MENTAL BONDAGE in the name of God
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A lady physician from Canada wrote to me and said, "If we aim to understand our creator we are bound to commit error of personification". I cannot agree with her more. And, in addition - 'the error is aggravated when we try to find the answer from organised religion'.
With all that humans have been taught by their religions - by their priests and their rabbis and their mullahs and their monks - how is it that, in the collective experience of a huge portion of humanity, it has not done any good?
Collectively, humans - in spite of their religious beliefs, are unceasingly and increasingly violent with their own kind. They did very little in addressing oppression, prejudice, gender discrimination, child abuse, denying civil rights, exploitation, and injustice in their surroundings. Ignoring these sufferings is as much a form of violence as inducing it.
We need to pay attention to the fact that our aspiration for an orderly way of life is dying. We need to notice what the world has gone through, and what it has tried to give us, and we need to wake up to see what we, our parents and our neighbours are doing, collectively and individually.
How much more will mankind allow themselves to endure before they begin looking for the underlying reason that the world is the way it is? Those who say that they believe God is powerful enough to be the cure for the world's ill, have themselves failed to see that an inaccurate belief could be more powerful to be the real cause.
Let me get to the heart of the matter forthrightly devoid of rhetoric. The majority of people on earth regardless of their standing are slaves to earthly gods in the name of religion consciously or not.
For example, people who enslave their mind who thought they knew what God wants called themselves the Chosen People hanged men and women in town squares, and burned others on the stake, holding up the Good Book and declaring them witches. They are the same people who passed laws making it illegal for humans of differing races to marry.
Approximately 1.5 billion people have shackled their mind to a bigoted idea that God needs their worship, animal sacrifice, ritual prayer, fasting, and homage to a rock hunk that symbolises Gods Glory. Their earthly gods told armies of Muslims to send marauders far and wide to kill and conquer every land and culture and bring it under the Nation of Islam.
Almost two billion people are in bondage to the idea that suffering is to be used by them to better themselves, and to purify their souls. One whole religion is built upon this belief, asserting that all beings have been saved by the suffering of one being, who died for the sins of the rest.
After Abraham, a man called Moses committed himself to the Ten Commandments, a providence that could lead to an orderly way of life assuring peacefulness. Without his knowledge, his enemies wrote the Talmud, the Jews see as God's revelation. It became the tenets of Judaism, a religion unknown to him.
Jesus went to the same community calling them to restore the original law - and for that - the Talmudic rabbis decreed that he was guilty of blasphemy and ordered him to be crucified. A simple question comes to mind. Did he die because he sinned against the rabbis - or for the sins of the rest? The answer traumatises every dogmatic mind - including that of United States President. Nevertheless, a new religion was created after him. Like Moses, Jesus never knew there would be a religion called 'Christianity'.
Out of mercy the Creator sanctioned the same providence to an Arab confirming previous scriptures, but his own people created a new religion and packed it with Arab myth and tribal cults. Like Moses and Jesus, Muhammad had no idea about any religion called Islam. This kind of news is obnoxious to the bigoted minds, including that of armed forces or police generals, Supreme Court judges, or scientists. Unfortunately, that is the truth.
Organised religion creates a system of one direction of power to control. Pharaoh enslaved people with religion. Today, Kings and Queens, Presidents and Prime Ministers and their officials knowingly or unknowingly are slaves of Pharaohs in different garbs of rabbis, priests, monks, and mullahs. Thus, Pharaoh's artifice is here to reign - unless we start to think!
So far, no organised religion has provided mankind with effective guidance in how to live as one nation, in peace and harmony. They have created dissent, disorder, and their doctrines are taking us from the light of life to the deepest abyss. People now live in mass hypnotism and mental bondage. Have we lost the courage to take the challenge to unload the burdens and remove the chains that binds us?
This book presents a comprehensive study of one of the three main religions from its original scriptural text. It exposes the manner of how the enemies of a prophet distorted the 'words' to create a religion of 'Islam' as we know and see it today. Like Judaism and Christianity, the religionists have invented the Arab religion. Obviously, this research shocks the Muslims around the world, yet it sovereigns the bondage of the critical minds among them it is a revelation to humanity.
http//www.writewords.org.uk/archive/10466.asp
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One of the problems with that is, the author implies that the "proof is in the pudding" outlook (i.e. look around us) shows us how religion has failed. Whilst this outlook is correct on the main part, it fails when we are talking large parts of humanity, particularly the whole world like the author implies.
No matter how amazing a system is shown to the world, the majority will not comply. That is why the test, i.e. this life, has absolutely nothing to do with others, its all about you and The God.
Funnily enough, I came to a 'moment of clarity/realisation' on this very aspect a few weeks ago. It sounds obvious I know, but it never hit me like it did that day. I'm not really sure why. When I got home, I went to my room, got a pen and paper, and stuck a personal message to myself on my wall. It reads it's time.
I dont intend to take it off anytime soon.
Wakas
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SaLaM JM
Such is the nature of humans. Imams and priests preaching the good book while abusing lill boys and girls. As far as organised religion go, even tho that is not how God intended it to be, it hasnt done much good. Good people are good people and bad people are bad people. As God puts it quite nicely
And they only divided after the knowledge had come to them, due to resentment among themselves. And had it not been for a predetermined decision from your Lord, they would have been judged immediately. Indeed, those who inherited the scripture after them are full of doubts.
Im giving this verse because this is a perfect example as it can be applied to all religions and to a single religion with many sects.
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No matter how amazing a system is shown to the world, the majority will not comply.
You mean your amazing system is Quranic Utopia?
Any system that is imposed will fail, just like communism failed.Any system that is borne out of human experiences like democracy will have far greater sucess and majority will gravitate towards that system sooner or later.
That is why the test, i.e. this life, has absolutely nothing to do with others, its all about you and The God.
This life has nothing to do with others? How selfish is this outlook. How selfish is this understanding?
Perhaps this life is about living with others. Perhaps that is the challenge? Perhaps the test is to see if we can live peacefully with others?
Contact with others makes us feel heat, light and cold
but these are fleetings we learn to endure
For when we have conquered life's trivialities
then we are fit for life's immortality... -
peace,
You mean your amazing system is Quranic Utopia?
To see some web definitions of 'assumption' please click here.
Wakas
It was a question to you with a question mark like this "?"
Answer the question if you feel like. If not don't matter..Regards,
