Ideology

‘Religion is the opiate of the masses’:

I have a relationship with Christ, but I feel organized religion is a tear duct away from the eye. The sight is askew somewhere, but I just can’t figure it out. Are we as a people destined to create taxonomies, and hierarchies, even within, or is it a natural premise to subjugate when you have Christ in your life. This subjugation starts at an early age and begins to take shape as we unfurl our bottom lip and create our own speech. The voices that speak up are minimized and the voices that speak down claim that they have a divine awakening. Yes, there are gifted speakers everywhere, and with time and patience you can master reading the bible; but, does that mean they are divine? What is divinity? What is religion? Why does it cause so much strife around the world? It’s a double edged sword that brings love and hate, a yin and yang, a sort of either/or logical fallacy. It provides a rationale for love, peace, and prosperity when applied correctly I.e. the ability to bow down to a higher power, and respect and love your neighbour. But, what is the alternative? To be atheistic, does that mean that these people cannot ultimately bow down to a higher power or respect their neighbour? Are they just ahead of the curve? Is religion merely an antiquated form of power and control that subjugates people to the power over approach? Does it minimize the experience of life? I’m not sure, I’ve lived an atheistic and a theistic life, both marred with the teachings of the day at my respective level of education. Yes, I bring education into this conversation because you begin to see the world in the various shades of grey when you begin to nuance your life with an educational experience. Then you dash your life with further salt and pepper when you add your life lived experience. What does this all mean? Is it just a rant? An opiate subdues, intoxicates, and creates a dependence on the substance. Everything in society was created by man. Yes, ultimately, there were 66 books in the old and New Testament. When the Roman’s executed Jesus after performing miracles and claiming to be the son of god. There was a literal interpretation from the devout followers/disciples with over 60,000 cross references that make up the translation. Is this just dumb luck? How do you have so many followers of the religion yet be blinded by the fact that the people of the religion make up the problems and the solutions. Discourse and conflict will arise simply because there are so many people, so many religions, with different sects and branches, how can we not have conflict? Just because we’ve evolved to be the dominant species on this earth, it doesn’t mean we have all of the answers. Yes, science has progressed at an expedited rate, same with technology. But, with the future of our own earth in peril because of what we have done to it, where do we begin to see that we are the problem as well as the solution. How do we undue all of the negative and further propel the good? I think we not need understand what Karl Marx is trying to say, but understand it from the context that he is speaking it from. The world is filled with Marxists now, because the end of capitalism is near, the people are beginning to understand their worth. If the people band together then they have proven to bring down the corruption that plagues society. The one problem is, as we begin to war amongst ourselves, we begin to use another’s narrative —- Marxist ideology is inherently communist. We need to create our own ideology that brings the best of both worlds together, because ultimately there is matter and anti-matter. It’s an either/or logical fallacy type of world. The collapse of a civilization starts with an idea, then it gets fire, and then, before you know it an inferno begins. I believe we are at the precipice of this inferno, what does it take to fan the flames?