Religion is one of the
most efficient ways of controlling the masses on the Dancefloor of Existence.
This is what the false prophets are all too aware of. Here I am no longer
referring to Jesus or Muhammad whom I am sure came up with their respective
religions with nothing but good intentions. I am talking about their
replacements which across history have used religion specifically to gain power
for themselves and control their subjects. The Crusaders, modern-day Jihadists
and the popes of the Middle Ages all knew how much the dancers on the
dancefloor needed something to follow. So they seized whichever religion was prevalent
in their time and era and used it to gain power over their followers and in
turn used them to gain power for themselves. Because as Karl Marx adequately
put it, religion is ‘opium des volkes’. It douses their senses and puts them
into a trance where they no longer make any decisions on their own but rather
just dance away to the tunes created by religion and played to perfection by
the false prophets. In a sense they are the DJs of the dancefloor of existence,
influencing and guiding the masses however they want. This is why religion is
included in what I term the Trinity of Control. I have touched upon this
briefly before but now is the time to vocalize it specifically.
The Trinity of Control
are the dictating powers that love to tell you what to do and how to live your
life, i.e. the GPS on the Infinite Freeway. They are religion, society and
cultural tradition, all generic terms which hold a lot of meanings which I will
explain more thoroughly as I reach the respective subjects. They are the set
path that is already laid out before you and that removes any responsibility
for your own destiny. Just follow the pre-programmed route, switch on autopilot
and live out your life in ignorant bliss. To stay in the dancefloor analogy,
the trinity of control are the different genres of music that are being played,
but common for all is that they are well known to the dancers and very catchy.
Thus by playing them, the DJs can instantly get the dancers to follow their
beat and thus control their movements. The DJs are the people who knows how to
play this music to perfection and make everyone dance away unaware that they
are in fact dancing to a very well thought out beat. This can at times be
transcenders that are trying to further the dancers but it can also be another
more dangerous tribe, which I will discuss further on. But important to note
from the beginning is that knowing how to play these tunes, i.e. to employ the
Trinity of Control, is not necessarily neither bad nor good. The Trinity of
Control should be viewed as a toolbox for the masses filled with ways to
rearrange and adjust the dancers on the dancefloor. Thus like Shane states it
to his compassionate benefactor/admirer, Marian, when explaining to her about
guns which he also refers to as tools; they are only as good or bad as the
people using them. In terms of religion, this tool is used by “real” and “false”
prophets alike. Jesus knew how to use it to spread his messages of peace and
love, but unfortunately many since him with less than good intentions and
messages did the same. The other two members of the trinity; society and cultural
tradition, will be dealt with in later posts.
Without going to
extremes I believe people can still have religion in their lives and be
enlightened and rational. After all, Einstein and Newton and many other
transcenders were religious. The trick is to not let religion rule over your
judgment but rather keep it further down the ladder, in a place where it cannot
interfere with cold, hard scientific reason. Hell, I still like going to church
on Christmas Eve. This however is not for religious reasons but rather for a sense
of community and tradition, essentially placing this act rather within the
confines of the Cultural Tradition branch of the Trinity.
In many cases the
other branches work together with the Religion branch. As mentioned before;
religion, society and culture are thoroughly intertwined in many countries
making it harder to break free from either. But this type of practice is
completely harmless in my eyes, yet the border between harmless and harmful
religion is historically very fluid and sometimes even indistinguishable,
leading me back to the previous notion that humanity might be better off with
no religion at all in this day and age. I certainly would not miss it, and I
believe anyone who had never been exposed to it in the first place would not
either. There are plenty of New Age alternatives to religion to fuel people’s
spiritualistic side which are less interfering with other aspects of life
because they focus attention inwards rather than outwards. Furthermore, science
today is so progressed that it can easily and satisfactorily fill any knowledge
gap that originally spawned religions. We know how the Earth was created, how
it could potentially be destroyed, why the sun rises in the east and how people
came to be. So the only reason to believe in religion is for comfort, to prefer
the illusion rather than reality.
Another benefit of
religion has recently been pointed out to me by religious people and
transcenders alike, how it teaches humans morality and that without it, people
would turn on each other. There are certainly a lot of morally sound messages
in most religious texts which again emphasizes religion’s place within the
Trinity of Control but as mentioned above the Trinity can be used to suit any
purpose which is also why religion historically has been the source of
immeasurable bloodshed, regardless of the intentions of its progenitors. Not
just the original prophets but also their descendants. Just look at the
persecution of Shia Muslims by their Sunni brethren. And Martin Luther might
have put Christianity in the hands of the people, but they in turn started
using it to burn witches. So to say morality stems from religion alone is to be
naïve. In addition, many of these sound moral messages are intertwined with
messages which are not so sound in a modern way of thinking. Here I refer to
all the rules about which food to eat, who to sleep with and/or love, how to
dress and of course who to worship. These choices should not be determined by
thousand year old texts in a contemporary progressed and free society. This is
why basing all your morals on religion is a victory too hard bought, it comes
with too many nasty side effects. I will discuss morality further in future
posts, but for now let me say that I definitely also believe that humans on a
macro scale need some form of control to rein in our more animalistic nature,
however I believe that religion comes at too great a cost to continue to
fulfill this duty and that the other branches of the Trinity are more than
capable of the task at this stage in history while not compromising human
development and progress.
Ignorance is bliss,
especially for people on the dancefloor of existence. But even these people
should still have the option to live a life without religion, as long as they
have the freedom to make a conscious choice. Rather than following false
prophets, they should follow super-transcenders, the real-world prophets who
have created a knowledge-fueled society that no longer needs religion to infuse
morality, and even if they then still cannot or do not wish to escape the
dancefloor, at least they are not hindering others in doing so which is
essentially the real problem with religion.
