Let's Pile Up some Stones

Yesterday the old Kadizzle made a trip into Guatemala to see Tecal . Tecal is an amazing place. Kadizzle never had an idea of the scope and size of what ancient civilizations did in Central American.

You have started from hunter gatherers.  Now you have enough surplus labor because you figured out how to grow crops. So the question is what does everyone do.  The traditional answer is pile up stones, and start some wars.  Given the resources to build houses, bridges, irrigation, and so many things that could make life pleasant people almost always decided to just pile up stones.  Egypt had the great idea.  How high can we pile stones. Every society wanted to pile up stones.  Like kids with legos ancient people made great piles of crap with stone.

Did we learn anything? No, our churches today are our piles of stones.  Millions and millions have been spent on churches that could have been spent on health care, education, roads, bridges, schools, but nooo, God wants us to pile up stones.  Look at the insane money that has gone into the same mistake that people made for thousands of years, piling up stones to please this god or that.   Wandering among the incredible piles of stones in Tecal Kadizzle knew there were people all around him involved in sects, cults, religions, or whatever, that were still bilking people with the old pile up the stones routine.

Recently I met a couple who wanted to retire. They did not have the resources to retire.  Why not?  Well they donated a consistent 10% of their income so their church could make some very magnificent piles of stones.  Nothing makes God happier than a well shaped pile of stones, it is the only way to get to heaven. So make a Cathedral, a Temple, or and great edifice and God will love it.  Here Kadizzle sits in Belize the people are broke living in shacks.  How did this happen. The good old Catholic church came in and once again convinced them to pile up stones.  Of course the other gangs of conniving religious thieves wanted part of the action so now Mormons, Baptist, Seventh Day Adventist, and crooks of every denominations are down her robbing these people blind with the same old game invented a thousand years ago.