Religion belongs to the people. Does that blow your mind? No? I am saying that it belongs out of the hands of institutions like Churches and into the hands of the people as a whole. Is that mind-blowing? To throw out centuries of the tradition of having an organization tell people what they should believe?
What churches fail to do is giving people the option of believing what they want. Their rhetoric is full of "You MUST believe." Religion should be open and free. Each person should be free to believe what they want without being told what they have to believe in. Churches, along with most religious institutions, do not seek the spiritual fulfillment of its members. They seek only to force people into believing in what they do. Not all churches are like this. Unitarian Universalist churches address most of the problems.
The real victim here is children. They have no option of choosing what they believe. Their God-given reason is suppressed in favor of the Parent's validation of their own beliefs. We do not let them believe, we FORCE them. This is not okay. Children lack the most basic religious education. Why? Well, if everyone chose their own religion, free of force, not many people would choose Christianity. Churches would rather suppress children's rights than risk its own destruction. I guess, from an objective point of view, this is in the Church's self interests. However, this would not be the first time Christianity conflicted with basic morality .
Religious institutions could still work. If they were places for like-minded people to have an open, educated discussion about religion, then Churches would be okay. If they no longer forced people to believe, but instead allowed people to choose what they believe. However, this conflicts with too many religious institutions' goal: The supremacy of their religion, at whatever cost. Even if that cost is the intellectual freedom of nearly EVERY child born in the U.S.
It is not only Churches that seek to control our religion. Some politicians seem inclined to preach. What they fail to understand is that they represent US. They are not being payed to tell us what we should believe. They have NO RIGHT to enforce their religion on us. This extends to priests too. They have no right to use the government as a pulpit or a police division to tell us how we should live. They are not supposed to tell us what we should believe. They are our REPRESENTATIVES, not our priests.
What churches fail to do is giving people the option of believing what they want. Their rhetoric is full of "You MUST believe." Religion should be open and free. Each person should be free to believe what they want without being told what they have to believe in. Churches, along with most religious institutions, do not seek the spiritual fulfillment of its members. They seek only to force people into believing in what they do. Not all churches are like this. Unitarian Universalist churches address most of the problems.
The real victim here is children. They have no option of choosing what they believe. Their God-given reason is suppressed in favor of the Parent's validation of their own beliefs. We do not let them believe, we FORCE them. This is not okay. Children lack the most basic religious education. Why? Well, if everyone chose their own religion, free of force, not many people would choose Christianity. Churches would rather suppress children's rights than risk its own destruction. I guess, from an objective point of view, this is in the Church's self interests. However, this would not be the first time Christianity conflicted with basic morality .
Religious institutions could still work. If they were places for like-minded people to have an open, educated discussion about religion, then Churches would be okay. If they no longer forced people to believe, but instead allowed people to choose what they believe. However, this conflicts with too many religious institutions' goal: The supremacy of their religion, at whatever cost. Even if that cost is the intellectual freedom of nearly EVERY child born in the U.S.
It is not only Churches that seek to control our religion. Some politicians seem inclined to preach. What they fail to understand is that they represent US. They are not being payed to tell us what we should believe. They have NO RIGHT to enforce their religion on us. This extends to priests too. They have no right to use the government as a pulpit or a police division to tell us how we should live. They are not supposed to tell us what we should believe. They are our REPRESENTATIVES, not our priests.
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