Ancient Religious Beliefs Are Divisive and Destructive
We advance technologically with relative ease but not so socially, politically, or intellectually. There continues to be enormous inequities and extraordinary amounts of violence in our world. We war with each other in every way conceivable. We destroy our environment and deplete our resources. Why is that?
We don’t drive around in vehicles that are thousands of years old. We don’t see chariots being driven down our streets. Yet, we cling to religious belief systems that are literally thousands of years old. These beliefs are products of the infancy of our intelligence.
As a consequence, many of us exist in a world of fiction and fantasy. We do not understand our reality and the behavioral demands of our reality. We do not recognize the security and joy that can be found in the oneness in which we exist - the unity in our diversity - instead, we create all kinds of divisions…all kinds of tribes. We have nation-state tribes, political party tribes, religious tribes, corporate tribes, ad infinitum. And we war with each other.
As a consequence, we exist not more secure but less secure. We have created a destructive and unsustainable momentum that must be arrested and reversed if we are going to sustain humanity and advance our civilization. We need a new understanding of the way our world works, the architecture of life, and what is truly sacred in our world.
To do this requires entering into a completely new way of thinking about the reality in which we exist and its behavioral demands. Our window of opportunity to accomplish the necessary and monumental transition in thinking is small compared to the large obstacles within our current belief systems that must be dissolved. Yet, we ,must do this if we and all the life forms that share this jewel of a planet are to survive.
Our future lies in our own hands. As it always has. The difference today is that we understand a great deal more about what sustains and optimizes life. It is time to apply our knowledge, to honor what we know. Only then will we reverse our destructive and unsustainable momentum, end our needless suffering, prosper together, find peace, sustain humanity, and advance our civilization.
Filed under: Earth and Life, environmental crisis, global remedies, overpopulation, quality of life, religion, sustainability
