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Religion is always a common ground in every faith. And faith according to Webster, is a complete acceptance of a certain truth that cannot be demonstrated or proved by the process of logical truth. In short, an acceptance that leads to trust. And trust is a matter of spiritual security concerning ones belief.
The past has given us this concept of being psychologically balanced under the guidance of a certain divinity. Primeval man in prehistoric times displayed such enormous beliefs. They tend to relate the unnatural with a certain deity. A deity that will make their lives meaningful and make them continue to grow. The spiritual confidence is the result of how they mold their ways of life, their culture. That the coming generations and we will be able to inherit and continue these traditional systems of humanity.
Spiritual confidence is a simple reason why we wanted to feel the worth of contentment. That in the progress of our daily lives, we can sleep clearly at night, we can exhibit and express good deeds”, we can walk right and smile to every people we meet, and we can do everything that we wanted to. Yes, everything we wanted to, but in accordance with the canon of our religions. Indeed, there is no reason for us to debate the aims of religion, we can clearly see that it wanted to unify us in proper order, governed and ruled. It is said, “….even the lowliest of the beast knows order, order is the purpose of intellect”, it means that it is better to live under the rules of law than exist in the fires of anarchy, because certainly anarchy has no intellectual purpose.
But, being governed doesn’t mean we have no freedom to practice our rights of inquiry. That we just have to do what these religious authorities wanted us to do. Now, this kind of inquiry is a sort of a religious sense, meaning, a cautious analysis of the purpose of the canons and laws of religion. We are not talking here about the laws of the Scriptures of the world, but it is about the laws within the roof of religion made by MAN.
Religious sense is a conscious perception or an inquired awareness on how we judge our own faiths and beliefs. Why do we stand for it? We have to contemplate on three basic factors that we may or may not ever try to evaluate. These are 1) authority; 2) fear; and 3) tolerance. We will present these factors not in terms of solving and answering the questions and arguments that may rise in our exhibition of discourse. But its primary purpose is only to incline our senses to question and magnify the real truth behind the laws of religion. We must try to open our consciousness to concept, because *an open mind maintains balance. *
As human beings, we have this instinct of being capable of having the right and power to command and be obeyed. This is called authority. It had played a role in the saga of humanity for centuries. We intend to believe religious authorities on what they have fabricated concerning the laws they implement. But, why do most of us never try to examine the nature and origin of these laws? Who are the persons responsible for their authenticity? Are they capable and knowledgeable in creating such rules? What are the standards that make these rules correct and reliable? These are only questions that we have to discourse as long as we breathe in the surface of this world. But, the greatest above all these questions is; who has the authority? There may be millions of possible response but no definite answers.
Fear is said to be an instinctive emotion aroused by impending or seeming danger. In the context of religious inquiry, many of us are scared in questioning these rules, because we are afraid of unthinkable and imaginative consequences. Basically, if there is an existence of law in a certain society, there is always on equivalent punishment for disobeying it. From the past and even today, fear has tried to chain us not to examine religious rules. We are afraid of social condemnation. We are afraid to change and modify our concepts. We are afraid if we change our programmed routines. These allegations may lead us to question ourselves, why is there a necessity for us to fear? Some of us will say, “nothing will happen to me if I carry on with my beliefs. I was given this privilege and it is done for many centuries.” This will imply an assertion of tolerance. That the speaker ignored to examine intellectually the misconceptions of the canons he believed as righteous. Indeed, we tolerate because we think it never affected us in our daily lives, but unconsciously it does. Try to stop and investigate our religious systems personally. Maybe we will find out that there are plenty of flaws inside these authorities. Now, why do we have to administer an act of tolerance? We all have our own answers.
These three basic factors are presented to bring up questions to be analyzed further on our own personal speculations. That in the process of our human existence, we tried to answer these sceptical queries and maybe someday, we are going to be able to authenticate absolute concepts concerning the laws of religion. And we may be free of lies and falsity of our religious realities.
Question reality……
The past has given us this concept of being psychologically balanced under the guidance of a certain divinity. Primeval man in prehistoric times displayed such enormous beliefs. They tend to relate the unnatural with a certain deity. A deity that will make their lives meaningful and make them continue to grow. The spiritual confidence is the result of how they mold their ways of life, their culture. That the coming generations and we will be able to inherit and continue these traditional systems of humanity.
Spiritual confidence is a simple reason why we wanted to feel the worth of contentment. That in the progress of our daily lives, we can sleep clearly at night, we can exhibit and express good deeds”, we can walk right and smile to every people we meet, and we can do everything that we wanted to. Yes, everything we wanted to, but in accordance with the canon of our religions. Indeed, there is no reason for us to debate the aims of religion, we can clearly see that it wanted to unify us in proper order, governed and ruled. It is said, “….even the lowliest of the beast knows order, order is the purpose of intellect”, it means that it is better to live under the rules of law than exist in the fires of anarchy, because certainly anarchy has no intellectual purpose.
But, being governed doesn’t mean we have no freedom to practice our rights of inquiry. That we just have to do what these religious authorities wanted us to do. Now, this kind of inquiry is a sort of a religious sense, meaning, a cautious analysis of the purpose of the canons and laws of religion. We are not talking here about the laws of the Scriptures of the world, but it is about the laws within the roof of religion made by MAN.
Religious sense is a conscious perception or an inquired awareness on how we judge our own faiths and beliefs. Why do we stand for it? We have to contemplate on three basic factors that we may or may not ever try to evaluate. These are 1) authority; 2) fear; and 3) tolerance. We will present these factors not in terms of solving and answering the questions and arguments that may rise in our exhibition of discourse. But its primary purpose is only to incline our senses to question and magnify the real truth behind the laws of religion. We must try to open our consciousness to concept, because *an open mind maintains balance. *
As human beings, we have this instinct of being capable of having the right and power to command and be obeyed. This is called authority. It had played a role in the saga of humanity for centuries. We intend to believe religious authorities on what they have fabricated concerning the laws they implement. But, why do most of us never try to examine the nature and origin of these laws? Who are the persons responsible for their authenticity? Are they capable and knowledgeable in creating such rules? What are the standards that make these rules correct and reliable? These are only questions that we have to discourse as long as we breathe in the surface of this world. But, the greatest above all these questions is; who has the authority? There may be millions of possible response but no definite answers.
Fear is said to be an instinctive emotion aroused by impending or seeming danger. In the context of religious inquiry, many of us are scared in questioning these rules, because we are afraid of unthinkable and imaginative consequences. Basically, if there is an existence of law in a certain society, there is always on equivalent punishment for disobeying it. From the past and even today, fear has tried to chain us not to examine religious rules. We are afraid of social condemnation. We are afraid to change and modify our concepts. We are afraid if we change our programmed routines. These allegations may lead us to question ourselves, why is there a necessity for us to fear? Some of us will say, “nothing will happen to me if I carry on with my beliefs. I was given this privilege and it is done for many centuries.” This will imply an assertion of tolerance. That the speaker ignored to examine intellectually the misconceptions of the canons he believed as righteous. Indeed, we tolerate because we think it never affected us in our daily lives, but unconsciously it does. Try to stop and investigate our religious systems personally. Maybe we will find out that there are plenty of flaws inside these authorities. Now, why do we have to administer an act of tolerance? We all have our own answers.
These three basic factors are presented to bring up questions to be analyzed further on our own personal speculations. That in the process of our human existence, we tried to answer these sceptical queries and maybe someday, we are going to be able to authenticate absolute concepts concerning the laws of religion. And we may be free of lies and falsity of our religious realities.
Question reality……