Dust Palaeolagus
It recently dawned on me, surprisingly, that the greatly established and worldly popular religions of today are many centuries old. I was sort of in awe of the fact that so great a nuisance could not only survive these thousands of years but, amazingly, that it has dilated in nearly every spectrum. The majority of the world today is associated with three religions in all that have become more organized and wealthy than ever before. What saddens me is how religion is unaffected by the vast improvement of society, the explosion of scientific inquiry, and, consequently, the massive evidence brought against the foundations of religious ideology and implementation of it into social affairs. No other unnecessary and viciously brutal aspect of that time has, or could have been imagined to, still exist today. Nietzsche wrote in Ecce Homo that he finds it necessary to wash his hands after coming into contact with religious people, and now I can see why – they attest to a rotted tome of ignorance that was destined to be extinct long ago. It is a corpse of a murderous thug that has too strong a resilience to the betterment of mankind.
It seems to me that religion is sort of like the living dead, but with stupid rules and the strange tendency to pray. Religion has opposed most scientific discoveries and has been consistently trying to get us to stop using common sense. Religious people are usually found in groups, and almost always saying the same thing as everyone else around them. This is the reason I have little hope in resolving this discord: zombies are fucking hard to get rid of. They go around killing real people. And, apparently, an infestation of the mindless can go on for thousands of years with no end in sight. This is serious because they target the only tool we have against them – our brain. I like my brain, I try to use it often and I advise that you do the same. Maybe, one day we’ll figure out a way to save humanity from this virus.
May 8th, 2008 at 9:40 AM
You’re right. Religion used to make sense years and years ago. It was meant to provide people with answers to the most basic questions of life. However, we have progressed in so many ways that religion is no longer necessary. Yet millions of people continue to hang on to old practices. I guess it just makes them feel good to know that they can fall back on something in case things go horribly awry.