Religion, school and the media are part of the apparatus of the state thought control.
Though ultimately the democratic state has the means of physical coercion can eliminate
uprisings and revolts of his subjects, only use as a last resort, rather indoctrinate or
demoralize dissent before acua her, chase her, fine- la, it imprisons, executes it or
mutilate it. ---- Origin of religion ---- The fact that religion is universal. All
cultures and peoples of the United flocks usually engage in some kind of cult of spirits
or ancestors. Religious beliefs have their origin in animism or spirit worship practiced
by hunter-gatherers. Animism is derived from the experiences that cause dreams, trance
induced by drugs, as well as experience the death of others. Humans dream when they sleep.
They can talk, travel to distant places, eating, hunting, talking to dead relatives ...
But the body lies without moving. Also, the custom of eating all kinds of substances that
can alter the state of consciousness through hallucinogenic fungi, plant seeds, liqueurs,
leaves, etc., that our ancestors did they had an interest pharmacopoeic designed to give
excitement to their lives . Assuming that death was the time to release the inner life or
soul was something very sensitive. Nothing wants to die, and the dream of death the soul
is liberated and is immortal.
Religion also has its origin in the need to explain natural phenomena. As knowledge has
advanced cientificose, myths will be crumbling. Religion can adapt as science.
Animism
Animism is the cult of the dead people. He had many curious variations from those who try
by all means to chase a lost soul, to those who ask for favors and protection. People more
dreamy, romantic and enlightened egalitarian societies, or more chutzpah, could - or so
believed or claimed that yes - to make contact with the spirits, attract hunting,
rainmaking, curing diseases, good luck and stuff . Although religious practices in
egalitarian societies were accessible by anyone, shamans in his spare time - and remember
that in the villages and flocks had much free time - did the role of storytellers, were
cured and intermediate elements. They spoke with the totems, usually animal spirits ...
Initiated children age into adulthood with rituals hard to pass. When your turn arrives,
goes to the designated location, prepares, purifies, sings, takes drugs to meditate and is
even physically tortured, waiting for a sight of his totem. And, in the end, has a vision.
It is logical to have!
This reaffirms the truth of belief and belonging in the flock and people.
The first religions
As the hunter-gatherer societies develop in communities with chiefs, and finally states
evolve in religious beliefs. Shamans become priests of the service chiefs, kings and
emperors. Memorized their genologias, or invented, making the chief descendant of the Sun
or coyote, ensured his immortality with mummification and sumptuous tombs and ensured the
tranquility of the people by ensuring that any movement out of the ordinary would be
punished with a plague. Beside the chief always went the minister of culture: the
wizard-priest, who monopolized the world centuries of culture, technology, art and
prognosis of time. Released from work could investigate, compile the comments of other
people and reach conclusions. The predictions about eclipses, flooding rivers, exchange
stations, medical treatments and support the ruling classes, provided them with power and
wealth. The first known and best studied religions such as Egyptian, leave no doubt about it.
Egypt has remained unchanged for thousands of years thanks to an alliance between state
and religion and it was only with the arrival of other states more organized military and
culturally as the Roman, which is exchanged their customs. Later a thousand years the
Earth was at the center of the universe for the stupidity of the Christian sects. Equally
regrettable is evidence that the vast majority of artistic events that we came so far are
from religious groups and politicians.
Monotheism and anthropocentrism
The religious freaks have their exponent most horrible and abominable in the Western
monotheistic sects that persist today: Judaism and its derivatives, which are Christianity
and Islam. These religions give rise to the principle anthropocentric, so pervasive in
today's civilization. The human species, according to this principle, you can do what
gives you the tile. The world is at your feet. Is it lawful to use all the features of the
planet until its exhaustion. This translated in practice means that the ruling elites may
have his will, seas, animals, plants, minerals, and of course, humans below that should be
treated as livestock. The Judeo-Christianity throws cry dominates the earth and everything
is permitted. This policy has led to resource depletion, deforestation of large areas of
the planet, and everything else that happens.
His moral standards are pure nonsense in the service of the powerful: love your enemy ...
why? If it's bad, the domination was rewarded with love, if we do not distinguish friend
from foe, the same way you love who loves you and who torments you, whom you help and who
you tread, whom kills your neighbor ... what good ethics? On the other hand, report crimes
and disasters caused by just these three civilized (and loving) religions, exceeds this
work. To the Spaniards and Latinos who are curious, I recommend a careful reading of the
Bible. Bureaucracies these churches are part of the state, to be maintained and supported
by him.
Modern Religions
Many of them are called sects. Note that there is no objective difference between the
Catholic Church and Hare Krishna. Both are sects or churches, according to members or not.
Both claim the monopoly of reward and punishment spiritual and supernatural. The only
difference is the degree of control exercised by the bureaucracy on religious believers.
Many religions came from the East, such as Buddhism, Zen, and other seemingly more
tolerant. His preaching supernatural are no better than the Christian sects. Everywhere
you will see their priests and popes living history. Religions are ensuring that there are
religions that do not have an ideology behind them, which are practical, inner
experiences, we do not proselytize, seeking the annihilation of the "I" or anything stupid
like that occurs while you are shitting, as if that was not enough for annihilation that
suffers when dying, ... These religions have teachers writing in full swing, organizing
meetings, giving lectures ... And they charge a lot for it.
Currently have issued numerous religious beliefs that promote religion ? la carte. You can
believe whatever you want. No matter what you think - more or less - provided they pay the
guru, or priestess for their blessings and workshops, buy their books and spend your
vacation in places of refuge and retreat.
