If morality was a product we could ask the above questions,
according to who you talk to the answers would be as different as night and
day.
What
nobody will tell you is that morality is a constant; it is in existence long
before religion can even be created and it is morality that gives religion the goodness and righteousness that gives faith, the belief
system and the reason for existing.
Morality is a system
of ideas and values concerning what is right and wrong behavior. It is the
quality of being in accord with this particular standard – according to The
American Heritage Dictionary.
But long before there was even religion morality was already
in place in early man. After thousands of years of trial and error, after
observations that were handed down from father to son, after man himself began
to become more rational, it was then that morality appeared. It appeared out of
necessity, it came into being because man found out that if he killed your
brother you could come back and kill his sister. It is sort of reciprocity this
morality thing.
Since man is a rational, thinking being he also began to get
curious…he started to question the environment around him and finally the
origin of it all…where did he come from and why was he…well..himself?
The need to answer these questions that are obviously
without an answer gave birth to religion.”Religion is defined as the belief in and reverence towards a
supernatural power understood to be the creator and ruler of the universe. It
is the collection of doctrine that supports the belief system.
Religion is the shared emotional and spiritual beliefs held by its'
followers”*
Even if religion and
morality are two separate entities and sets of ideas at some point religion saw
it necessary to incorporate morality into its sets of beliefs. In other words,
religion hijacked morality as an integral part of that faith and codified it
into doctrine thus making it inseparable from dogma.
The problem is, as Roger Poladoupoulus
so aptly points out “When religion allows itself to be contaminated and manipulated by
humans, it loses sight of its' collective tenets and truths. The contaminators
and manipulators become the cancerous cells infecting the body of the faithful
thus religion becomes blinded by the destructive invasion. The result is that
religion becomes separated from morality. The two no longer work together for
the greater good and benefit of all. When this happens, religion becomes an
instrument of hate and evil as it has severed itself from morality, that which
is good and right”. I do think that religion and morality are independent of one another, they can exist side by side or they can exist together acting synergistically to offer mankind guidance and some solutions to his problems. The problem however is that religion, in its quest to prevail, survive, thrive and dominate then abandons morality for the sake of greed and power. It is exactly what makes religion useless and harmful.
Roger further states: “Once
it abandons morality, religion loses its' validity. It no longer enjoys the
goodness and righteousness that gives faith, the belief system, its' essence.
It is a ship adrift without captain and crew. Religion has no reason to exist
as it has undermined itself through hatred, decadence and false prophets. There
is no longer the truth as a basic foundation because the truth was
discarded, ignored and forgotten. The God of Love; of acceptance, tolerance and
understanding was rejected just as the followers of the hypocrites and haters
turned their backs on their GLBT brothers and sisters. The message of fairness
and justice that religion once delivered to the faithful no longer has any
meaning to its' flock nor to the world-at-large.”
Man created religion
in his quest to find answers…answers at that time and even today, that have not
appeared nor will they ever. It is because our limited intelligence, our
backwardness and inability to comprehend the nature of the universe and the
speculation that there is some entity with unlimited knowledge and power to
have created it and to be guiding it or supervising it if you will. This whole
concept exists only in the minds of religious people and it has to be pointed
out that it is not the truth, not the absolute truth they claim it to be.
A lot of Christians
firmly believe that if there was no religion there would be no morality either.
But I strongly disagree. I happen to know a lot of agnostics and atheists whose
morals far outshine those who call themselves Christians.
As for myself, just
because I am not intelligent enough to understand the origins of the universe
and my own ignorance as to if some supernatural entity created all this…I
refuse to make up outlandish explanations, I am not one to accept fabricated
fairy tales that are more outrageous than the simple explanations that are
there: that we are not intelligent enough to tackle such questions but are too
dumb to offer substitutes.
Religion became unreasonable after it
abandoned morality and it also adopted sexual behavior and the relations
between humans as part of that morality. It became so preoccupied with sexual
behavior simply because in the quest of religion to totally dominate man and
make a slave out of him it became necessary to repress sexuality, to control it
and to marginalize it as something out of the bounds of morality.
Thus we see that man
has an innate need to love and be loved but that religion has intruded and told
him that it is immoral to love and be loved. Morality here went out the window
when religion misinterpreted it and polluted it.
But also, in order to
have sexuality incorporated into this false morality thing, religion made it
imperative that sexual behavior be criminalized, penalized and included into a
set of hatreds and misconceptions. Thus the explanation for the homophobia
found in so many religions today.
The need to
criminalize love between people of the same sex had its origins early in the
history of man when a single plague could easily wipe out humans from the face
of the earth. Thus it became imperative that man procreated and did so
prolifically in order to have human survival. But today things are quite
different; we have extended longevity and found cures for many of the ailments
that killed our ancestors. This little blue marble called earth is
overpopulated and getting a lot worse. There will come a time in the very near
future that we will not be able to sustain such high levels of overpopulation.
Enter 15% of that
population that is GENETICALLY inclined to love others of the same sex and not
procreate and you actually have a blessing! If only the other 85% would act
responsibly and only breed to replace themselves and not contribute to the
overpopulation problem.
* Roger Poladopoulos
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