Twisting reason before offering faith. Distorting the joys and pleasures in life before offering of salvation. These are among the fundamental ways to organize a religion. The capital to start with is fear: fear of the mysteries, fear of the unknown, and fear of death. Sales, marketing, advertising, accounting and bookkeeping are needless. The business is tax-free. The goal: destroy the minds and hearts of children to grow up mindless and heartless for the glory of divinity. This lucrative commercial enterprise is also known as “organized religion” in general. In particular, however, they are called Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Each, by the way, still embracing a 14th century mentality now happy and proud to be in possession of 21st century weapons of mass destruction for war to destroy each other including atheists, agnostics, and heretics like me.
In the meantime, all the great religions of the world - Judaism, Islam, and Christianity – have their roots in fear and barbarism on the one hand, and on the other, ignorance and superstition. Otherwise, if only the revealed truths have already been revealed, the God behind these great religions should have been the creative and healthy impact on global history, and not just the destructive and sick faith of a local mystery. Poch Suzara
1 comment:
Poch:
You deserve a lot more commenting.
I hope readers don't lose too much by first trying to figure out who's side you are on.
I like your blog.
I will have to disagree slightly with your generalization: the roots of "abrahamic" religions [and present practices in many cases] are not purely fear and ignorance and tribalism...mostly, but not purely. More important is the matter of how true to these roots the religions have remained. In my opinion, the more fundamentalist, the more barbaric and tribal the practices and beliefs. The good I have found in these religions appears to have been grafted on by subsequent generations of interpreters. That hardly makes god necessary and, yes I am pretty much a humanist. I consider tolerance of religions useful as a prelude to dialogs wherein you can challenge the faithful to live up to the benign parts of their creed.
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