A little preface, I have been taking a class on the origin of western thought and another on religion. And one it goes through the Greeks and their pursuit of greatness (Arety) and that being the best in men, to Rome where duty to Rome is the best in men, to Christianity. My thought has been if you look at a lot of what we see today that we don't agree with. I think alot of what has been issued especially in out blogs is because of Christianity. The poor and"underprivileged" are held in higher esteem than our leaders of business, which seems reminiscent of a message of Mark (one of Jesus's apostles) the meek shall inherit the earth.That line of teaching has caused our government to give money to the elderly, start welfare, start social security, medicare, medicade, to keep big business under their thumb to let the 'meek' survive in business.
Now I don't want it to seem like I'm knocking Jesus to much, I have been reading a lot of religious stuff lately and the more I read the more I find that Jesus was anti-Establishment, very feminist and barely at all what I see represented in the christian church today. I appears that Jesus could have a serious Tort case on his hand if he did return to earth as it was foretold.
Another thing about the Koran and the words of Mohamed, it seems contradictions run wild in their books as well, the most popular one being that it is great to kill infidels. It is odd that earlier in his teachings he taught to harm another was the worst thing you could do. He was teaching that when he just a prophet and not a leader of a city, later when he became leader of the city and needed to defend it conveniently it switched to it is great to kill non-believers.The pattern I see, is that give a religion power and it corrupts almost to the core, and well that is also what I see going on with the American government today. Whether it is religion overtones, society, or human nature I'm not sure but one common denominator is Power. Or as Ayn Rand would say the perception or illusion of Power, of which unsurprisingly I agree with her.
Many of you may think that hey maybe Jews have it right, they are mostly non-violent, they really haven't corrupted government. But they are one major religion that has not had a nation of their own, and have been oppressed for most all of their existence, so in other words don't rule them out they haven't been given a chance.Now it's not that I'm per say against religion but I will say I'm sure as hell (no pun intended) against them having anything to do with power, influence or money.
As history and current events have shown I think religion may do more damage than good. But who are we to listen to current events or god (man those puns come quick) forbid history I mean it is not like they repeat themselves.
Please let me know your thoughts, I'm very curious to hear
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