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Monestaries...MONE(y)...STAR...IES(word play). Medieval monestary orders(dominican, francisan, others)began as praying orders, devout/poverty ridden. As the generations went by they became more worldly and MONEY oriented. Ye cannot serve god and mammon(money)saith the lord, yes?

So this duality has always been with us : essenes and many other monastic orders in ALL religions. On the one hand : PRAY, on the other hand : PAY. This is why the rise of science in the past 300 years. Religion wasn't advancing the human physical condition one whit, look at all SCIENCE has done to improve everyone's lives. It's a sure bet that YOU wouldn't even be alive w/o medical SCIENCE.

As to the "stasis" of old time religion, a scientific pin to prick your balloon : Jesus was an in vitro implant into the host mother Mary by intelligent aliens(nordics probably). He was a missionary from a cosmic PETA group to save a few from the cosmic battleline that will sweep across the solar system/earth shortly. A "dances with wolves" advance scout to warn the local indians of what's coming.

Arthur Clarke's Third Law : a sufficiently advanced technoloy will seem like MAGIC to a less advanced technology. The feeding of the 5000 : know what a xerox machine is? If you see someone on their knees in front of a xerox machine, is it in prayerful AWE of 5000 copies being cranked out, or just replenishing the stack of paper and bottle of toner?

Thus, are you so self-centered/full of hubris to think that the EARTH was the first place in the UNIVERSE that the xerox machine was invented? Or the slice-by-slice CAT SCAN machine? Can it DAWN on you that an advanced version of the xerox machine was banging out 5000 fish and loaves of bread on the mount when jesus was giving his sermon? No, it was located on an orbiting spaceship and the UPS delivery service was almost instantaneous(see what competition between UPS and FEDEX eventually brings?).

Or the tansfiguration on the mount, again, the same whole body record(clone in the machine)as a record to return HIS body to in the resurrection. His corpse was slam frozen to 0 deg K with a su-co ring in the horizontal plane, defining the xy plane, the excess heat was radiated up/down(+z/-z)as a gamma ray burst, making the scorch-image on the shroud of turin.

But the atoms still had residual gyroscopic precession, thus small CONES of radiation = nose in focus, neck(further away) is fuzzier. Thus when in this su-mo state the death-damage is repaired/returned to the volumetric clone record. But it was TOTAL, he had no brain memory of the past 2 years. This is why he called Mary Magdelene "woman", he ddn't know who she was! It took awhile for his BRAIN memory to catch up to his SPIRITUAL memory.

This may come as a shock at first, but be not afraid. I could tell you MUCH more about Jesus' secrets, how this whole biblical story is about alien/advanced technology, from the distant past and far into the future. But know this, GOD loves us ANIMALS("apes with guns" as the aliens call us), he sent JESUS as his son to bootstrap us into the future.

There is obviously a cosmic chess game going on, played by RULES we only dimly percieve. To wit, WHY is satan let out on parole after 1000 years of Jesus' rule? The next few years should be "interesting times"...