Religion - An Aide or Absconder of Life
March 02, 2019
Some very dear friends feel that Religion should be abolished -- indeed, made a crime towards reason and humanity. I don't have much use for religion in my life. But still, I often speak as a defender of it.
Consider this. A 'Country' is as nebulous and abstract an idea as Religion. Far more people have been killed defending borders and protecting sovereignty, infinitely more blood has been shed over centuries by rulers and politicians. Isn't that the greater evil, then? But we don't hear calls for the abolishment of all government, armies, and establishing the Earth as a common community. We consider patriotism a perfectly legitimate and noble ideal.
Money. Another abstraction. Allows some people to 'stock' wealth rather than hunt/gather/farm/pick/labor and survive day by day, as humans were meant to. That's what survival of the fittest meant. Money keeps the majority of the planet poor so that a few can store away their right to 'richness'. Monetary greed has led to even more bloodshed than patriotism. But we're not trying to abolish money; in fact, we encourage our children to work towards wealth and success.
All of these concepts, these abstractions, go against Reason.
But Faith, like patriotism and success and achievement, gives people a sense of self. Not everyone is fortunate enough to live thinking, contented lives. Religion is sometimes their very identity and makes a very tough life livable and depend on a holy spirit to keep their faith in life. Don't be in a hurry to take it away from them because some people debase it or use it in twisted, inhuman ways. Make no mistake, those people would have found other devices to kill and control.
Take away religion and you'll be left with a planet full of very empty, very frightened and very lost people. Lost, frightened people will always be controlled by some force or the other. It might as well be God (or gods), who the vast majority agree wants them to live good lives rather than bad, be moral rather than immoral, and care for each other rather than hate.
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