Quote Originally Posted by maryjanemama
Res, aren't you only 35 or 36? You're killing me with this old man stuff!


And when religion starts getting in the way of ppl's person freedom.
hehehe...I'm older than I am
Comes from having my eyes opened from an early age...

Now then, religion....

Religion is a set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader. If we adopt the same mentality to religion as we did for the comfy slippers scenario, we can appreciate the familiarity and dependency that faith brings forth.

The diversity of religion exists because of the indecision to make a commitment to any one-belief structure. The reason being for this is due to the discrepancies found within religion, and a sense of awareness that not all is right with its teachings. Independent thought demonstrates the flaws that contradict our conditioning, resulting in indecisive action, when finding the right faith.

Religious beliefs help fill the void of our sentient essence, enabling us to accept that we will live on in spirit when we leave this world behind. Sentience, being nothing more than our own consciousness, an awareness of oneself, has allowed us to evolve and believe we are superior to others that share this planet with us.

Our own egotistical actions created religion to satiate certain aspects of that conscious essence, leading us to believe that sentience allows us a superior position upon this planet.

We find ourselves falsely conditioned into believing that we should follow the religious teachings of numerous belief structures, with a view to obtaining some kind of immortality.

Recognition of self-awareness has prompted us to question its existence, with many of those questions remaining unanswered, and leaving us to fill in the gaps as we go along. Religion is born to satiate these thoughts, as we struggle to understand sentience.

Self-awareness, often misconstrued has a Divine influence in our lives, finds ourselves recognising sentient essence and acknowledge it in such a way that we actually delude ourselves into thinking God is watching over us.

We attempt to analyse this awareness and satiate it with whatever answers that should present themselves and remain in ignorance about our own purpose. Sentience needs to be defined within its own merits and not disguised by ignorance or misguided thought.

When identifying self-awareness, removing any religious connotations from the onset would aid in a more open-minded approach while addressing this issue. We are then able to recognise our own evolutional development and identify the purpose of sentience.

Due to a lack of acceptable answers, the Divine influence, now called upon, fills the gap where those questions remain confusing or unexplainable. We in turn allow religion to disguise a gift of sentience because we cannot accept our own evolutional progress.

Sentience often confused with immortality, allows religion to fill in the missing pieces. We identify how we compensate the lack of understanding about our own evolutional development and replace it with a belief structure, which allows the knowledge of sentient existence to become acceptable and easily digestible. After all, self-awareness clearly demonstrates our superior role in the scheme of things.

The influence of religion offers a doorway to those many unanswered questions that we have about our own existence, allowing room for acceptance when addressing sentience and rewarding it with promises of immortality, should we choose a religious following. Firm belief in God can aid in the search for a more rewarding life and offers a sense of purpose, but if that purpose is false, are we then misguided?

The recognition of sentience allows us to believe we have a greater purpose upon this planet, when in fact it is nothing more than the next step in our evolution. Yet our attitudes cannot accept such and we go on to demonstrate false belief in God/s, to compensate the lack of acceptable answers we have about our sentient awareness.

Sentient recognition demonstrates self-awareness, a conscious familiarity that endeavours to provoke self-purpose, individuality and evolution. Independence is a result of this recognition and a good example of how we can utilise this knowledge for the greater good, enabling the true purpose of sentience to become defined and allowing self-understanding to be evident.

The religious connotations in our lives allow us to satiate an otherwise confusing aspect of our existence, clearly defining the importance of purpose and the lack of information to make sense of it. We compensate for that lack of information by incorporating religion and adhering to its teachings, with the hope that some knowledgeable understanding about our existence will become clear in doing so.


Damn, my fingers hurt