Acharya's Religion 101 for Seekers

by D.M. Murdock

These articles and rants come from a series written by D.M. Murdock/Acharya S in the 1990s, during her early years online, when the wild worldwide web was a new and strange playground for free speech. A number of these essays represent responses to emails she received—some of them not so nice. As such, her replies at times may be deemed surly, to be sure, especially as concerns the essay, "Proof that God Doesn’t Exist," as one example. Acharya has nevertheless left it pretty much as is, just for your amusement, to serve as another, more "playful" aspect of her writing.

As concerns the controversial subtitles in the chapter "RELIGION IS MENTAL ILLNESS," these are summaries of quotes by other books and authors. For example, in the Old Testament the Israelites are depicted as slaughtering whole groups of people in the Levant, including the Canaanites and Midianites, beginning some 4,000 years ago. Fast-forwarding to the modern era, Acharya has included a quote from Ralph Schoenman's "Hidden History of Zionism." The quote about Islam comes straight from the mouth of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini, while commentary about Christianity is from James Haught's "Holy Horrors."

Table of Contents

Preface
An Atheist Here to Destroy?
RELIGION IS MENTAL ILLNESS GOD IS A PSYCHOPATH
Christianity—The Roots of Anti-Semitism
Judaism—4,000 Years of Massacring Neighbors
Slavery by the “Good People”
Islam—God is a Psycho
Religion is Mental Illness
Is Buddhism All It’s Cracked Up to Be?
“Buddha” is a Compilation of Characters
The Variants of Buddhism
Mysterious Tibet
Buddha’s Character
Proof That God Doesn’t Exist, Prayer Doesn’t Work And Religion Creates Psychosis
My God is Bigger and Better than Yours!
Does the Cosmos Know the Pope Exists?
Does Anything Matter?
All Pumped Up with Nowhere to Go
Bibliography
Endnotes

Genres: Religion

Kindle Edition

First published January 27, 2011

Reviews

[Thenicholsfam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Acharya S is awesome

If you have not read any of her works on the mythic Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, etc., this is a great place to start.

[Farah Irshad]

Humans are under the dominion of ideologies that are slowly but surely killing them. They need to release them and be free! No one is going to punish them for enjoying life.

[Alfred Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good primer for critical thinking

A nice series of essays detailing some reasons and thoughts on how the author thinks about religion in general and showing some obvious errors in what has been done in it's name. A good quick read.

[Alan Fuller · Rating 1 out of 5]

"The human ego has created an artificial separation that makes it as dense as the material world can get. We are all one; we are the Cosmic Being; yet, the human mind creates “other.”"
S, Acharya. Acharya's Religion 101 for Seekers (Kindle Locations 107-108). Stellar House Publishing. Kindle Edition.

This is the late Ms. Murdock's religious sounding assertion. Despite that she strongly criticizes all existing religions, and especially Christianity.

"Nobody is that important, not even those perceived as “godmen” or “godwomen.” No one is that big; nobody matters that much."
S, Acharya. Acharya's Religion 101 for Seekers (Kindle Locations 466-468). Stellar House Publishing. Kindle Edition.