The Relious Belief and its shortcomings

 

Subject: Religious Belief and it’s shortcomings





Is religious belief nothing more than a comfort blanket to human beings, invented to ward off the fear of the shadow on the cave wall, or was it a socialising instrument created by people to co-opt others into leading a way of life which could be gainfully used by society at large.

The problem with secular thought is its individuality.  Each person has their own agenda and in this individuality there is no common binding agent to compare with religion.

From smoke and mirror storytelling to the soothing parables, there is also the sowing of fear in equal proportion to love alongside the blinding light revelation and the mystical creation of god and his prophetic teaching, told by people who subsequently took on the mantle of a saint.

People are susceptible to fraud in all kinds of way. Examples are the people who gather around Donald Trump, to the telephone call from someone purporting to be from your bank encouraging the transfer of money and forever eroding the trust in institutions at large and you are encouraged from having rational thought into a belief system in which you are convinced only you will gain. It’s mankind’s Achilles Foot, their weakness to envisage gain as a principle to live by.

Religion, at its root, also has reward as its motive.  Imagine its success if  debauchery were its modus operandi but instead, we are subjected to abstinence in all but faith.

There’s only room for a quick fix adrenaline rush of prophesy, there are no pleasantries, only the ‘surety of being told’.

Mankind’s obsession with knowing and understanding has many benefits but in the sphere of death it has no answers only the supernatural rules, from ghosts to the image of an old man in the sky defining how our lives should be lived. It’s a comedy and like the film Ghost Busters, it depends on a hero’s rescue.

We are nothing more than a momentary blip, a footprint in the sand waiting to be swept away by the next wave. Our passing is located only in the mind of others who themselves are but a temporary abstract. Like the ant or a worm, we fulfil no great purpose but have evolved to think we do. Perhaps even the worm, if asked would profess some use, some reason for having existed and it’s at the moment of death, when we transform from the known to the unknown that reasoning gives way to the emergence of gods and mythical creatures to answer that question, why do we exist.

But does there have to be a purpose, can’t it be evolutionary chance, not provenance. The richness of our experience on earth is enough to fill many volumes without seeking meaning or continuance in an after-life. The religious thought that life is a ledger of good and bad is chilling enough and that one day there will there will be reckoning with punishment metered out, this can only be the thought of a sadist.

We now have the comfort of having discovered Black Holes, the very antithesis to life after death and our clinging on in some form of how we picture ourself since in a Black Hole knowledge is lost completely and our reasoning has no purpose once inside. It’s a principle of physics, that matter can only be exchanged into something else and not eradicated but the situation within the Black Hole is unique since the process of a Black Hole is the absorption of mass in all its forms and render it to nothing. This means everything is reduced to only random effect and that the laws of physics disintegrate. Where does this leave our mind and the information it contains. It’s certainly not the territory of the psychic or the bone thrower.

The phenomenon of the Black Hole speaks of another destiny and not the fantasy world of drifting around in a universal graveyard.