Thoughts and Scraps
Religion glorifies the lowest common denominator in human nature. Our most primitive, barbaric tendency to judge, control, ostracise, divide, conquer, and dehumanize. It makes the human ego the center of everything at all costs, no matter how catastrophic.
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Love
What is real love? Pure love?
If such a thing really exists I think it would have the following characteristics:
It wouldn't be controlling, it wouldn't coerce, force or terrify. It wouldn't use promise of punishment and reward to control behavior. It would be understanding and compassionate.
It wouldn't demand love, worship or obedience.
It would be without conditions.
It would listen without judgement.
Wouldn't try to force you to repress normal human experiences.
It would help you achieve your greatest potential.
It would encourage independant, honest thought, questioning, curiosity, and discovery.
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Sometimes we get too attached to a belief about something when we really need to scrap what we think and start over from scratch, looking at things from a fresh perspective.
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The greatest freedom is giving up hope.
To stop clinging valiantly to pipe dream pie in the sky wishes.
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Our attachment to ego breeds a fear of death. If we can see beyond our ego, we can free ourselves from this fear.
Dear believer, it isn't that I've got a closed mind, but that I've opened it to skepticism and opened my eyes to the weakness of us humans to fall into the trap of bias and self-deceit. I've come to see this everywhere in many different forms. We are swimming in this sea of illusion that we create for ourselves to comfort us, to make us feel special, to make us feel important, and to give us a feeling of order and structure. Last but not least, I've gained an appreciation of reality, truth, and the natural world.
God is mans' way of glorifying himself.
New age/woo is merely pseudospiritual masturbation.
In seeking the truth, one should fit their conclusions to the evidence, rather than the evidence to their conclusions.
Jesus is a cruel psycho-emotional manipulation making one feel guilty for what he has not himself done and obligated for what he did not ask for.
The mind is as complex as the ocean is deep. And no matter how much of the mind one explores, you may never discover all its murky depths.
Religion is to human nature what a lit match is to gasoline.
Anything can be committed, justified, or excused if you put god behind it.
It is said that human beings are the most intelligent species. We also have the greatest capacity for stupidity.
