The Two Faces of Priestcraft

The Two Faces of Priestcraft are religion and atheism. Religion (which is false) leads to atheism (which is also false). A person involved in religion eventually becomes tired and disappointed with it because he invested in superstition. When he sees that the results of his adherence to religious ritual are nil and void, he adopts atheism. Both faces of priestcraft are designed to create an ambivalent state where the victim sees his life as pointless and he becomes ethically malleable. In this state, it doesn’t matter to the victim if he does good or evil. The victim becomes a useful agent for the devil. Because of his ambivalence toward evil, he becomes the pawn of Satan. After a religious person commits evil acts (for the greater glory of God), the priests are quick to offer their false forgiveness. The priests set up religion and atheism as a false dichotomy…two sides of the same coin. They pretend there is no other option and that the only choice is between religious ritual superstition and total unbelief (atheism). What they don’t want you to discover is ethical goodness. They don’t want you to know that you can choose ethical goodness, because in a state where you are choosing ethical goodness, Satan has no power over you. You become useless to Satan and his earthly kingdom. You become useless to his religion and his system of usury and slavery. 

I have stated that a religious person is on his way to becoming an atheist, but this is not the only direction that a religious person can take. If he fights hard against atheism and holds to his false religious belief, then he can achieve a feeling of personal holiness. Sometimes this feeling can last throughout the victim’s lifetime. This feeling of personal holiness becomes a sort of limbo (hell), where the person is unable to take part in acts of ethical goodness or evil. He is taken out of the game. He believes that his restraint is goodness. He is in the hell of self-righteousness and who can tell if he will ever awake? “In Hell all is self-righteousness,” said William Blake.