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Dr. John's Blog |
thoughts on politics, religion and everyday life by Arizona's primary New Age spokesman |
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July 28, 2008 |
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Maybe you have already come to this conclusion, but religion has nothing
to do with God or spirituality.
It is a social organization.
As a social organization, Western religion does a very good job.
As a spiritual organization it does a terrible job.
Western religion helps the needy, provides a social consciousness
and, as Karl Marx said, “is the opiate of the masses.”
By opiate, Marx did not mean something low and illegal, but
rather he was referring to opium’s pain-killing properties.
Thus, he was saying that religion, rather than correcting the
social situation, made it possible for the masses to endure it.
And that’s what Western religion does today. It supports the
establishment and helps the masses to endure the pain of our current
social madness.
Don’t we need a religion that will point out the insanity of our
social order and work to correct it?
I don’t know of any such churches, do you?
Oh, sure, many churches address poverty and illness, but the only
solution they offer is welfare.
We’ve had welfare for 75 years and it doesn’t work. But
religion does not offer a solution.
The job of Western religion is to SUPPORT the current
establishment, not suggest an alternative.
The early Christian religion got their members to band together and form
communes in which they shared the labor and the wealth. Communes can
work.
But sharing the labor and wealth, when run by government, NEVER WORKS.
It has to be voluntary and cooperative.
Even religion is often compulsory—do what I say or God will punish
you. With
religion supporting the establishment, there are no restraints on
government. Everyone wants to be on a winning team and government is
winning, so everyone wants a piece of the action. Thus government grows
and grows and the costs of running the country skyrocket. All
this is made possible by Western religion– a social organization that
is not doing everything it can for society.
Give a man a fish and eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish, and he
eats the rest of his life. (old saying)
Western religion only teaches us how to get a fish from the government.
It does not teach us how it works or how to fix it or create a
new one. (Well, they do teach us the high-flying principles of how it is
supposed to work, but they do not teach us how and why it is failing, or
how to fix it) When
it comes to spirituality, religion lets us down again.
Jesus, Buddha and other masters set a standard for us to follow.
But it was too inconvenient to follow their exact steps. The
religions established in the names of these masters did not understand
the spiritual principles their masters taught.
“We cannot do what our masters have told us to,” they say. “So we
can only worship them and hope that they will accept our adoration
instead of our actions.”
The Western religions are run by people who understand politics but not
paradise, hate but not heaven, catholic but not karma, and relics but
not reincarnation. They
speak of the love of God and, in the same breath they speak of God’s
vengeance and the punishment of God.
They tell us that God created sex and that it is a wonderful thing. At
the same time when they say “sin” we all know they mean “sex.”
They say that we should be as innocent as little children, but they
define innocence as being sexless, not non-judgmental.
And so they continue, revealing their total ignorance of what
spirituality it, being totally wrapped up in material things– the
things of the physical world.
A social organization should be involved in the things of this world,
but shouldn’t a spiritual organization be concerned with the things of
spirit?
I invite you to come on down to our services Sunday at 1030 am and ask
us about spirituality.
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