The Circle of Nature & The Square of Religion

I have said before that, if nature comes from God, then religion comes from the devil. In fact, you could even say that the greatest devil in all of Christianity is God himself, which is the truth, even though every Christian thinks the God they worship is as perfect as they hope one day to be, once they die and are rewarded for pretending to know "God's will" better than everyone else, and all by interpreting a book that said exactly the opposite of what all Christians today think it says.

For the Bible is not a story about a man named Jesus who just also happened to be a God, but about how man is treated by his Gods, for daring to question their wisdom and benevolence.  It is not the story of a man who was a god, but a man who dared to question those who claimed to "believe" their religion came from God.

Jesus is simply the plagiarized story of Socrates, and sold as the ultimate story of religion, rather than of philosophy.  And as the former has only ever sought to call it's "beliefs" the only truth, the latter was about a man who challenged people's "beliefs" about the truth, with the truth itself. 

Hence, religion conflates the truth of something with a "belief" about that same thing, and the two are almost always mirrored opposites, but which are chiral in nature to each other. That is, while the truth and religious belief often seem to reflect each other, it only does so like the left hand reflects the right hand. 

The person who is deconstructing the religious "beliefs" they live in, therefore, in order to construct a more accurate understanding of the truth - when a "belief" and the truth are chiral opposites, like our left hand is to our right -  is engaged in an act of self destruction. 

Why? 

Because the "self" we think we are, is the one that was "intelligently designed" for us by all the religions that came before, and all the religions that people worship even now, which include not just gods but money and biology and science and war. 

Like Micheal Angelo carving the statue of David, which must no doubt have greatly appealed to David's vanity in heaven,  the nature of one must be chiseled free from the block of the other. 

Put another way, religion is a square, and nature is a circle, which is why the devotees of the former have always had such a difficult time fitting one into the other. 

The problem, of course, is that most people simply accept that they are the problem, as their religions teach them from birth - starting with circumcision, as a way of pleasing an immaterial entity by dulling the pleasures of the flesh - and never the religions they subscribe to with such passionate certainty and devotion. 

Of course by believing that it is always ourselves that is the problem, and never the religions we subscribe to, we end up spending as much money at church as we do at the pharmacy or the liquor store. And exactly like what we get at the pharmacy and the liquor store, the thing we rely on to fix ourselves, is also a form of destroying ourselves. 

And always in the service of one religion or another.