Sunday, November 15, 2015

MY THOUGHTS ON RELIGION AND GOD

MY THOUGHTS ON RELIGION AND SUBJUGATION All forms of religion, ancient and present day, have one thing in common – it seeks to bring everything and everyone under its influence – to subjugate all. The more civil forms of religion seek to do that by persuasion; the less civil forms do it by force. All religions were born in mythology; ancient human attempts at understanding the awesome wonder of their existence and the world around them. Human wonder developed stories to give wonder some meaning; ancients created gods, moderns created a God as central to their stories. These stories progressed into beliefs – beliefs progressed into rituals which reinforced the beliefs. And so, all humans who practice a religion are following a mythology, a wonder, a story, a belief, a God and rituals which they and their ancestors created. Religion is an extremely powerful force because it is at the core of human psyche – all humans are influenced by the awesomeness of existence whether or not they practice a religion. Religion, though a powerful force, has no volition of its own. That is, it cannot move and direct its own action: that makes it vulnerable and easily exploited by those who have wealth and political power. GOD is not in control of anything- HUMANS are. http://www.adolphusward.net http://www.amazon.com/Adolphus-A.-Ward/e/B00OSDSSRC

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