Religion for Idiots

In short, for lazy *

(j) The erstwhile Church, the erstwhile religion and the erstwhile God replaced the media in our regular lives. From them we draw moral and another patterns essential for functioning in a "modern" society. alternatively of a sermon – talk-show, alternatively of an altar – TV. alternatively of divine commandments, “do what you want”. Everything that these “modern” do not realize is simply a fresh religion with all its attributes like God, church, priests. And they, reasoning they were unbelievers, became her ignorant followers.

Paraphrased by the well-known advertising slogan “not for idiots” I would like to draw attention to the level on which we are graced with the splendors of fresh speech and thought. And what this is.

Modern, conscious, free from the influence of religion

Many of us are happy to attach specified labels, full convinced that this is the case. Why are we convinced of this, and who reassures us? Let us effort to answer this question ourselves.

I am not here to rise the question of the existence or the existence of God. I'm more curious in stating the function that TA ISTOTA plays in our lives, which we attribute to so many extraordinary qualities. And, have we truly come this far to find that we are free from this phenomenon?

Already in the dawn of history, our protoplasmists painted their images and images of their deities on the walls of caves. all culture in all corner of the planet in a period that we have come to know so far has left or left behind its ideas of the force that can, is omnipresent and protects (should protect) its followers. Sometimes (how frequently the believers of certain religions were persuaded by their priests) only those who offered it a appropriate sacrifice.

How's that for today? Exactly. We consider ourselves conscious, knowing more and better than others, and surely more and better than those of the past. Is that truly so? I'm tempted to deny it and even effort to prove it.

Let's go back to the past. Is the fact that there was a God (gods) in all civilization not so meaningful that it allows us to draw any conclusion about what we are? What brings this constant request to find something higher, something special? Something that will fill us with these spheres that we cannot comprehend with our mind. Something that will be a cure for all evil. Isn't this request inseparable from our human nature? Of course it is. Absolutely.

With the awareness of this ignorance that we have, these shortcomings in skills and capabilities, it is good and convenient to know that there is individual who knows better, can and watches over us. This results in our own risk-taking and incompatibility-like decision-making. A 1000 times easier to live without dilemmas; I am allowed or not, I should or better not. We have a list of moral determinants and indications that should dispel our doubts.

To a lesser extent, the request for leaders in society can besides be explained. We connect to different “voicers of absolute truths” or “doctors of all diseases” due to the fact that it is the easiest. And if we fail, we have an immediate explanation for our bad decision. “They” (they) are guilty. They promised and didn't keep their word. They promised and lied.

That certain things, utilizing simple logic, are predictable, eludes our attention. Wishing takes precedence over reason. due to the fact that if individual else is responsible, you can dream.

Let's get back to the subject. So we, specified modern ones, who yet discovered the phenomenon of pedophilia and homosexuality in the Church, can shout out loud that all this is simply a sick anachronism. God is for the mediocre and the stupid. And all religion has only 1 goal. usage it. usage it with manipulation, fraud. Pull as much as you can into those fat bellies.

The fact that spiritual wars existed and existed is nothing new. But 1 of them, most crucial in effect, is not noticed today. Even though it happens under our noses and we frequently participate unconsciously.

The eternal request for a “Higher Power” in our lives remains. This mechanics is invariable. Only the form has changed.

And so all those highly convinced who think that they are free from the "foreign influences" of gods and idols do not announcement what swamp they have fallen into.

They do not announcement that they are not even passive believers of the “newest and most powerful” religion, but of the most active “coworkers”. This “religion” is so comprehensive and omnipresent, and so our “souls” have mastered us that even for a minute we will not dare to think that it is different than the “apostles.”

Let me get to the bottom of this. For centuries, but inactive decades ago in our cultural circles, the priest decided what was moral and what was not. He besides told us from the pulpit what is good and what is bad, how we should dress up going to church and for another occasions. In distant lands, the priests of their denominations did so. religion served to find moral patterns but besides determined economical and political models. She frequently decided on who to wage war with and why. She pointed out who the sinner was and who the hero was. Who is just and who is wrong.

Who has taken over this function today, and with what effect on society?
Who sets our moral patterns today?
Who affects social sentiment?
After all, who decides what this alleged hatred speech is?
We have not even noticed that we have a fresh god, a fresh religion, fresh priests. We actually know that a long time ago, but have we dared to admit it?

And so the fresh “Church” became MEDIA.

Okay, now that the media is about to be this church, who or what is this fresh god? For it is easy to know who performs the function of priests. The dilemma of God and religion remains.

God in this case is only a form of energy. The focus of a group of people with power, media and primarily common goals and interests.

And here there is no request for phenomena, so eagerly cited by supporters of various conspiracy theories, that these people meet to agree against humanity. They don't gotta meet. All it takes is this tremendous energy, this desire to have them all together. This is clear adequate for their employees (priests) to practically not even request circumstantial directives.

Now let us go to the essence of this religion. And this is peculiarly crucial to all of us. Based on human instincts, on our qualities to which we are most frequently ashamed, a doctrine was built, which seemingly makes us "free." By liberating in us feelings of envy, desire, hatred, revenge, we were appealed to precisely the qualities that the religions of the past condemned most. Unfortunately, these are besides the most human qualities and "really" in this fresh religion we do not gotta feel remorse for doing evil. We managed to free ourselves from the rigid church rules. By knocking on our instincts, emotions or even hormonal economy, societies (this affects most countries) were created stupid, reacting to primitive, sent signals towards them, incapable to think independently, let alone critical.

Again, he triumphs “nothing human is unknown to me.” But this time it's not about the brighter side of us.

The talk shows took over. There we talk more or little openly about what we can think and say and what can't. All the statements of “experts” and “authorities” of morals as well as the statistic given to us are utilized to convince us that what we “think” is the only right truth. This “we” have a monopoly on it. And if otherwise, see the first point. Advertisements and broadcasts of the type; from the life of disco polo stars, or what the footballer of the best German squad rides, show us the directions of our dreams. Cooking stories give examples of furniture,ware and what we should eat. Others decide what to wear in the coming season. And we don't even announcement what patterns are being sold to us by subliminals. Under the appearance of worldhood, we get anti-family models, anti-national models. The roots of our tradition are brutally torn out.

And that makes us think that we all know. And we really know better. reasoning that we truly made it all up. Without absolutely anyone's help. Not with media. Pathetic.

I don't want to look like a malcontent. And in this process, I see the good side. Do we truly request the Church as we know it? After all, many believe that it is only the habitat of homosexuals and paedophiles. Let's halt paying them for all we're paying now. Let's pay more for the tv subscription. It'll be easier. We'll save these trips to church. Time and effort. It doesn't make sense. We've had altars at home for a long time. We're not just full aware of it. any people hang, even taking the full wall. We just request to buy a kneecap or possibly a rug. 1 on which you can kneel but besides in case of a change in the direction of the wind and put your forehead into it. And if we add another PLN 5 to the subscription, we might as well let our sins go.

* (published for the first time in 2019 on NISS portal)