Why, then, do we have organized religion? It presents mysteries that are often never explained. It goes on in depth on details easily summarized. It creates cells, units and coteries that often squabble with each other and on a grand scheme lead to power struggles including wars, zealotry, inquisitions, witch hunts, and other horrors. Its best advantage is to provide us with parables and teachings on how to love our fellow man, but even these are often filled with vague and obscure concepts, as opposed to exact rules that the student should follow. Further, members of organized religion often encourage their followers to read exhaustive tomes filled with a seemingly superfluous amount of information that the students are required to learn and memorize, but information which, apparently, has little direct impact on their daily life and on how they treat their fellow human beings. Instead, experts on religious texts typically have little to offer their fellow man except data which they often drone on about regarding a topic that has little bearing on anything, except that it provides a forum for debate or argument regarding grand or deep concepts that are rarely solved, and if solved, will likely have no direct impact on another’s immediate life. Of course, humanity does not need organized religion as a mechanism to stimulate argument or violence; we are quite capable of pursuing those things no matter what our beliefs are. —Julius Windsor, Xenoanthropologist
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:27:31 +0000
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