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RELIGION IS A MENTAL ILLNESS

Personally I do not think that religion is a mental illness as we are acquainted with its normal dimensions - taught as a moral behaviour discipline to young children, though frequently then disguised as a threat or confused as a mystery (without teaching the different types of religion taught to others in different parts of the world.)  It would be customary for teenagers to think about the "reality" of religion I would have thought, and decide in what way they admit "belief" or "faith" into their lives.  As to the truth of religion, having discarded it as a "belief" because of a normal anxiety about truth, and the teenager's increasing awareness of social lies and corruption, it might then be retained as a "faith" in the beneficial exercise of say Christianity's benign dogma attributed to Jesus. However increasingly the individual unless wholly dependent on the community becomes in this day and age, agnostic (doubt) or atheist (rejection) and looks on reality as the conundrum that life is for any individual's sense of responsibility.

Perhaps largely because of the terrible complexity and lack of equality either economically, socially or in health, the individual may become overwhelmed by helplessness, drugs, lies and corruption that is available on every side. By that I mean corruption that harms self or others.

I do not mention love, as ofcourse as far as most religious outlooks take us it is never at love; the bewildering forces of love, the beauty of youth,nature,life as it surrounds us is ignored by religious practice.  We all experience the upsurge, joyful energy, and shared experience of this if we are lucky in our circumstances of existence. However life has taken a swerve ever in unfortunate or in wrong directions compounded in wider and wider circles directly the Industrial Revolution introduced the possibility of individual power over others, or of creating political power. These concepts alone can be the origin of the "mental illness" we are asked to discuss here. Aspects of control by God have been introduced into civilisation by the many and various priests of religion and politics, and this notion of control has permeated our lives in such a way as to imprison us in many false sets of values. Power separates us from our soul's resources  from many aspects of wellbeing,  through agriculture, art, adventure, and work of every kind.  We are infact in deep shit as the unfortunate phrase depicts our stature in life. We cannot restrain rule from dominating circumstances through fear of the huge extent of population numbers, industry entangled with existence at every level, and taking refuge in religious dogma occurs with political entanglements, economic, and financial status  and displays of every kind.

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  • South

    Read Maat; the 11 Laws of God by Ra Un Nefer Amen and see if you find anything of value in that small tome. Also, we need to examine the origins of that word, religion, before we can truly expound on what is it, what it is supposed to do and how it functions. I believe it has something to do with binding, or, tying back. Check it out.

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