Re: My view of why nobody is really religious.
Nobody wants to die, all "religious" people are just ego, they are not more free than anyone else, and they're not going to find heaven after all this, not matter how much faith or belief they have, it will remain as faith and belief. Thoughts. Heaven is an ideal for the future to attain, something far away. Ego. As long as man is a sinner and God is "over there" away from us, separate from us (which is what modern churches seem to make people think) then the priests will always be in power. This kind of foolishness is how they got there in the first place. Whoever respects a priest more than most people is a fool, they are as much human as you, with a different skin on, a different face. They can become a murderer overnight, the seed is still there.
If the ego dies, then death is known and accepted. Eventually, the ego dies, death is known, and then once it is known as part of life, the outgoing breath after the incoming, the winter after the summer, then it cannot be feared. Because then you know that you never really die, just the body. You rise above these cycles... We are all more than what we see here, and religious people don't know that, won't accept it. It seems silly but it's true! They say they do, but their whole belief structure is ego, it shows they don't. You're not going to find God in the end, you either find it in this moment or nowhere because this moment is all that exists.
I mean, we all need the ego to function in society, without thinking, man wouldn't be "above" animals right now, we had to use thinking to find "technology". IF everyone where Buddhas, it would be either a very very beautiful society, one which I cannot even imagine, or no society at all. So ego is helpful in a way, for us to survive, the problem is somewhere along the lines, we forgot who really are, that is the real problem in humanity.
But it's ok because one day we wake up and we're like "Oh yeah! I knew this all along, God was really right here in front of me!" it's bound to happen sooner or later, to everyone I think. And that is the ultimate death.
Those chasing heaven or hell are just decieving themselves. To preach these beliefs, especially to children who are new to the world, is to completely corrupt them, and the cycle of false thinking, half-assed belief and lies goes on... Children are more free than us, and this is because society hasn't corrupted them yet.
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