Random Religions
Alexander Liss
Some think that atheism is a root of many
problems in the world. However, one hardly can find an atheist and especially
an atheistic society. Individuals and societies, which declare themselves
atheistic, usually follow some primitive form of religion.
It is possible that Zen Buddhists are
atheists; if so, then they achieve it with a perpetual and unusual work, which
keeps them from succumbing into some form of religion. Others invent a
primitive religion and not knowing a developed religion, they get strongly
attached to such newly invented religion.
Inside developed religions, various
primitive forms perpetually emerge and attract followers.
These two processes of emergence of
primitive religions either from an absence of a developed religion or as a primitive outgrowth inside a developed religion,
provide a perpetually changing set of emerging and disappearing primitive
religions.
These religions are forms of delusion,
which appear randomly and perpetually. Some of them are stable and could cause
serious detachment from reality.
In societies with socialism and atheism as
base ideologies, usually a stable primitive religion emerges, which manifests
itself in a cult of personality.
In societies with a developed form of
religion, flexible poetic texts are increasingly interpreted rigidly and
logically and this leads to regress of the religion into a primitive form.
Often, this primitive form is supported by some movement inside the religion,
but sometimes, this delusion becomes stable and even overtakes the culture of
society.
People asserting their rational approach
often declare the Mind of society as something infinite that can convert any
unknown into knowledge. This is in spite of own experience of importance of not
conscious behavior. Such assertion leads to a primitive religion with the Mind
as a Supreme Being. Consequences of this self-limitation are not innocent.
There is no formal defense against
delusions manifesting themselves as primitive religions. They emerge
spontaneously and randomly. However, when one knows about this phenomenon and
watches out for it, one can easily spot them. One should destroy them, if
possible. Delusions never lead to good outcomes.
In the culture of monotheism, there are
safeguards against primitive religions taking over thinking of an individual or
a society.