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Bob Graham was a leading figure in the religious revival movement that had begun at the end of the twentieth century. Bob Graham understood the approaching technological revolution and decided to marry religion with technology. He figured he could cash in big time by being the first to unite technology with mysticism.
Bob Graham told Ben Warren that he wanted to hold a religious revival assembly in Washington DC and asked Ben’s permission to hold it on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ben immediately agreed and said he would have all the details arranged. Bob Graham told Ben that he planned to generate $75,000,000 from the event, and that he would quietly give Ben $500,000 for his assistance. Ben Warren was delighted.
Whereas Ben Warren had fallen in love with politics early on, Bob Graham had fallen in love with religion as a young man. Bob Graham always loved mysticism—especially religious mysticism. He would read the Holy Bible every night as a teenager and then go door-to-door preaching the Gospel to anyone who would listen. At the end of his front-door sermons, he would ask homeowners for a donation to help build a Temple of God. Many people listened to Bob Graham’s front-door sermons, but few people donated money.
Bob improved his speaking skills and increased his knowledge of religion. He continued going door-to-door throughout his twenties to spread the word of God. But the few people who donated money did not provide enough resources for his survival. Then Bob Graham had a breakthrough insight. Instead of physically going to people’s homes, he would use advanced technology to reach people. He started a 24-hour religious channel that would eventually broadcast by satellite. Later, he created a web site where people could submit payment in exchange for live prayer.
By the time Bob Graham was in his thirties, he was earning ten million dollars a year from his religious services. People around the world sent Bob Graham money in hopes of cleansing their soul of Original Sin and innate wickedness—to ensure they would attain eternal happiness in the next life.
Plying mysticism and the handy God-concept to drain productive people was easy for Bob. At age 14 he became a Christian. From that point on, he passionately, persuasively spread the word of God to anyone who would listen. He could memorize entire passages from the Bible and repeat them verbatim. People were amazed. But something separated Bob Graham apart from other Bible-thumpers.
One day, Bob was engaging in prayer between himself and God. He was still in early adulthood at the time, and he was alone in his room. His eyes were closed and he was kneeling down on the floor in a prayer position. He asked God for the answer to his financial problems and how he could conduct his door-to-door ministry more profitably. God used to speak to him when he was in his teens. But in his early twenties, he had a harder time communicating with the Lord above.
During his ritualistic prayer session, Bob Graham persisted in asking God for answers to his problems. In an uncharacteristic event, God did not reply. This left Bob confused, almost scared. For, Bob had come to rely on the word of God. Suddenly, Bob heard the following message:
There’s no God; you’ve been talking to yourself all along
Bob was stunned. He frantically shook his head from side to side. Then he opened his eyes. He stood up and looked around. Everything in his room was the same, but his revelation had caused a profound shift in him. The Holy Scriptures, crosses, and portraits of Jesus were evident all over Bob’s room. Yet he experienced a colossal change inside himself.
He fell on his bed and began to wonder: could the God concept be a gigantic hoax? Is it possible that there is no such thing as God? What about Jesus? Could Jesus himself have been an ordinary person who fell for the God hoax like everyone else? Bob began to feel a headache coming on. He took some aspirin and fell asleep.
When he woke up, nothing had changed. He was scheduled to give a sermon at his local church in a few hours, so he began preparing his talk. But he did not know what to say. Would he come out and expose his revelation to all the parishioners? Or would he continue preaching like nothing ever happened.
Bob went to his church that evening and gave the sermon. He acted like nothing happened. However, all the while he gave his lecture about the sins of man and the greatness of God, he observed himself and his audience. He was amazed that he no longer believed what he was saying, yet the audience seemed to buy everything he said. To top it off, people gave him a standing ovation at the end of the sermon. Some people even came up to him after it was over and told Bob that was the best sermon they had ever heard.
Bob Graham went home that evening to think about everything that happened. He could not believe that most people worldwide are duped by the twin hoaxes of God and religion. At first he thought he would be immoral for preaching the bogus God concept, since he saw through the hoax of God and clearly understood there was no such thing. But thinking about the fact that so many people are caught up in the big lies of God and religion, Bob realized he could rise to tremendous power and wealth by propagating them.
What finally tilted Bob’s decision in favor of continuing to preach the God/religion hoax was that he would attain tremendous power and wealth without having to exert much effort. All he had to do was extract lines from the Bible and ‘justify’ them through arbitrary utterances. If anyone ever challenged Bob about the validity of God or religion, he would inject popular biblical phrases into the argument hoping to disarm challengers. And when he encountered highly intelligent challengers, he threatened them with eternal damnation.
From that point in his life, Bob Graham had made a crucial decision and stuck by it. He decided that he would continue promulgating the God paradigm to the world, even though he secretly knew it was false. Since so many people around the world still bought into this good-sounding illusion, Bob saw an opportunity to cash in big time on everyone’s mystical defaults. He nurtured everyone’s mysticism and ignorance while denouncing the Tree of Knowledge. In reality, Bob Graham grew rich by keeping his followers mired in mysticism and ignorance.
By the time Bob reached his fifties, he owned:
Bob Graham secretly understood that the key to his success was his awareness of the God/religion fraud. He knew that if he was hampered by mysticism—the same mysticism he dispensed to his followers—he would be stunted in his thinking. Thus, his competitors would have outcompeted him on their way to tremendous false power. His rivals would have (1) seized his opportunities, (2) stolen his followers, and (3) captured his prosperity. Only by remaining sharply aware of reality was he able to outmaneuver his peers and rivals.
This competitive advantage—being free of mysticism—enabled Bob to understand what was happening in the world, identify new opportunities, and take action on those opportunities. The result was that he had drained mystic-plagued citizens worldwide for decades—boosting his personal wealth to one billion dollars. Bob Graham was a self-made billionaire by the time he was fifty. Amazingly, even though cemeteries filled with dead followers enveloped his churches, almost no one suspected Bob Graham of fraudulent or immoral actions. Ironically, most people revered Bob Graham, believing he was a great theologian.