Isn't religion a creation of humanity?
On my own personal beliefs, yes, I do believe and worship divinities, but I find it pathetic how humanity has evolved with such a way of turning faith into the basis of all organization.
Are humans that desperate for a power superior?
Are they so terribly desperate for something to rule over them?
Or maybe it is simply the eternal need to justify unanswered questions.
Humanity fears the unknown behond explanation.
What we don't understand is so horribly scary, is it not?
Why do we have to explain every single thing in the world?
Most religions defend that some things are holy mysteries, not intended to be uncovered. If that is the case, tell me -Is not religion itself just a way to explain that which can not be explained (yet)?
What happens to religious faith when dogmas of the past are so brutally uncovered by evolution?
And if religion is a way of organization, if it is the desire to simply have something superior to rule them...Well then why is faith one of the main excuses for war, chaos and destruction?
Why is it that the institution that is supposed to defend peace above all else such an excuse for discrimination?
Are we all that desperate for a power unknown to rule over us?
The need of the "little" men to feel equal to the rest of the world by believing in a superior power, and the desire of the "big" men to gain more power over others justified by religion and beliefs, only cause more doubt in my mind that religion is a pure selfless way of life, instead of a selfish need for valorization.
If there is truly a God almighty, is he better than a pagan Goddess or a native Spirit? If there really are divine saints are their words, actions or beliefs any better than that of a common man (athetist or not)?
Why is a religion better than another? Just because men of power in it say so?! Can they not all be related and/or equal in their own way? Is the Dalai Lama not as honourable as the Pope? Are shamans not as worthy as priests or rabis?
After so many millenia of evolution how can the world still believe taht so many holy scriptures and religious ideals have not been conveniantly manipulated by the hands of men thru History??!!
Are we not supposed to be equal? And even if we are not then aren't our differences what complete us and teach us how to evolve?
Why can't faith simply be a part of personal life and/or philosophy instead of a tool to rule the world and the masses?
Would a king be any better as a ruler if he had/hadn't been blessed and accepted by his church?
Should a kingdom cease to be so merely because the people have different faiths?
Why do we allow religiously powerful ideals to tell us how to act? I am not talking about teaching us moral and ethics like they should, I'm talking about being told how to talk, how to act, who to love, how to die...
Do not let faith tell you what to want or what to think, listen to it you wish, but don't allow it to control you blindly. Think and judge for yourself, you are a person afterall with your own mind, not a religious bolt in a machine that is faith.
Now prove me right and hate me for this essay...
Peace my friends, to all, no matter what you believe in.
Val
