The religious mind

I have to admit I’m obsessed with the ways the religious mind works. The way they use language, and distort reality to fit their view of it. For me watching it work is like picking at a sore, it hurts and it doesn’t do the sore any good but I just can’t stop poking it. This is why I started this blog to clear this junk out of my head I don’t except anyone to read this and change their views but maybe I can spark just a little tiny thought in all that belief.

When the religious talk about magical things like miracles or the “power of pray” whatever the facts are they’re twisted around to always to reinforce the belief. As in the case of the “power of pray”. If someone is ill and they get better after others pray for them then it’s proof of the “power of pray” but if they don’t then it’s because God must have some other agenda that we just can’t see or understand yet.

I’ve come up with this little scenario to illustrator how I see the way the religious mind operates.

If I were to come to you the true believer and told you I had discovered this thing, a document, an artefact, whatever and that this thing was absolute, undeniable proof of God and everything you believed in and that even the most cynical atheist, like me, when confronted with this thing would become a believer and except the truth of God’s power. I believe the responds would be something like. “That’s wonderful this is something we have to share with the whole world right away so everyone can know the truth, it’s a gift from God.”

But if I came to you, that same true believer, and said I have discovered this thing, a document, an artefact, whatever and it is absolute, undeniable proof that God is nothing but an invention of the human mind and that even you if you were confronted with this thing you would have to except the truth of this fact. The responds I believe would be. “This thing must be destroyed immediately before anyone else sees it and before it can turn even one person away from the truth of God’s power, there is evil behind this thing.”

The sad thing, for me, if any religious or true believer should read this many won’t even get the point because in their reality there is only one “truth” and everything must be view in away to fit that “truth”.

An afterthought or post script if you like.

Some more liberal religious person might say there is more than one “truth” in the world. But all those other “truths” are only true if they come back to God say under a different name or belief systems so there really is only one truth for the religious mind.