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A Religion of Walkers

 We are designed to change, and not just our bodies but also our minds and beliefs. Not to do so leads to suffering, for it is the most unnatural sin against human nature to seek to remain the same. 

We see this absurdity in those who use copious amount of Botox and plastic surgery to stay young. 

Yet those who fear to change their mind cling to the ideas and "beliefs" of the past and justify doing so as honoring tradition.  

If it makes changing one's mind a sin punishable by eternal damnation, honoring tradition is simply the Botox of beliefs.

For those who refuse to change their beliefs are like people refusing to drive a car because they believe walking is a sacred tradition, because "that's what Jesus did.". And then they blame the suffering of having to walk everywhere on everyone who drives a car. 

It's like a religion of walkers who see drivers as devils. The priest's job in such a religion is to convince the walkers they're right, and will be rewarded in heaven for walking, and that the drivers will all be tortured mercilessly in hell.

Sure, the priest has to drive everywhere to preach the salvation of the walkers, but that's okay... because while all other drivers are damned to hell, the priest who drives to sell the religion of walkers is on a mission from God.

And God can do anything he wants and remain morally justified, from driving a car to murdering everyone on the planet to torturing for all eternity anyone who drives a car, or an airplane, or a space rocket. 

 


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