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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