If
you were so unaware I beg to inform you that the death of religion is most
underway among us. We being the future
of this planet and at minimum this America, which tends to be the most fearful
of intermixed nations is becoming less and less uniform by the day. The breaking of these bonds is probably frightful
to most of you as the assumptions of your parent’s life fissuring in your
adolescence has severed in ours. We
thank you for this despite our frequent confrontations in living rooms and
kitchens. We cannot take primary credit,
but we will assert a line of demarcation, which I am compelled to communicate
here.
The
three great monotheistic camps of this planet Judaism, Islam, and Christianity
are diminishing towards oblivion on Earth.
As they are surely only found on Earth in these iterations, but given
contemplation Quagnon, Bolarism, and Azhomnity are decayed just the same in
other worlds many revolutions around their suns ago. So in there are varied versions waiting to be
born and in full warring revelry on others.
The
evolution of mankind mandates the ending of religion to achieve the threshold
of ration to prevent at minimum our self-annihilation of our organism and the
planet we inhabit, and conversely to achieve the pinnacle of our scientific,
existential, and biological potential as a super-organism.
The
books, tomes, preachers, legal minutia, irrationality, and population control
in any form of religion is continuing to be spat-out in greater numbers of our
generation as the average level of existential ignorance dissipates with the
ascending growth curve of information technology. We see the histories of these temples froth with
money, blood, sexism, racism, persecution, hypocrisy, sadism, fear, inefficiency,
and most importantly a false tether to an exclusivity on morality which claims to
flow from the religion and not innate to each individual independent of
spiritual-ritualized contract.
This
exclusivity is then passed on to a defined salvation which is contingent on
this commercialized version of morality which includes subcomponents of
mandated worship and in turn tithing to perpetuate the beast. Therein the greatest fear of the religious hierarchies
is for the follower to see this morality as a universal good beholden in all
men and women. This is the grand fissure
our generation has had the benefit of time to digest in greater numbers.
Certainly
there are people who have made this universal assertion in one form of another
throughout human history and in many cases these people have been commensurately
persecuted for their defection of sorts.
Naming them given their number is to try to name the stars but for a
token effort: Voltaire, Spinoza, Hume, Clemons, Einstein, Hitchens, and Nietzsche.
The
danger has always been in the chaos of the gap.
What is man to do without an assertive overlord once he recognizes the totality
of potential freedom within himself without the culpability of an eternal reprisal
by a vicious counter-balance to the scale?
This is why Zeus, Rah, Odin, Mephistopheles, Jesus, Buddha, or Mohammed
were given such resumes. Beings want
assurance, an answer more than the openness.
We are like the proverbial sheep in a field in such ways. We are wary of the openness, watching,
looking, and waiting for the wolf. We call
for our shepherd who in this case, if given enough contemplation, is
responsible for and thus in league with the wolf.
It
is classic like the church and the drug cartel or the prostituting pimps making
contracts. One will reign free in the
streets hocking wears chastising the evils.
Without the obviousness of the evils to the people the donations and shepherd
would have no need to exist. So in there
is no better ally to a religion than the devil it purports to exist in place of
the universal morality within the self.
These two are conjoined bedfellows.
It
is better for the church to see the cocaine, the HIV, the lack of scientific prophylactic
knowledge in the populace. Seventeen to
a family was better for business. An enemy
to point at is better for business. The
heads of religious state know the hypocritical fallibility of their stores for
they are all but men staring at a naked emperor, not with invisible clothes,
but an invisible body, invisible voice, and invisible interaction. So as in the story, the weight of the truth must
be borne by the young. So generation X
is stamping this letter to you to read on the lamp post.
Know
that the religions of the world know they are dying. This is the cause of such revolutions in the
Arab Spring, the fervent grip of militant Islam of this planet fighting like a
drowning man having his head held under water not by attackers but by the
weight of his self-adorned crown. The crowns
are teetering in Rome, Mecca and Jerusalem.
The
world will potentially destroy itself fighting against our own existential
evolution for there is no greater will than a man who has been washed into
believing his choice in life is dictated by a deity or a pious calling. In this he is blinded from his morality of
self and is capable of the greatest evils certain he is in the camp of righteousness.
