If you're gonna jump.... jump! Don't talk about it!

This is what I like to see!

If you're going to believe stupid stuff about religion that other humans made up then at least do it whole hog and jump in with both feet!

Never mind this mamby-pamby shit like "Jesus died for our sins," or "Muhammad wants us to either convert or kill all the infidels!"

Don't get sidetracked by trying to attain "enlightenment" or the "Ten Perfections," or even "Nirvana" (that's Vanna White's sister.)

No my friends, if your going to fuck yourself up on superstition then by all means jump into the deep end.

Do you remember that saying from my book "The plain truth about God," where the guy says; "I was all fucked-up on drugs until I found Jesus, now I'm all fucked up on him!"

Well don't just stop there bunky, go one better!!!

You might remember these guys............. hundreds were gathering Monday to study the teachings of the controversial Rael sect, which believes extra-terrestrials created Earth.

The group is seeking sought to expand its base in Japan.

The sect, founded in France, is best known for saying it cloned a human being in 2002, although it has never produced any evidence to back up its claims.

About 600 followers, including new members, signed up to take part in a week-long Asia seminar of the Rael movement that opened Sunday at a hotel in Narita near Tokyo, said Hideaki Numakura, a spokesman for the group in Japan.

The group’s leader Rael, a Frenchman whose name is Claude Vorilhon, was due to attend but cancelled because of illness and is recovering in Switzerland, group members said.

Rael, a former auto journalist, started the movement in the 1970s when he said aliens told him that they created humanity. He preaches that human beings should be able to control their own genetic makeup.

In the session here, the sect is teaching followers to attain happiness through controlling the brain — an exercise purportedly similar to Buddhist monks’ meditation.

“Do not neglect gardening your neural connection, pulling out the bad weeds. If you do, you will become happy,” Michio Ito, the group’s Japanese leader, said as he led a three-minute session.

The group says it has 50,000 followers worldwide. Some 10,000 of them are in Asia, including 6,000 in Japan — which has more members than any other country, with France coming second.

Ito said the Japanese are more receptive to the Rael movement because of the openness to different religions in Japan, where most people mix Buddhist and Shinto beliefs.

“Japanese don’t really believe in a God; they tend to believe more in scientific facts and evidence so that’s why (the movement) is more accepted here than elsewhere where there is already a religion,” Ito said.

“Japanese are also more open to things like brain-training,” he said.

New members are asked to pay seven percent of their salary to the group.

(When you think about it, that's a deal since most of the mainstream religions want you to give 10%. Christ, that's a three percent discount and you might even get a ride in a flying saucer to boot!)

Besides Japan, the meditation classes included followers from other parts of Asia including South Korea, China, Thailand, Mongolia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka, group members said.

Some of the new followers said they learned about the Rael movement through the Internet including social network services like Mixi, a Japanese website similar to MySpace.

“I have always been fascinated by the way life is precisely designed. Only advanced intelligent beings could have done this,” said Rael member Yoshihisa Naruse, an assistant professor of anatomy at the Meiji University of Oriental Medicine.

Rael, meanwhile, was reported to be re-cooperating at his Villa in the Alps, and reading L. Ron Hubbard's (Scientology) last book, that was published just before he died.

It's called, "Let's just see how stupid they really are!"

Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God at www.God-101.com