The problem with Cults and religions in general

 

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1. I was watching the above episode regarding Leah Remini leaving Scientology which she had been with since she was 8 years old.

   I found this interesting because I left my own religious cult I had been raised in from birth at age 21 in 1969.

When you are raised in a religion (and it doesn't have to be a cult) and many of your relatives are in it this can cause your death as it almost did me when I left  at the age of 21. When you are shunned and if you are under about 30 to 35 you might not have the will and intestinal fortitude to chart your own course and life after that because you have been so brainwashed by whatever religion it is (cult or not). So, you have to find some way forward. It isn't easy especially if you have relatives and friends still in this religion or cult. But, you have to find a way to stay alive.

My wife says I'm one of the emotionally and spiritually strongest people she has ever met in her life. I understand this because when I left I chose to completely rebuild myself into the person I am now. I chose to take the ideals I had learned in church and to apply the practical ones to become (everything that I could be). Because churches are idealistic and aren't at all ever what you think they are.

It's like having a bunch of actors pretending to be something they are not really. It all sounds pretty good but what I find is you can't really organize goodness in people. It either manifests spontaneously or it doesn't manifest at all.

So, churches of necessity and practicality have to be mostly phoney in nature. People want to be perfect all the time but it isn't true, especially organized perfection.

Organized perfection doesn't really exist. Actors might portray perfection but it is a dream. So, I find perfection is always from the heart and spontaneous. So, you really cannot expect to find it in actuality in anything organized ever. All you wind up with is usually some kind of farce.

If you watch the above program be sure to realize that this person was raised from 8 years old in this religion and most of her family and friends were in this religion too. And it took her all these years to decide to break away. I admire her bravery to do this because it isn't easy ever to do something like this.

But, sometimes in order to keep your self respect and to protect your children and spouses and relatives from harm you have to do what is right no matter what the consequences are.

IN my 20s I thought about starting my own religion and realized that religions are obsolete for humans because I now believe they do more harm than good to people at this point in their evolution. I think it's great for people to have a personal relationship with God or Buddha or Nature or the primordial spirit that created us all. But, I think that for the most part religions are obsolete and now do more individual and group harm than anything else at this point.

This is my view after everything I went through in my life. However, you are entitled to your own opinion from your own experiences.

By God's Grace.



It sort of like Disneyland. You can go to Disneyland and it can bring tears to your eyes but you know it is mostly all acting and stages and terra forming. But, that is much more real in some ways than any church can be. This is something to think about.