132. Personal religion: Eliminate personal feeling from religious experience/practice (which is by no means the same thing as eliminating emotion, as such) and in one blow you knock out the million reasons for taking offense when some ignoramus makes an irreverent or thoughtless remark about one’s personal savior or one’s ‘national-tribal’ God. But perhaps only one in a million believers is capable of undergoing such enlightened surgical procedures. Likewise, when all considerations for one’s PERSONAL SALVATION have been extinguished, it is a safe bet that the personal ego has successfully been extinguished as well. Given the rarity of such instances of ego-transcendence, it should not be surprising that religion—even so-called religions of love, of peace, and of universal brotherhood—have been behind perhaps the bloodiest wars mankind has waged against itself.
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