Being Religious"An ignorant people is generally a religious people, and a religious people nearly always an immoral people."John RemsburgPeople who claim to be religious usually aren't. They believe that following some doctrine, dogma or egotistical self-appointed "agent of God" makes them religious, when in fact following anything, like a brainless sheep, is the antithesis of true religion. Not being able to think for yourself is not a mark of great religious piety but a sign of being cut off from creativity, which is the realm of the Creator Itself. No person blindly following the uncreative life prescribed by a religious doctrine is close to the Creator but is in reality deadened to the Creative Life Force, which is " God"; hence, he or she is unreligious.
Do Pompous Pride and Religiosity Go Together?
Those who profess to be religious usually do so with great pride and feeling of being good. They think that they are getting brownie points with some deity in the sky or some society creature. Others who hear their declarations of "I am a very religious person" nod their heads in tremendous approval, approval that the sheepish "religious" child desperately wants.
Oddly enough, the pride and ego-boosting that come along with such declarations are signs of irreligiousness, of insecurity and a definite separation from "God." By saying that you are religious, you are in effect implying that there is something about yourself that is superior to the person who does not make such a claim. You are arrogantly setting yourself apart from other human beings simply because you can shamelessly obey the doctrine of institutions that have mindlessly and violently wreaked havoc upon this planet.
Being a Zombie is Not a Religious Experience
Believing in a male father-figure in the sky, and ignorantly and uncreatively following rules set forth hundreds and thousands of years ago by a man or men, are anything but religious experiences. The agents of such dead experiences thoroughly love that so many other people in the world think this is the definition of religion. They benefit greatly by keeping people enslaved to dead dogma and in a state of perpetual childhood. Obey! Don't question authority! Marry and reproduce! Don't think for yourselves! Family is good! Father knows best! Follow the Christian ethic! Baa! Baa! Baa!
A person in such a state never really knows what he or she is doing, unless it is the most basic of acts, like sleeping or going to the can. But when real, hard decisions come flying down the pike, these people cannot think for themselves and must go running to one of their authority figures, such as a priest or even a psychiatrist - who is the priest of his own religion - for the answers to their lives' dilemmas. This is to suppose that other people know who you are more than you do and can determine your life better than you can. Not knowing yourself and putting your life in the hands of others, whether a terrestrial father or the Great Daddy in the Sky, is most definitely not a religious experience by any enlightened definition.
In fact, not knowing yourself is unenlightenment, which is considered the opposite of a religious experience in many cultures and religious traditions. Even the mythical writer of the biblical Galatians informs and exhorts his followers: "My little children, with whom I am again in travail until the Christ be formed in you." (Emphasis added.) What this correctly means is that until you become Christ - Christ is a spiritual state of union with divinity, not a Jewish man - you are just a child, you are not fully formed. The whole point of real religion is to create enlightened, awakened, fully formed adults who take responsibility for themselves and do not pass it off on any savior, messiah or father god. A so-called religion that causes one to become crippled, self-mortifying and self-deprecating is not a religion but a social system of controlling the masses through psychological deformation and retardation.
Surrendering your existence to a fictitious daddy in heaven or his savior son is not a religious experience. For those who know what a religious experience is - that is, an epiphany whereby the entire universe becomes a blessing - followers of organized religion who proudly proclaim they are religious are irritating and idiotic. Get a clue about the nature of God other than what some ridiculous, outdated, biased, sexist, racist and spurious Book and its cheerleaders dictate. Meditate and feel your inner silence. Then you will truly be able to claim you are religious, but not while you are unthinkingly following someone or something simply because you think that will earn you marks in the Maker's "Book of Life." Many serial killers and mass murderers have also claimed to be very religious people. Obviously, this claim does not mark a good character. It is not an impressive thing to those who know true religion, which has no dogma, no doctrine, no anthropomorphic god, no saviors and no priests, but simply benevolence, divine love and cosmic consciousness.
The Gospel According to Acharya Sby www.truthbeknown.com ]
