Knowledge is power.
This is why many “sociopaths” or simply just pragmatic transcenders have a
natural talent for leadership. Through their understanding of the universe and
its patterns they see everything in a clearer perspective and can thus better
manage existence. It is no coincidence that what I call super-transcenders are
referred to as prophets by the History Channel. They have the same power to
enslave people to their point of view, just like religious prophets such as
Jesus and Mohammed. The only difference is that what the transcenders preach is
something tangible and based on real-life observations which does not require
belief in something ethereal, but rather for you to simply observe the world
and arrive at similar conclusions enabling you to further expand your
understanding of the universe and existence itself. This breeds evolution and
progress and puts us higher up the evolutionary ladder whereas religious
prophets do the opposite, latching on to the past and trying to maintain the
status quo by enslaving people to their beliefs. These beliefs are usually
finite, putting an end to all intellectual development and encourages people to
just “believe” in scripture and prayers, whereas the world of science
encourages people to make their own choices and question everything. Socrates
famously said: ‘All I know is that I know nothing’. This sense of humility is a
key in distinguishing transcender prophets from “real” prophets, who in fact
are the false ones from this point of view. While religion seemingly offers
answers to all life’s questions, science rather encourages people to seek
answers for themselves, to make up their own minds. The problem is that most
people are too scared to find their own answers, they would rather just have
someone tell them. Plus science does not hold all the answers because it
acknowledges that there are still many things that we do not know. But instead
of jumping to conclusions and providing lots of easy and finite answers like religion
does (because I said so!), science maintains its sense of humility and armed with a natural
curiosity proceeds on its quest for knowledge into infinity.
Unlike humble
scientists who realize that there are still many other discoveries to be had in
the future of the human race, most religions have for literally thousands of
years been preaching to people; ‘Don’t look for more knowledge, everything you
need to know is in this or that scripture’, ‘This is how you should live your
life, not the way you actually want to’, etc. They are taking the freedom and
choice away from people, and in the process they arrest any form of personal
development, not only in individuals, but also, and this is much worse, on a
macro scale. Religion, in fact, is holding back our entire species. This is
because many countries are imposing religion on their people on a national
level, effectively forcing them to be religious in order to be a citizen. This
is so much worse than parents teaching religion to their children, because in
worst cases it causes persecution and imprisonment for non-believers but at the
very least forms social judgment and pressure to conform. So even if parents in
such countries wish for their child to choose its own faith, society and
culture make it harder to pass that knowledge on to their children. After all,
nobody wants to be a pariah let alone be imprisoned.
Imagine how many
geniuses like Copernicus, Galileo and countless unnamed others who had the
intellect to carry our species further, but was hindered by the paradigm in
which they lived and thus were prosecuted and sometimes killed for trying to
advance the species. Although this form of persecution is much rarer these
days, it does still exist in more ancient parts of the world. But even in
slightly more progressed countries, by continuously preaching these outdated
dogmas to entire societies, essentially brainwashing young children into
actually believing these things, religion is even today trapping the minds of
billions of people, who could otherwise be well on their way to transcendence.
This is when religion is no longer cute and funny, but actually becomes a
serious problem. Imagine all these people, currently on the dancefloor of
existence dancing away to the tunes of religion being played by their
governments. They have simply never heard any other music so have never had the
same opportunities for knowledge that modern transcenders like Hawking, Kaku,
Krauss, Dawkins and Harris had. We could potentially have additional billions of
great thinkers helping to advance our species whereas right now it’s only a
small percentage of the population that has the freedom to think unhindered and
uninhibited without interference from parents, schools or governments telling
them what to believe. This will not stand.
That is why part of my
renewed mission in life is to let these trapped souls know that there is a
world without religion and it is a beautiful and wondrous place. As soon as
they have that information, what they choose to do with it, is no longer my
concern. I do still believe in freedom of religion, but only if you have had
all the options laid out before you before you made your decision, and made it at a time
when you had the experience and knowledge to do so informed. If a
well-educated adult chooses to believe in any given religion, I cannot stop
him. After all, religion is still so integral in human culture that it would be
impossible to just go cold turkey. That would probably just spawn even more
extremist fanatics and Lord knows, we do not need more of those. Religion can
still do good in some forms and to some people but gradually, if infused with
knowledge, such people would also start to see its uselessness.
However, it still has
to exist only in voluntary form and if parents start brainwashing their children
to follow the same religion, then I draw the line. Children should learn about
all religions and science equally, and then when they are mature, they can
decide which they want to follow, but not sooner. This is why religion is still
so prevalent in our day and age. Like a hereditary disease it spreads downwards
through generations because children are indoctrinated from the moment they are
born. How many Christians would choose to get baptized as adults? How many
adult Jews would want to be circumcised? How do you know a Muslim child would
not have pork as his favorite food if he tried it as a child? And the list goes
on. Children cannot make these choices, it is their parents or elders that make
them for them, and this is not freedom of religion. It is the opposite, it is
enslavement of religion. Generation after generation creating mindless drones
to spread the word of God onwards or create soldiers to fight in his wars. Existence
is a much better story than anything humans ever thought up. And make no
mistake, every religion was conceived by humans, just like you and me. Religion
has held back our species long enough. On a global scale it has outlived its
purpose and I wonder if it needs to be put down, once and for all.
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