how we should
prostrate ourselves to a narcisistic deity.
Nietszche was correct, when he stated that
mankind has surrendered all its good traits
(justice, mercy, love etc) to a 'God' who according to them is the only source for these virtues.
He is also right when he states we should
claim them back - the 'goodness' in humans
belongs to HUMANITY - not 'God'!!

Christianity might have offered the poor, the oppressed and the downtrodden a 'sheet and anchor', but the problem has been that the Christian church itself wanted poverty and oppression as its virtues and for the whole world to be like a madhouse of Christians and priests running the whole show. This has been a curse on humanity for 2000 years or more. Now all that is left of this "great" religion is the morality. One minute Jerry Springer condemned for blasphemy, condoms and HIV treatment denied and the next minute the Church splits over homosexuality. The God in this religion is missing; it has corrupted so much all that is left is a residual morality. Its message of 'good news' sounds like the screams of nightmares. We no longer see any joy in it; instead we long for new horizons; new dreams. This is the changing zeitgeist.

If you think Christianity is authentic take a moment to consider the Egyptian Carpocratean Gnostics who revered a book called the "The Gospel of Truth" which was based upon the sayings of Taht-Mattiu. Consider the Traditions of Mathias spoken by Clementine of Alexandria. The Jesus of the gospels is the Jesus of the Egyptian Gnostics, whose mythos were written by Taht-Mattiu (Matthew) and Taht-Ani (John).

We must destroy any barriers including religion and democracy.---All of the factors, which motivate people for change, low income, poor education, unemployment, concern for disability, birth weight, fuel poverty, overcrowding, mortgage arrears, homelessness and other factors not mentioned above such as medical treatment and care for the elderly are increasing. They show the reality of life today in Britain (and in the world). They show the failure of the capitalist system to provide a humane existence for all members of society. Under this system, the motive of maximising capitalist profit and individual enrichment is in command, not the well-being of society and its members.

(sources: The New Policy Institute 2007 survey; ONS)