The end of all religion…

“…why do you have to waste time every Sunday and expect God to give you a blessing….for tithing and shit…”

Evidence that they do indeed understand “cause and effect.”

“You don’t have to give God money to be in good standing with him….so why do we need these stupid tools of control around anymore?”

Evidence that they still don’t understand who really benefits from the established systems.

The concept is aptly and concisely described, thus: “slave now, pay later.”

If you believe there is something you will gain, you will be easily lead into doing nearly-free labor for the super-rich… but then, after all that, you’ll die and get nothing, because god isn’t real.

People need to realize and agree that it is their own personal responsibility to make better decisions, not the will of some “god,” and that by making better decisions, they will have more power to control what should be better controlled, and will accordingly gain benefits from the requirement of effort in so doing.

They have to “believe” that changing their ways will make a worthwhile difference, even if only to themselves, but preferably, with the understanding that if everyone cooperated toward better ends, the means would be less damaging, and therefore make the world a better place.

But i haven’t figured out the part about making people care about making the world a better place; i think we have to first solve the “trapped in survival mode” wage-slavery conundrum, which is no small task.

It’s going to require a revolution. I doubt i’ll live long enough to see it, but i feel it would be “worthwhile,” to contribute anything i can, toward the correct changes. I would like to think that my actions could eventually result in giving lots of people chances they would otherwise never have, that i never had, and would prevent lots of problems, while subsequently and significantly decreasing the requirement of solutions, and effort spent on things that don’t ever need to happen in the first place. Prevent the problems, avoid the requirement of their solutions, as well as the suffering caused by unnecessary problems which cannot be effectively solved.

People want to believe there’s more than this, because this sucks.

But at the same time, if you *truly* believe there is a better afterlife awaiting you, what’s keeping you here? Fear? Yes. You believe that by causing your own demise, you will be disqualified from “heaven.”

Ergo: anyone who believes an actual god is real, and believes they will “go to heaven” after death, would be out there fiercely confronting every potentially fatal obstacle, “doing god’s work,” with zero fear of death.

But then you’d be a tool of the church, just as the church intended, which was the whole point of religions and bibles in the first place.

If you think this is all there is, you’ll have a significantly increased desire to make the best and most of it, because it’s your only chance to ever be or do anything at all.

One of those mindsets tends to yield a better and more “present” appreciation of life, while the other tends to result in being oblivious and allowing oneself to be used toward the purpose of perpetuating the problems which most deeply affect the most people.