It’s taken me way too long to get going on this for
some reason but I think I’ve finally asked myself enough questions to get
something to start with. A few of these questions being; why is there
religion? Was there one true faith that
started it all and everyone else just liked the idea and ran off with something
of their own? Being pretty certain that not all religions can be true, means
that a few have to be false. So with a socially constructed religion, what
would be the motive for creating it? Power, control, money, even sex are simple
things that people desire and scheme to gain. When you think of religion’s that
revolve around the gain of these things plain and simple you think of cults;
The Manson Family, Branch Davidians, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints, etc. It’s counter intuitive to have a religion covet such
impurities but people fall for it every day. Many centuries ago in the catholic
faith a person could buy indulgencies to avail their loved ones from purgatory;
“a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are
expiating their sins before going to heaven.” Religion’s kind of a messed up thing
when you look at all of it together. There’s this band I like but haven’t listened
to in a while that serendipitously shuffled its way into my headphones the day
our class was talking about religion that I now have to share with you guys but
it encompasses and flaunts how embarrassing people can be.
In regard to inequality I think the song highlights
well how people always want to stand over the other and take advantage of any
situation they can. Now all religion isn’t bad but it’s just the junk that
people create of it that makes it sick.
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