MY TAKE ON
RELIGION
In our present state, slaves as we are to myriad superstitions, misconceptions,
suppositions, prejudices, formulaic modes of thinking, rote and routine
behaviors etc., and having had our childlike sense of wonder and fancy beaten
out of us when we were still small and tender; when we encounter holy Texts we
react in one of two ways:
We:
1) Reject out-of-hand that which we
have read, believing that we have comprehended that which we have read.
2) Accept what we read, believing that
we have comprehended that which we have read, embrace what we think the
teachings are and go about living according to our misconceptions. In other words, we worship an hallucination.
Both of these, seemingly diametrically opposed, reactions have one thing
in common: In both cases we do not realize that filled as we are with memes,
misconceptions, propaganda and all sorts of physical poisons that reduce our
ability to perceive and cognate we haven't begun to plumb the depths of what
those Texts are really saying.
It is for this reason that I call for the development of a way of life
that will release us from our bondage upon bondage.
Unlike most Anarchists; I am not an atheist.
On the contrary; I believe that only in an Anarchist condition will we be able to commune not only with one another, but with the Holy that resides within us but which we have been rendered incapable of accessing, except for fleeting moments and even that only to minimal intensity.
Only when we have become capable of communing with one another will we
be able to really and truly commune with our Souls and develop healthy
religions.
Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan,