I’d really like to uninvent weapons of mass destruction, like automatic guns and bombs, but human beings, unfortunately, are destructive geniuses. They’d come up with other ways to kill one another on massive scales. It must be in our DNA, or fast food, or something.
So, I’m going to settle for something else, equally destructive: organised religion. It’s conceivable that plain old unorganised religion was devised as a means to understand the universe and to pay homage to the “forces” behind it that we have not yet been able to adequately explain. There’s nothing much wrong with this.
Organised religion, on the other hand, had to have been invented by men (not women, although the jury is still out on that one), as a means to profit from the insecurities of other men and women, and to structure their hatreds, of which there are many.
It’s a genius invention which people like Kenneth Copeland, Joel Osteen, David Oyedepo, Creflo Dollar, T.D. Jakes and Benny Hill will confirm as they laugh all the way to their banks. Meanwhile, the rest of us who are coughing up the dough will tell you it’s nice to be part of an organised spiritual enterprise, and to feel valued, and that it’s a small price to pay to the “forces” for a future beyond the thing that petrifies us – death.
Get rid of organised religion and watch people go back to worshipping whatever their imaginations dream up in the privacy of their homes, while keeping their hatreds to themselves. And oh, save some money that would otherwise go to the likes of those mentioned earlier for a fancy headstone.
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I agree that there’s much to criticize in religion. But I see no harm in people getting together on Sunday morning for simple worship. I recognize some of the names you list, but I’ve never personally come across anyone who’d endorse these. Perhaps you could compare religion to soccer. You get nice people who just want to watch the game, you get people who see it in tribal terms and want to fight supporters on other teams and you get people who do well financially by exploiting others; for example counterfeit jersey markets are tied to illegal immigration crime, drug networks, and prostitution rings. But I wouldn’t want to uninvent soccer. I would just steer clear of the nasty folk.
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Yes, I agree. I’m not criticizing religion per sec, but the organised form of religion which is fundamentally corrupt, and corrupts in return.
I feel people need to go back to worshipping their respective deities in the privacy of their homes, free from organisation under divisive tents.
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