It is undeniable that in religion and religious books there are many positive themes, positive sentences, but it’s also undeniable these types of documents and scripts were deliberately written in free style interpretation, that every reader can subjectively say what is the meaning of these texts. Now add priests, gurus, pastors, other monks and all preachers who were promoted to religion, to increase their “flock”, and realize that it was they who had interpreted, considering that texts from these books can be anything, and that they have authority over you will, you yourself accepted them as well as their interpretation, because in your mind the text, and explaining that you received could be “true” and that is exactly what pastor, priest, guru, or any authority, had said. People tend to go to any authority in the field believe to death. He was the man with PhD, or a respected preacher, the same. He holds to that authority, it symbolizes that you need him to believe all what he says.
Add another national connection with religion, and you have a very dangerous tool for manipulation.
Many people do not want to debate about religion in general, do not want to listen, they heard while they were small, built their belief, their template of behavior, and if someone brings into question all of this, they will automatically draw the threads, why? Why you have no idea what they were talking about. They know what they were told, and nothing more.
The point is the way of spiritual introspection. Peep into your mind in your deep thoughts, allowing the senses to go inside. To stop the programmed mind, and to let it flow, and to look at it. This is popularly called meditation, but the word is so distorted that it is almost useless.
Meditation is silence between thoughts, and thoughts, like a car, approaching from a distance, from the latent form and become thoughts, images, memories, smell, became the “internal reality”.
Religion as a politic came to my mind.
If you think about politics, it is a structure that has the name, purpose and beliefs or rules.
Religion, as well…name, purpose, beliefs or rules.
A group of people, liberals, who have a belief in certain factors and to act in accordance with these factors, and who call themselves liberals.
A group of people, Catholics, who have a belief in certain factors and that (should) act in accordance with these factors, and who called themselves Catholics.
Hierarchy “authority” is the same.
The difference between politics and religion is that religion is not confined to the continent.
The fundamental logic between politics and religion, is identical.
Why people who want to be spiritual simply don’t read spiritual scripts and find their way? Why do we need to be a lost sheep where some authority have to literally rule our life (even private ) and not only guide us to better understanding of scripts?
When religion became a place for someone to tell us that we are sinners, to give us order when to sleep with our spouse or how to raise our kids, instead of talking about God’s scripts of spirituality?? Why in a Church, Temple, Mosk, a house of god we are used to hear criticism more than honoring, why are we listening more about hate and devil then about love and god?
The thing is that 80 % of religious followers would consider some fake leader also a “man of god” if they haven’t been warned. Anyone who wants to preach to them with gospel, they will accept him as bona fide, no matter how distorted teaching is given to them. As long as someone is saying: “Jesus, hallelujah, amen” is considered a pastor to them, and worth a place of a ruler of their life (even of a family life). Many of them are nice people, I’m sure, but due to blind faith they cant see a crook before a warning. If we don’t silent evil at least a bit by our own effort, why would god do it for us?? We have our free will and responsibilities, why to wait god makes something 24/7 and stay totally inactive for our own lives? I’m not against any kind of religion in particular. I’m just very much against making people stupid and unable to lead their life without a guide of a preacher, without a way to see through a fake leader. Accepting someone as a guide too fast to easily, giving money without checking, and the most important is a possibility to ruin a genuine spirituality that we might have had by blindly following distorted teaching.
I don’t care much even if i give some small donation to literally Anyone! I wont miss it later and it might be helpful to someone right now. But, I prefer to give to charity or even on the streets, than to support someone who makes a business out of god and who have much more than i do. As long as you follow every fellow who says ” I’m a pastor, i am a priest, i am a guru, i am a leader. . . “, as long as you don’t see you are able to lead and rule your own life according to your beliefs, as long as you feel a need for a leader to tell you when to sleep with your wife/husband or how to raise your kids, i wont be sorry for some fake ass takes your money or brake your created illusion of salvation, all in the “name of god”.
Before we wake up and accept that God is our leader as our guts and scripts, we will continue to say “amen” of every fake word of order.
Jay!!! Hallelujah!!!
Leaders sometimes say that human being is not capable of pure malice and evil acts. That If someone is doing any kind of crime of offence or “sin”, that is because of devil’s work or demons, but not by men.
Thats not the devil’s work as some of followers say by accepting that distorted teachings. PEOPLE are doing bad stuff and WE are responsible for our actions. Why to leave someone out of his responsibility by saying that its devil’s work??? If someone preaches fake and he knows what he is doing but yet continues to do so, then he is very aware of his acts. If he is taking money from poor followers to support his luxury lifestyle and all in the name of charity then he, and he alone is doing a transgression. Should he be forgiven? Yes, he if he honestly repents and after he get some kind of legal sanction for it. But he should never be forgiven based on fake preaching that he himself as a human being is not guilty, but the devil and demons are doing it in his body instead. In some christian churches it was a common thing. Those types of guys you could meet on a daily basis, everyone calling them ” a man of god” till some time after they don’t find out some secret agenda behind his preach. HE is the one wanna take your money in name of Jesus!! HE, not the devil. He is just a small fraud guy, not even a big deal, and yet you are calling it a devil deed. Devil have better things to do than take your small money. He is more sophisticated than you think. So, all that crime and mistakes, and so-called sins are made by HUMANS! We shouldn’t let people get away from their deeds by saying: “its not you, its the devil, or demons”. Its all US my dear reader, its all us!
So, to bring this to an end.
When we became idiots that we cant use our own intelligence to study scripts?
When we became slaves to leaders or slaves to God?
When we became oblivious that we are the ones who are doing bad things sometimes, not the devil and demons inside us?
When we became incapable of judging where is the limit of instructions for spirituality and where becomes masochistic behavior where we need someone to order us when to have sex or how to name our children?
When the public became private and vice versa?
You know when? When religion became politic!!!!!