WHAT RELIGIOUS FAITH AND NARCOTICS HAVE IN COMMON

THOUGHTS ON WHAT RELIGIOUS FAITH AND NARCOTICS HAVE IN COMMON Where ever one finds a high level of physical pain or mental anxiety one will find a high level of religious faith and the use of narcotics. The reason for this interdependent relationship is not that difficult to understand. No one likes pain or the feeling of anxiety; so we reach for anything that promises relief from them. Religion, unlike narcotics, promises the resolution of all pain and anxiety and adds an afterlife of bliss. Narcotic tries to match that claim by dulling the pain and anxiety and by slowing the ageing process; cryonics is an example – sub-freezing a human body then returning it to its natural state years later: thus staying young, like in heaven. I have this notion about life and whatever condition I find myself in – I did or am doing more to contribute to that condition than anyone else. Or put another way, I should be doing more to contribute to my condition than anyone else. No amount of faith or narcotics will free one of pain or anxiety – heaven (bliss) does not nor will it ever exist. As human beings, we will either accept the fact that our fate is in our hands or we will continue to suffer waiting for bliss to be given us. http://www.adolphusward.net http://www.amazon.com/Adolphus-A.-Ward/e/B00OSDSSRC