Asking this question when I was about 21 years old started me down a path that eventually led me to Cultural Anthropology. Why?
Because I saw the hypocrisy in how the religion I was raised in was actually practiced and so I left. But, then I didn't know that other religions were as hypocritical as the one I had been raised in.
What occurred to me at the time is that when religion ask inhuman things of people that people in those religions have no choice but to become hypocritical in their lives in order to stay in that religion.
So, the more unrealistic a religion tends to be the more hypocritical the adherents to that religion tend to be. It's almost without fail worldwide.
So, since Religion is the basis of all cultures or they have philosophies that sometimes take the place of religion somewhat, then whenever too much is asked of people in that religion or philosophy the people in that religion or philosophy always say one thing but do another in order to survive this.
And this is what led me to Cultural Anthropology by the time I was 22 studying at Palomar College in San Diego County. And then I realized that studying to become a psychologist was a way of surviving the conditioning that I had received growing up in my family's religion.
But what gave me peace was to realize that all religious people who go to church tend to be hypocritical because it isn't possible to be otherwise when unrealistic things are asked of them.
and this led me to Cultural Anthropology to better understand this and this led me to Psychology to better survive all this myself and to re-parent myself so that I could survive what had happened to me. And I thought at the time that I also could help others driven crazy in their lives by their religions enough to self destruct either directly or indirectly.
Because more people kill themselves because of their religions than for any other reason worldwide. So, this is a worldwide problem caused by how religions and churches practice their religions worldwide.
So, "How do you survive your religious conditioning without self destructing?"
This was the question I have for ALL Mankind!
One of my solutions was to become Spiritual but not Religious.
Because one can still have God and Jesus and Angels in their lives without going to church and be told things that make people kill themselves directly or indirectly.
So, becoming spiritual but not religious is one way to survive your religion you were raised in worldwide.
Also, one tends to have more integrity being honest with oneself and God in this way too.
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- Ethical Frameworks:Most promote universal values like love, compassion, justice, honesty, and the Golden Rule (treating others as you'd want to be treated).
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