Religion Criticism by Daniel Dennet

It may shed some light on how far religious zealots have gone and are going in literally controlling and disciplining those who deviate from the official line. They have become willing and not at all hesitant to deploy any and all known gadgets and know how to perversely influence, coerce, dominate, and subjugate any and all real and perceived deviants due to their belief in miracles and making a miracle the central ethos of their mysticism. Despite constitutional guarantees for individual rights to worship or not worship, belong or not belong at all, one can cry out and receive no help or sympathy.

This letter, I believe, supplements Daniel Dennet's article on religion in "The Guardian UK Thursday 16 July 2009."

Though I disagree with his ideas about what religion and spirituality should be and how they should be practised, I strongly agree with his description of the perverse practises of some, if not the vast majority, of organised religion's authorities. Despite the audacious self-portrait, organised religion is about interest, material class, and group fulfilment rather than the inner search for the truth and individual and social self fulfilment. I don't understand the objections to making the most important decisions of our lives in consultation with our inner voices because we all make vital life and death decisions in consultation with our inner voices, and I see no exception to that. However, if our inner voices become the inner voices of our religion's authorities, as is frequently the case, our concern is justified.

Organization is predicated on the stratification of professionalism, specialisation, and division of labour.

Is it any surprise, then, that those at the top of the social hierarchy have a vested interest in mystifying the practise and shrouding it in secrecy in order to defend their acquired or given status? If irrationality is tolerated or encouraged in any social structure, there is no need to explain that it can only be done by those who are able and in position to do so, and it is obvious who those are. The one major point to emphasise here is that all hierarchical social structures, to varying degrees, are capable of encouraging acts of irrationality and irrational exuberance (the curse of division of labour and social stratification).

As these religious institutions and social structures gave rise to science and scientific institution and the continuous ineptitude of the latter to find answers for the fundamental perplexing issues of ours' and everything Else's beginning, current existence and future destiny; had engendered and continues to engender the ever continued appeal of the practise of religion and spirituality. The truth of spirituality has been for Melina and I am sure will continue to be for another in an effort to find the truth and self that is absent in the material and scientific world out there, here, and everywhere in an effort to find the truth and self that is absent in the material and scientific world out there, here, and everywhere. That search in the gaps between the material realities of yesterday, today, and tomorrow that we can only reach through our intuitions and that we can only imagine and cannot quantify or qualify through all other ways and means currently available will always draw us to spirituality, individually and collectively.




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