All these beliefs support the idea of ??individual salvation, within the capitalist
system. Have a discourse of brotherhood, love, etc.. Perform exercises self-suggestion,
relaxation, positive visualization, astral flight ... Through that you can acquire health,
wealth, job promotion, predict the future, lose weight and boost morale, finding a loving
relationship.
It is logical that if you stop smoking and drinking alcohol, your physical and mental
state will improve, but it has no relation to the beliefs of addition, not believing in
the illusions of a charlatan. Do not confuse the benefits of relaxation, eating lots of
vegetables and the cultivation of self-esteem, with the existence of Karma and reincarnation.
Remember what is the basis of all religion: you do something wrong, you have to blame
something, blame is that it has made miserable, and that makes a ritual any, will feel
better in life and after death, Also. but when I see so much exercise twisted face so
ecstatic, so meditation, prayer and so much yoga, so much esteem and bloodthirsty holy
ostia only see a circus contortionist. And not very good.
Religion makes you improve
It's something that you say in any circumstance: you focus on your self, observes your
breath; your look today is very prays or meditates ... You can beat you inside, be better
every day, take control of your actions, consciousness than does, reciting psalms,
breathing exercises, fasting, mantras, stretching, views ... Holy Heaven! Quanta consumed
shit! It can also get playing chess blindfolded, barefoot running, learning flamenco
singing or fishing without bait. Any exercise or activity that you force yourself to
focus, you will make a person more concentrated, we reveal the secret. But there is one
aspect that really sinister: it can also be a better person every day relating with
others, expressing their thoughts, resisting the police and faced that haunts you, you're
exploiting the boss, the priest who deludes, the master that doctrine, the father that you
submit to any comparisons that you humiliate, defeat, harass or mistreat. This strand of
resistance to injustice, rejection of tyranny, love of freedom, is that you will make a
better person. And no religion you submit it. What religion tells you, is that after your
feathers will end up dead, and bear a prize. Run that will not end well.
Religious fundamentalism
Make a thousand years, someone took too much sun, ate and drank little and went into a
trance. After a while, another more nourished and hydrated, who could read and write, he
moved to the role these delusions caused by dehydration. This sacred text, have been
translated into all that was needed to know. Rabbis, monks, clerics, Buddhas, why not hold
the books in convents and memorized. Today, centuries past, there are those who believe in
them. Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus ... They want to be the book of literacy, the code
of justice, the basis of moral engagement and the basis for the army die gutted. As if we
had enough with the state, its proposed merger with the Church more relevant. Consider
science as the devil himself, since their discovery has pilloried the dictation and
revealed by God. Disparage women, origin of sin. They hate freedom of thought and
expression, because contradictions do not support. Establish caste systems and slavery
reduce the unclean. Expulsion of infidels, irrational beliefs, intolerance, bigotry,
censorship, repression, war and atrocious punishments for dissidents, nothing is enough
for his bloody-faced God. Require blind obedience to dogma and archaic recipes, embodied
in charismatic characters or judges traditionalists. Preach the insignificance of life
compared with the pleasures of the afterlife. Like the fascists, refer for a past that
never existed. Want the complete abrogation of the individual and their political
subjugation authorities / religious, in exchange for giving them the real truth and the
answer to every question, in which he has to ask. Far from Reason, walk the world with
nothing to deviate from its path, waiting for the Apocalypse and the coming of the
Kingdom. They are a real plague, uncompromising fanatics, source of suffering for centuries.
Religion and anarchism
Anarchism respects the philosophical opinions private. There is no harm in that people
seek religious explanations to make sense of their lives. Every person has suffered a
chill in thinking about death. There are those who need the belief and another lifetime to
better withstand the pain of losing what they have. It is normal for the imagination
create myths and rituals. Religion is the result of ignorance of pain, fear and hope, but
we must raise the confidence of people and play down the death to end superstitions. The
science despite its advances is unable to provide answers to many questions ... But
religion has not given answer to anything! Such astral journey, so revealing, and no
mystic saw that the earth was a sphere! No Buddhist or Catholic priest was able to
describe the black hole or a neutron star, or a simple microbe! Only described nonsense
havens in which a heavenly choir sings all the time, what a surprise!
Science with method, with its limitations, with the criticism that can be made, is the
path of knowledge, friends and friends anarchists. Every time something moves forward on
this path, a new why. Very ignorant, we must recognize. Reply with a myth does not solve
anything, but it has to be harmful because, ultimately, you are stripped of coercion and
confined to a belief that individual was not intended to dictate to other people (whether
children or adults). If you want to believe in something outside of you or something that
is in you, voluntarily, you are right. What do you say? What do you make a journey of
introspection to discover your "I" eating fungi or hallucinogenic drugs or listening to
Tibetan music? That is, if maintain screwed as a visionary ordinary until the end of his
life? No problem, it's your life, it's your decision, but listen:
Front religion, whatever, yet it reaches a deity Reason. Liberty, the State, the Nation,
Science to Market ... or anarchy or any abstraction imposed, my skepticism is always in
need of hope. The only truth that we have absolute certainty right now is that we will
die. Then, the more reasonable it is nothing. That this view of life is hopeless, stray,
cold, meaningless? Yes, of course. And this is so? Better than yes. Losing hope, despair
and know that you have a life to live, may be the first step to preventing others live
their lives.
Part of Anarchism Basic (in Spanish) Anselmo Lorenzo Foundation, in Portuguese translation
by Fenikso Nigra.
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