Corrupted religion by cultural co-optation
Foreword
As a reminder: Biblically, one of the Torah scribes did their best to warn 'posterity' of the inherent corrupted unreliability of we beings in
Job 1:4-11 King James Version
4 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.. 5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually..
6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. 7 And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou?
Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
8 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
9 Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? 10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. 11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face
The liberating freedom of religion’s spirituality is caged by the overlay of cultural theologies, whether Christianity, Buddhist, Hindu, Tao, Judaism, or Islam. I will use Christianity as the template for the ubiquitous flaws and fallacies also in the other religions
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I perceive Christianity as a measure to accept the inherent socially constructed roles of flawed and fallible people by a contrived redemptive gesture and posturing for one’s own sake, and also the enabling of indulgences for a false peace of tranquility with others-Ala 'unconditional love'. On top of that, the inserting of temporally-oriented, provincial social traditions as a faithful observance of the authorized religious doctrines.
Those doctrines and practices undermine and confine the individual conscience of conscientious thoughts and expressions. With that, the relative and absolute relationship for a marker of spirituality or their own spiritual expression is prostituted and bastardized for accommodating, adapting, and coping with the day-to-day cognitive field constructed by the contemporaneous cultural dynamics.
Without liberation of conscience, there is only license, and that’s NOT freedom. Religions control people by domesticating them to the carrot and stick existential extortion of either secular sanctions or the blessing/damning of their carnal or ‘after-life’ of being. Religion, an imposed rhetorical exoskeleton than a spiritual experience of self-insight by individual discovery, is an insidious degeneration of human ethics, morality, and any claim of an altruistic spirituality. In a perversely ironic way, religion is as an organized system corrupts intentions to delusional rationales of illusions.
The aggressive excesses demonstrated by the aforementioned
religions are exhibits of the provincial cultural overlays manifesting themselves on groups and individuals proclaiming a
faux self-righteousness as the entitlement for the perverse
prerogative taken by them. With that spirituality is enveloped
in the ambiguity of provincial moral relativism: lost in the clouds
of temporality by the inherent frailties and fallibilities religion
was created from being a divine image.
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