Religions are authoritarian hierarchies designed to dominate
your free will. They’re power structures that aim to convince you
to give away your power for the benefit of those who enjoy
dominating people. When you subscribe to a religion, you enroll in
a mindless minion training program. Religions don’t market
themselves as such, but this is essentially how they operate.
Religions are very effective at turning human beings into sheep.
They’re among the most powerful instruments of social conditioning.
They operate by eroding your trust in your own intellect, gradually
convincing you to put your trust into some external entity, such as
a deity, prominent figure, or great book. Of course these
instruments are usually controlled by those who administrate the
minion training program, but they don’t have to be. Simply by
convincing you to give your power away to something outside
yourself, religion will condition you to be weaker, more docile,
and easier to control. Religions actively promote this weakening
process as if it were beneficial, commonly branding it with the
word faith. What they’re actually promoting is
submission.
Religions strive to fill your head with so much nonsense that
your only recourse is to bow your head in submission, often quite
literally. Get used to spending a lot of time on your knees because
acts of submission such as bowing and kneeling are frequently
incorporated into religious practice. Canine obedience training
uses similar tactics. Now say, “Yes, Master.”
Have you ever wondered why religious teachings are invariably
mysterious, confusing, and internally incongruent? This is no
accident by the way — it’s quite intentional.
By putting forth confusing and internally conflicting
information, your logical mind (i.e. your neocortex) is
overwhelmed. You try in vain to integrate such contradictory
beliefs, but it can’t be done. The net effect is that your logical
mind disengages because it can’t find a pattern of core truth
beneath all the nonsense, so without the help of your neocortex,
you devolve to a more primitive (i.e. limbic) mode of thinking.
You’re taught that this faith-based approach is a
more spiritual and conscious way to live, but in reality it’s
precisely the opposite. Getting you to distrust your own cerebral
cortex actually makes you dumber and easier to manipulate and
control. Karl Marx was right when he said, “Religion is the opiate
of the people.”
For example, the Old Testament and the New Testament in the
Bible frequently contradict each other with various rules of
conduct, yet both are quoted during mass. Church leaders also
behave in direct violation of the Church’s teachings, such as by
covering up criminal and immoral activities by their own priests.
Those who try to mentally process such glaring contradictions as
coherent truth invariably suffer for it. A highly conscious person
would reject membership in such an organization as patently
ridiculous. So-called divine mysteries are engineered to be
incomprehensible. You aren’t meant to ever make sense of them since
that would defeat the whole purpose. When you finally wake up
and realize it’s all B.S., you’ve taken the first step towards
freedom from this oppressive system.
The truth is that so-called religious authorities don’t know any
more about spirituality than you do. However, they know how to
manipulate your fear and uncertainty for their own benefit. How
nice of you to let them.
Although the most popular religions are very old, L. Ron Hubbard
proved the process can be replicated from scratch in modern times.
As long as there are large numbers of people who fear the
responsibility of their own power, religions will continue to
dominate the landscape of human development.
If you want to talk to God, then communicate directly instead of
using third-party intermediaries. Surely God has no need of an
interpreter. Don’t fall into the trap of becoming a mindless
minion. It’s a mistake to think that turning off your neocortex and
practicing mindless “faith” will bring you closer to God. In truth
it will only bring you closer to dog.
If you devote serious time to the practice of religion, it’s
safe to say you practice toilet-bowl time management,
flushing much of your precious life down the drain with little or
nothing to show for it.
First, you’ll waste a lot of time filling your head with useless
nonsense. This includes reading some of the worst fiction ever
written. Then there are various rules, laws, and practices to
learn.
Seriously, if you have insomnia, try reading religious texts
before bedtime. You’ll be asleep faster than you can say
Methuselah. Why do you think hotels put Bibles next to the bed?
It’s the greatest sedative known to man. I have to give props to
the Scientologists for at least incorporating space aliens into
their stories. It’s a shame Gene Roddenberry didn’t
formally invent his own religion; Stovokor sounds
like a lot of fun.
Once you finally realize your head has been filled with utter
nonsense, you must then purge such garbage from your mind if you
want your brain to be functional again. That can take considerably
longer, assuming you succeed at all. It’s like trying to uninstall
AOL from your hard drive.
Next, you can expect to waste even more time on repetitive
ritual and ceremony, such as attending mass, learning prayers, and
practicing unproductive meditations.
If I add up the time I attended mass and Sunday school, studied
religion in school as if it were a serious subject, and memorized
various prayers, I count thousands of hours of my life I’d love to
have back. I did, however, learn some important lessons, many of
which are being shared in this article.
I especially remember listening to a lot of bad sermons; most
priests are hideously poor speakers. Maybe it’s because they drink
alcohol while on duty.
Now if you really go overboard and throw in learning a dead
language for good measure, you can kiss years of your life
goodbye.
The more time you devote to religious practice, the more you
waste your life on pointless, dead-end pursuits… and the more
you’ll want to delude yourself with a phony “Hehe, I meant to do
that” attitude.
