RELIGION

The shared value that governs social behavior is common only in racial identification; group memberships are therefore identified by kinship ties. The strength of bloodline alone determines one’s position in standards; a ticket that opens doors of opportunities. From this perspective, a community is structured upon layers of cultural groups; the majority one at the top of the hierarchy, the minority one at the bottom of the heap. This structure is common with Conservative and far rights liberal movements that are largely taken for democracy.

The economy is the next in structural formation of society. That is; the participatory of economic activities binds different cultures. Cultural survival depends upon economic developments; the idea itself is modified in transitional periods from tradition to the modern. Progress in this perspective is a cultural movement from its origin towards the top of the hierarchy; the top of the hierarchy been the majority culture. While values are radically changed, the smaller groups are threatened to extinction. Those who are born in a small group status adopt the more attractive ways of the modern but also of the majority culture. This compared with poverty stricken conditions and the social expectations associated with a culture in this social sector is a motivation to change. Culture is a product of economic progress.

With the exception of sports and entertainments fanatics, religion is the third factor in structural formation. While the dope of society draws huge followers, its economic benefits are not necessarily a result of spiritual choice. Rather, happiness may be stratified according to layers of choices: one of material pleasure; another of the spiritual nature. While psychology plays a role in behavior, spiritualism departs itself from the body to focus on natural activities of the mind.

In its departure, one may leave behind the traditional associations with materialism for the more pure activities of rational behavior. And this is the position I identify true religion with. It is not racial, cultural, economic, or fanaticism. Rather, it is pure. It is not restricted to Jesus, Abram, or Gandhi or privately owned by the cultures of their time, it is not economically determined. Religion stands alone independently from the above influence. It perceives life from the a priori position, the creation of knowledge and their behavior in their origin. And this is where the individual is related to God through a median of spiritual participatory whether its prayer, meditation, music or play.

While religion is economic depended, politics play a powerful role in determination of its direction. Religion is reformed by social pressure of a time undergoes radical transformations associated with the economic and cultural influence paralleled to it. Religion in the modern is political motivated according to the social normalization of culture. This perspective unites religion with the social, economic, and political structure of a society. When this occurrence exists, it emerges a platform for judicial and educational determinations according to the values based upon the social hierarchy of the community. It is the union of modern religion and the State.

But true religion is metaphysical, independent, and appeals to the universal identification of humanity irrespective of all of the above corruptions.

From the a priori position, the spirit is independent of the self; reality is created from nothingness. It is free from the existing influence of culture, economic, and their politics.

Victim

Reality is not a self-entity. Rather within it is true spirituality pure and innocent. That means the traditional followers of religion are merely conforming to culture and traditional norms. The basis of Christianity therefore is only limited to the human Jesus, the holistic unity with God is less practiced. It is more of the physical Jesus than Spirituality - is true to a materialistic reality.

An example of events where the church has fallen victim to culture implied a time when individuals found the church a refuge from witch-hunt, took vows in religious order.

This is now challenged by the modern culture of society, the church continues to reform according to the demands of nationalistic norm. That is; the church unites with the state to politicize the economic or material organization of society. The social reforms materialized an economic role within the church.

But take the self away from the real and the church is purified from social political and economic corruption. This is the stage where a religious transformation emerges, a renewal by departing from the state to be independent and pure.

It is not the church’s doctrine or God’s will for the abuse, rather a product of society itself. The church like any other social institution is a victim of culture and traditional expectations.

A Spiritual Transformation (Revelations)

A woman clothed with the sun,

The moon under her feet

Upon her head a crown of twelve stars
Being with child cried travailing in birth

A great dragon with seven heads

Ten horns and seven crowns

His tail drew third the part of the stars

The dragon stood before the woman

To devour her child as was born

A child to rule the nations with a rod of iron

Was caught up unto God and his throne

There the angels in heaven

Michael fought against the dragon

But their place was found no more

The great dragon and his angels

Were cast out into the earth

A devil to deceive the world

Accuser of our brethren day and night

But the brethren loved not their lives unto death

The dragon persecuted the woman

But the woman were given two wings of a great eagle

That she might fly to her place in the wilderness

Where she nourished for a time, and times, and half a time

From the face of the serpent

The serpent cast a flood after the woman

But the earth opened her mouth

And swallowed the flood

The dragon was wroth with the woman

And went to make war with the remnant of her seed

Which kept the commandments of God

Woe to the earth and of the sea

Rejoice in the heavens and those who dwell in them