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“Anything is justifiable in the name of religion.”
- Xenocrates
Over the last couple of months, my blog entries have focused on the lies most ubiquitously propagated by religion. I’ve sought to explain this phenomenon through analyzing the responses I’ve gotten from many folks - particularly those who’ve responded to me in person. From talking to these people, I’ve established a most discernable pattern: The average person is a linear thinker. They tend to accept most ideas at face value and interpret most problems using the most conspicuous parameters defined by that problem. They assume that the underlying premise is true so long as it appears to make sense - whether or not it actually does. This is why people believe so many of the highly illogical and perhaps even nonsensical things they do - especially as it relates to religion. In this entry, I will discuss some of the core ideas we’ve come to know in religion and how we can use critical thinking to expose the illogical nature of these teachings. You will see that deception is more of a science than an art and you will understand why it is used to snare the minds of the simple minded.
“Two billion people believing the same lie doesn’t make it any less of a lie.”
- Xenocrates
One of the key dangers of religion is the fact that it operates based on lack of proof. This means that anyone can reinvent religious dogma and people will still buy it, because it doesn’t need proof for credibility. So imagine a church congregation packed with believers who’ve just sung a heart warming hymn. It is now that time in the service for the sermon to be ministered. The preacher steps up to the podium and proceeds to elucidate the congregation about things in the Bible they probably already know about. However, today, he decides to take a few liberties with the text, spinning his own version of the “truth” to the audience. Nobody in the congregation knows any better, since they assume that the pastor must know what he’s talking about. Everybody just nods “amen” until the altar call and the service wraps. They close their Bibles, go home, and forget at least half of what was said earlier that day. It is those who don’t forget and dare to question the pastor’s logic who are often considered outcasts and heretics. How dare you think differently? They are told: “Don’t question it! Just have faith! God moves in mysterious ways…blah, blah, blah“… Stop me if this is sounding all too familiar.
If you can identify with anything in the above paragraph, then this post is for you. Read on, wayfaring stranger.
“To believe without reason, is to live without purpose.”
- Xenocrates
I’ve always wondered why Christianity has so many different sects and denominations. Every congregation that I visit has a new spin on the same system of belief. It’s like experiencing a culture shock at each congregation I visit. There are so many philosophical differences, that people literally grow up blindly subscribing to one ideology that they think is right as opposed to another - which they often think is unchristian. Christianity is so divided, that it’s division is more conspicuous than its unity. But there’s a lot more wrong with the whole system other than just that. Follow me for a moment while I discuss some of the more disturbing things about this the most popular faith (or con?) on earth.
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