good bye Jehovah! english by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: spa
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-12T15:40:59+00:00

Not everyone has the strength to face their fears. Not everyone wants to ask questions all their life. Some people just want comfort. People thirst for security. And faith serves this very need to have a final, absolute answer that gives you security. And that's perfectly fine. Faith is okay. Spirituality, like skepticism, is a choice. One does not even have to necessarily question the other. Because faith is a personal thing. As long as faith is merely the object of a personal confession, man and his environment are fine. But if faith is institutionalized, the chances are that it will develop into a totalitarian system. This does not apply to any religion or church, nor is it a silly conspiracy theory. Just make a checklist of the characteristics of totalitarianism and compare yourself with a sect of your choice.

Hannah Arendt said, in a similar vein, that the goal of a totalitarian system is not the curtailment of individual freedoms. Rather, it is to deprive people of their scope of action -

and thus the "reality of freedom".

At some point I understood the nature of faith and its antipode, the institutionalized faith. It had always been difficult for me to understand why I had submitted to my fate for so long, why I had taken Armageddon, demons, holy spirits at face value, why I had not wanted to see the obvious, why I had shifted the benevolently crushing burden of proof from me. For a long time, I found it difficult to understand why my parents, educated people who owned an entire shelf of National Geographic magazines next to the Bible and the Watchtower, put their faith above our relationship. Why they still believe today that it is as sad as it is logical that I will die in Armageddon. It's so simple because they never asked themselves the questions that I was pursuing. Their faith outweighed any DNA TEST.

I tried logic, they countered with conviction. I had brought a knife to a gunfight. I suppose they are aware of the possibility that they are wrong. But they're willing to accept a little evil for a little safety. The British cultural historian Peter Watson, author of the book The

Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God, therefore considers religion less a neurosis than a psychological adaptation to our human predicament, as he noted in an interview. Religion is a sociological phenomenon rather than a theological one. "Many people go to a psychotherapist in search of meaning, not because they want treatment for a mental illness," he says. He concludes that the psychology of religion has overtaken religion.

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