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March 27, 2015
Religion as mental illness at best.
"In the course of history," Adouous Huxley famously wrote in the Saturday Evening Post on October 18, 1958, "many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country."
Given events since he wrote that, from the more almost daily obscure atrocities committed over religion (sometimes infused by tribalism or nationalism) in Africa, Asia and the Middle East over the past 50 years to the attacks on the American financial district and Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001 and the thousands of military and civilian deaths worldwide since then, I wonder if Huxley, who died in late 1963, would have changed that introductory sentence if he were writing now.
Is there anything more evil or murderous and pathetic in this world at this point than organized religion? Will people ever be able to find something eternal about themselves without having to resort to the scriptures and structures of these horrible institutions that encourage so many to hate those who are different from them and keep us from growing and using our own brains and instincts? That justify marginalization, discrimination and killing? At this point in human history it is amazing to me that anyone with a brain and and soul would continue to participate in these complex prison schools of hate and lies or raise trusting children within their walls. When will we value thinking and feeling on one's own?
Posted by JD Hull at March 27, 2015 04:43 PM