RE: Hi!
March 10, 2011 at 4:44 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2011 at 4:46 pm by Zenith.)
(March 10, 2011 at 12:20 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: Two questions:
1. Which religion are you a heretic of?
2. Which one or more established beliefs of a religious body do you reject and why?
1. I'm some kind of christian heretic.
2. I reject all organized religions. That's what being a heretic actually means, I suppose.
Why I reject organized religions: All force their beliefs on their subjects: you either believe all what they say, or you're not one of them, there is no middle way. All have written beliefs that must be blindly obeyed and unspoken beliefs and rules that must be kept. If you don't, you're regarded as a heretic, no matter how odd they are, and that they are wrong. And organized religion implicitly asks blindly trusting man and not thinking with your own head (which is somewhat funny, because both are condemned in the bible). And it is interesting that if you show them that they do and believe against their own bible's teachings, no one cares, and you're regarded as a 'heretic', even if they can't prove you wrong. And this shows clearly how they are thirsty of whatever their preachers/priests say, regarding their words as absolute truth and divine, while no one cares how it is actually written in his own bible. Another funny thing is how "the official religions" have perverted the words' meanings, that even now are understood badly by all (or 99%+) people. Among these words are "church", "saint", "angel", "demon", "priest", "bishop", "deacon", etc.
Anyway, no organized religion = no religious authority = freedom.
Interestingly, in the early years of christianity, it was not organized (as it is now), and it could have not, because it was a minority not accepted by the society. And that also means that there was no religious authority. But, as it 'evolved' it became a political system that forced into its corruption and idiotic teachings all people and persecuted (later, even killed) anyone who did not agree with what the leaders said, imagined or invented.
And now, religion = politics: you have political parties (denominations) that fight each other to receive more adherents to their party; no one cares about who is right and who is wrong, but hold on to their religious party (as supporters of political parties hold on to their political parties no matter what), fighting the other parties; the religious parties struggle to convince people that only this party (religious institution) can give people happiness and fulfill all their needs (as political parties do); you have religious leaders as you have political leaders, etc.