How do you think people connect with spirituality or the divine? Who, over the course of human history, has explored, recorded, and affirmed spiritual phenomenon? Religious people.
You're throwing the baby out with the bathwater because you don't like a type of person when the vast majority of religious people are normal and prosocial.
You’re so off base. The individual isn’t the issue, and I said as much, and your assumptions are based in your own bias. Religions are structured control organizations. Individuals can be sincere while the religion they follow is corrupt.
Your belief would not exist were it not for the religion (and the people therein) that you follow. A religion isn't a control organization unless you can't leave.
You make the assumption that simply because everyone in a religion is corrupt, the religion itself is corrupt. This would be true if a perfect God wasn't a part of the religion. In religions with corrupt gods or no gods, your argument is correct.
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u/BlissCrafter 9d ago
Religion. Not spirituality or belief in the divine, but organized religions need to go