"We, in our respective religions, have always been obsessed with the idea of the afterlife, that the good and bad will go to heaven and hell (or whatever the equivalent another religion has) after they die. This causality remains so strong in the religious psyche that it has been part of the concept of judgment day, the apocalypse, the end of the world as we know it. However, some if not most of us have become too focused and distracted in achieving the better part of this afterlife; we ought to follow and bow down unquestionably to whatever the rules that any religious or political leaders may have been spewing onto us, even if it means to repress, attack and ultimately destroy, anything (or anyone) that may hinder us from following these set of rules, all of that just to be assured of an afterlife that we don’t even really know."
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The thing is, because of religion’s power to divert man to destructive courses through its arrogant certitude, the world could actually come to an end.
It’s not just the thought that people could go at war because of their beliefs that inspires this apocalypse, but it’s also the thought that people at the positions of power, whether out of their faith, out of their own self-interest, or a horrible amalgamation of both, could make others go at war because of their beliefs.
PS: Now talk about the grandest of humanity’s list of self-fulfilling prophecies, haha.
