Originally man had no other explanation to his questions other then his imagination.
Human rulers of the people – inculcated the premise of human rulers of nature.
All of the gods looked like men, and some looked like women.
This ancient religious estimation had also taken on the same structure as the government, in which there was a religious hierarchy.
This eventually became organized religion, and this was man’s attempt at governing the unknown.
The “logical” right to certain unknown things such as what happens after people die – was the “right” of the religion, as it claimed such knowledge was its property. Religion soon layed claim to all of the unknown.
What ever ruled the secular lives of the people, found its way into the religious theories. Native American’s lives were ruled by nature, for example, and thus the spirits of nature and the animal-spirits/gods appeared to also be the controlling factors of the unknown.
Far later in civilization, science began to truly explain some things, but all of the ancient religions still felt as if they owned the unknown.
The things that scientists could not disprove – became the main and final property of the religions.
Originally out of mere ignorance, the Isrealite and Muslim cultures combined monarchy with the unknown, this creating the monotheism. The arrogance and petty ways of the king, combined with the craved virtue of the king – became the “personality” of the single “god”.
As time passed, ancient religions prepetually and grandually mutated into the modern cult and the modern traditional religion.
Within human psychology, there is a natural and inborn weakness that a man has – in which he estimates that a large group of people are right, even though they have no physical proof of their claim at that modern time. This human weakness – also became human “spirituality”. The natural desire to progress, and to somehow get beyond human limits – combined with the mystic theories, to form human “spirituality”.
I predict that only once technology provides what the religions promised but good not physically give – will ancient religion “die out”.
The desire to become immortal, the desire to stop suffering, the desire to know the future, the desire to get beyond human limitations – these are all the only fuel behind anything from occult to religion. A cure for old age, a cure for great suffering, an accurate prediction for the future, and physical/genetic upgrades, – these will eventually be humanly & physically possible.
Religious zeal – is a combination of brain washing, herding instinct and strong desire for understanding/power. Religion is not a sign of human advancement, it is a sign of human suffering and lacking.
I have already forgiven the “Jew” – I have forgiven the semitic culture and religion that contaminates many great nations, but I still consider it all a form of cruelty.
To lie to a child and invoke great fear by claims about hell, and to lie to a child and invoke great craving for heaven – this should not be allowed!
When you build a desire within a person, but never actually give them what you promised, this is cruelty.
Human spirituality should be left alone, and it should be freed from religion – but this will not happen today or tomarrow, because of how deeply these ideas bore into civilization.
Today, many people would rather die then give up their belief, because their belief promises them something better then life on earth.
This is a deep form of escapism, and I will consider it to be a mental illness.
Although I may feel frustrated with it all, I cannot stop it…
This “spiritual” guessing game about the unknown has always been rather fruitless, and for anyone to avoid religion all-together, would not be a bad choice.
). That function can never be replaced by science, because science basically deals with the objective world only.