#humans #story # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Related - [[Bitcoin vs god]] - [[Idealism]] - [[en.wikipedia.org - Theory of Basic Human Values - Wikipedia]] - [[Philosophy/Theology/The Church]] - [[Philosophy/Buddhism/Buddhism]] - [[Philosophy/Scholasticism/Scholasticism]] # Religion  >When we are going to look into the question of what [[Philosophy/Humans/Love|love]] is, we have to be aware of our traditional, inherited conditioning which brings about various forms of suppression—Victorian and modern—or permissive enjoyment of sex. >~ [[Krishnamurti|Jiddu Krishnamurti]]   >There is a doctrine whispered in secret that man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand >~ [[Bertrand Russell]]   >When a thousand people believe some made-up story for one month – that’s fake news. When a billion people believe it for a thousand years – that’s a religion > ~ [[Yuval Noah Harari]]   Modern **religion** is like modern fruit, very artificially selected to suit everyone, it has nothing to do with the old.   Religion is tribalism, [[Groupism]], *Thou shalt not kill* only applies to member of the same group.   >It has been finely said that if Judaism as a **religion** had perished under Antiochus, the seed-bed of Christianity would have been lacking; and thus the blood of the Maccabean martyrs, who saved Judaism, ultimately became the seed of the Church. Therefore as not only Christendom but also Islam derive their monotheism from a Jewish source, it may well be that the world to-day owes the very existence of monotheism both in the East and in the West to the Maccabees. > ~ *Townsend, in his introduction to the translation of the Fourth Book of Maccabees*   >The Means of procuring Wealth and thereby securing Virtue, it being more **difficult for a Man in Want to act always honestly**, as (to use here one of those Proverbs) **it is hard for an empty Sack to stand upright**. ~ [[Benjamin Franklin]]   >Religion, no. Religiousness, yes. The object of devotion is largely irrelevant. So long as it provides man with the intoxication of losing himself. St. Francis of Assisi devoted his life to god. As did Meera. They lived in complete freedom. I did not say pray. I did not say worship. I did not say preach. I did not say follow. I did not say scriptures. I did not say prescriptions. But to devote the whole of oneself to god or to any other endeavor takes one away from oneself. And this is the door to freedom. The door to becoming life itself. >~ [[Kapil Gupta - Direct Truth - Uncompromising - Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life]]  ![[1672755455945_religion_by_Picasso.jpg]]