The
universal is severed as if such a deity would parcel his left hand from his
right. We become like two fists in this way. We can embrace or we can ram against each
other. The reverberations rattle up each
arm back to our interconnected chest.
Thus when we strike the other, we are striking our self. This is as it always has been whether we open
our eyes to this truth or not. There is
nothing that is done to the other that ultimately does not fold into the
self. All vengeance, including execution
by the state, folds into the collective.
Fear breeds like cockroaches in the damp darkness of such assumptions.
Yet
in this darkness we offer you hope. Have
hope in our capacity that in our freedoms of self-directed moralities we are
capable of more than any generation before us and it is still not too late for
you. Think of the waste of our collective
governments arguing the entangled fishing strings of religion. There have been so many lines each with its innumerable
barbarous hooks, flapping fish tails of every species. The secular and the non-secular have joined
forces in an attempt to lay the tethers straight upon the dock to live in peace. It is possible to have a mosque, a synagogue,
a church, and an abortion clinic on the same street, but it leads to such
wasted arguments and resources.
The
inefficiency like the sounds of two soon-to-be-divorced parents fighting
through the walls of our childhood bedroom rings out our assertion of how
non-essential these contracts are to our own sense of right and wrong. The nude-hypocrisy of the invisible emperors
leads us down paths of stripping down our iterations of why we choose to love
or fear.
So
we will raise our children down different traditions, not out of insult to you,
but in appreciation of what your struggle and those that came before you in our
infantile species upon this planet is approaching a greater threshold to
achieve. Will we breach this mark of
evolution in full within our lifetimes, probably not. Yet make most certain, the change is approaching.
If
you so happen to feel the nauseous swell of fear in your stomach, quell it with
this; a love beyond what has ever been held is possible when it comes with
absolute freedom, not associated with the grace of the greater-being external
to you, but in you as a piece of the greater-being.
We
are each so capable if we are willing to shed the cloaks of mandate, of
culpability, of reaction and not let the fear of every other individual’s
freedom make us into a monster. We transmogrify
into Tolkien’s Gollum holding our fear as our precious possession. We destroy ourselves in fear of what the
other may choose, even if we never actively destroy the other. The fear sits like Twain’s acid of anger doing
more damage to the vessel which holds it than its intended target.
For
this indirectly has been the theater of religion the whole time behind the
scenes. We may have been too clouded to
see it in this way, but in our clan, religious, racial and ethnic divisions in our
humanity, we have created false senses of secure segregation to keep others at
a distance. These distances are our
greatest vulnerability to our mutual choice of destruction.
We
are but men in a circle of pistols pointed at each other’s hearts with fingers
tense and readied. We make up rules of
statehood, sexual orientation, race, language, age, gender and in times of
evolution in each case we see how vastly flawed the creation or implementation
of any such division has been. Now we
must go one further and one further beyond that. We must un-divide our sense of spiritual identification.
For
whether we do this or not, we are this. We
can perish never having done such, as so many have, or we can elect our own
freedom of capability. The choice has
always been ours to unlearn the lessons of the emperors who raised us. We must each call out like the children in
our bodies and embrace the fear. Own it
and choose in every instance love over fear.
This
is the teetering crucible of Generation X and beyond. There will be much fervor. There will be hatred in the ranks at such
blasphemy, but look out at your children and their children and see the
de-conversion occurring en masse. It is
man’s greatest task to find God, pick up religion, put down religion and still
hold on to God.
God
has many names, iterations, but in searching myself I have found the volition
of morality inside my consciousness as the greatest tool to see that we are all
interconnected. This is God to me
existentially. Scientifically and
rationally the conceptual premise that something outside of physical existence and
time was the impetus to existence creates a logical platform for God. However this divide also disallows
interaction or decision making by any such God from occurring and at the same
point links all existence to a common font of inception.
As
a species it is better we have varied iterations of this internal explanation,
but in each we must contain the crux of our free will as an autonomous
construct beholden and affecting not any external paradigm, but ourselves.
Sincerely,
Peace,
Love, We are all interconnected.
Us
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