I feel like it could get a bit dark as to how much and how far religious fanatics have come and are going to literally control and discipline if one is seen to deviate from the official line. Due to the belief in the miracle and to make a miracle as the central spirit of their mysticism, they have become willing and do not hesitate to deploy each and every known device and know how to wickedly influence, coerce, dominate and subjugate everyone and everyone. each of the true ones. and perceived deviants One may scream out loud and there is no help or even sympathy despite constitutional guarantees of individual rights to worship or not to worship, to belong or not to belong at all
I think this letter complements Daniel Dennet’s article on religion in “The Guardian UK Thursday 16 July 2009”. Although I do not agree with his ideas about what religion and spirituality should be and how they should be practiced, I do agree with his description of evil practices by some and even the overwhelming majority of organized religion authorities. Organized religion has to do with the interest and fulfillment of the material class and the group, not with the inner search for truth and individual and social self-realization despite the bold self-portrait. As for making the most vital decisions of our lives in consultation with our inner voices, I cannot understand the objections to that as we all make our vital life and death decisions in consultation with our inner voices and I see no exception to that. . But if our internal voices somehow become internal voices of the authorities of our religions, internal voices, as is often the case, the concern is justified.
Organization presupposes classification, professionalism, specialization, and division of labor on the basis of this stratification. defense of their acquired or given status. If some irrationality is tolerated or encouraged in any social structure, there is no need to explain that only those who can and are in a position to do it can do it and it is clear who those could be that needs no explanation. However, the only important note to make here is that all hierarchical social structures are susceptible to encouraging acts of irrationality and irrational exuberance to varying degrees (the curse of division of labor and social stratification).
Since these religious institutions and social structures gave rise to science and the scientific institution and the continued ineptitude of the latter to find answers to the fundamental and perplexing problems of the beginning, the present existence, and the future destiny of ourselves and everything else; it had engendered and continues to engender the constant appeal of the practice of religion and spirituality. The truth of spirituality has been for Melina and I am sure it will continue for another in an effort to find in oneself the truth and the self that is absent in the material and scientific world out there, here and everywhere. That search in the gaps by itself between the material realities of yesterday, today and tomorrow, what we can only achieve with our intuition and what we can only imagine and cannot quantify and qualify by all the other forms and means available, will always draw . us to spirituality individually and collectively.