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What is Religion? (Part Fifteen)

by Seeker

Big ‘R’ Religion is about control, about bringing a mass of people into a system whereby the few at the top can benefit from the programming of the masses. Pyramid schemes have been banned in a lot of countries and for good reason. Unless you are in the top couple of rungs of the pyramid, they are a rip-off of all those ‘faithful’ in the lower levels.

Big ‘R’ Religion is about using an intermediary to stand between a soul and its own path, to interrupt the journey forward, the gaining and application of personal views and knowledge and to use authority to forcefeed the population with ideas that have less to do with salvation and more to do with personal greed.

Please note that I am very definitely NOT condemning here everyone involved in those institutions. There are wonderful people in all areas of life who give all they have to try to make this world a better place. But the institution and those shadowy figures at the top of the tree are not those wonderful people. At some point they have sold out whatever personal belief they might have had in the Religion and they have moved soley into personal aggrandizement as a goal.

Little ‘r’ religion is about growth, about developing as a being and finding ways to improve the world for all around us. It brings techniques for doing those things we need to do for us to achieve immortality and greatness, and it can pass along knowledge from the past.


Posted in Alternative Thinking, History, New Age, Religion on August 25th, 2008

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