(June 19, 2011 at 9:52 pm)Epimethean Wrote: Religion isn't a search for truth: It is the satisfaction with the truth being out of reach and the creation of a smoke and mirror show to keep the oppressed reproducing.
You seem to be describing secularized religion the function of which is societal. This thread is about the essence of religion the purpose of which is to aid in "awakening." That is why I quoted Simone in the OP.
Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong.
- Simone Weil, Faiths of Meditation; Contemplation of the divine
the Simone Weil Reader, edited by George A. Panichas (David McKay Co. NY 1977) p 417
Can a believer and non believer be open to the possibility that their supernatural part is yet to be awakened?
Can you be open to the idea that your concept of religion is not the same as the conscious intent of a spiritual teaching that ends up devolving into society, becoming secularized, and losing its awakening purpose?
