On Religion

"Well established hierarchies are not easily uprooted; Closely held beliefs are not easily released; So ritual enthralls generation after generation." Tao Te Ching; 38 Ritual 

For tens of thousands of years, the tribes of humankind have fought amongst each other in the name of their religion. Religion is a poison that corrupts and enslaves our minds. Religion is the root of all evil in the world. All religions are designed fundementally to control the populace. Unfortunately the designers are all dead so there's no way they can defend themselves. But nevertheless, I indict religion.

The belief in a religion is a sort of racism, an arrogance. When religion is embraced, many religions raise the believers of the religion to a higher class - the believers feel that having been "saved" by the religion, that they are somehow blessed. It's no great leap of the imagination to next believe that they are somehow better than the non-believers. But nothing can be further from the truth. Religion does not make you a better person. Your deeds make you a better person. And you don't need to perform heroic acts of courage or waste away the years helping the poor, you simply need to hold the door open for someone or say thank you. It is service to your fellow humans that make you a better person. No one can warp this simple concept into validating the flying of planes into buildings or the bombing of a seaport. It's not possible. Being nice to other people is as fundemental as it gets. It's not even something you have to learn because everything you need to know about it was taught to you when you were a child.

Religion will also make you think that you are somehow above the other animals of the world. So you'll completely miss out on what it means to be alive. You'll be blind to history. History is not just the Civil War or the War of the Roses. History goes back to over 15 billion years. Religion causes you to ignore this wonderful glorious intensely interesting story. Instead you'll believe in Angels and Ghosts and UFOs when right there before you every cloudless night is the 15 billion years of history. Our own planet has over 5 billion years of history which you can see in the rocks. You can see it in the plants as well. And in your thumb.

Religion will cause you to only see things in your own way. Religion teaches you that everything you need to know is accounted for and that you don't have to ask questions. You don't have to worry about anything because your religion is right and so are you. You therefor can't feel a real feeling of compasion because you're done. You know it all and it is all well. But your mind is poisoned. Your heart is truly consumed in the hatred of the non-believers. You are sick and you will die and you will be dead. Such a waste of life.

And when you find those around you all believe in the same religion. And when you find these people believe in the same things as you. And when all of your hearts are frozen, you feign to begin a campaign to convert those non-believers. But because you're really twisted and sick and full of hatred, your concern is above all the punishment of the non-believers, not the conversion. And your campaign can only turn to violence because your religion is twisted and sick and full of hatred at it's core. Religion is truly evil.

Religion is all about control. Religion has it's hierarchy. A supreme being is at the top. But religion is also all about arrogance and that arrogance has replaced the sumpreme being with his prophet. And his prophet was a human. A human that was conceived and then annointed. And yet nature shows quite sucinctly that there is no center to the universe or perhaps that the universe is the center. And certainly no human could ever be the center. This is in direct conflict with 15 billion years of history. These are mutually exclusive concepts - the one cancels out the other. And yet there is evidence of the history. The man must be taken on faith. And faith is a human concept and a tool for control. No need to ask questions because of your faith. Faith blinds you to the world and you become sick and twisted and full of hatred.

Religion teaches you that you will ascend to a higher plane in the after life. But there is no after life. When you die, you are dead and it's as if you never existed in the first place. There is no judgement day. There is however the 15 billion years. Again two mutually exclusive concepts. Your time here is so short. Such a pity to waste it in believing in something after. The afterlife is a child's story to calm your fears about dieing or explain away the passing of a loved one. But embrace your mortality. Make it all worthwhile. This is all the time you have. You do not have time to waste. There is not a better place. There is here and there is now and that's it, quit complaining and lamenting and wishing because you're missing it.

Educate yourself, love one another and Wonder.