I'm Right! You're Wrong!

We Live in a world that is in no short supply of people that think they have it all figured out. This is especially true for those who are part of the ever changing "spiritualism" motif that pervades our society. It's a common theme among the religious and "spiritual" that the path they study is the right path. In fact, i would venture as so far to say that this idea is the corner stone of the nature of religion.



"He is God, the One and Only; God, the Eternal, Absolute; He begets not, nor is He
begotten; And there is none like unto Him. ~"Quran -surah 112

“Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through me.”~Bible-John 14:6

The examples like this are numerous, but you only need to look at the practitioners of the faith to see how prevalent it is in our society. The very act of congregation, the meeting of like minded individuals, this allows them to convene and continue to convince themselves and each other that they are correct. This is its purpose, to keep the believers constantly reassuring each other of things they know would be forgotten otherwise.

If it were not for the concepts that are repeatedly taught, the religions of this world would die. What is the reason for this? because we no longer have a way to make people study their selected moral structure if we don't repeatedly force it down each others throats. Take a moment to ask ANY religious leader, and ask them how fast their particular morals will last if people stopped studying them.

"You Must constantly be in the will of Allahs teachings"
"You must vigilantly seek the face of jesus"
"nirvana is reached with dedication, study creates dedication"

Now, i can probaly guess your biggest complaint with this, you are probably saying that this is true with all things. if we were talking about facts and figures, then you would be correct. Lack of study makes you forget things, but we are talking about moral values, ethical teachings.

When was the last time that you almost killed a person, but stoped because someone read the "Murder 1" statute to you in the last minute? When was the last time you had to verify that stealing an old ladys social security check might be immoral?

You know its illegal, and i am hoping that the majorty of people arent robbing and killing other people only because it will get you in trouble. We dont need constant reminders of how we should behave, we all know how we should behave, but none of us do it. Is this because we dont know better, or that we are simply lazy?

The other Part, and one i too found myself to be interesting are the more relaxed religions, hindusim, neo-paganism, etc.. The ones that claim that faith is personal, and that all roads lead to the same heaven. That Moral philosophy, theology, it all depends on what suits you. This i must confess had me entranced for a while, it gave me hope that a world that still holds blind faith as a good trait, can still manage to converge and make the world better.

the reality is though, that even though they endorse all religions and faiths, they still claim themselves as the best. dont belive me, ask them why they are not christian, or jewish? if all is okay, why did they choose that path? the answer that they will give, if they are honest, is that the path they chose was right for what they hold as true. Even if they endorse religions that claim that it is the sole religion for the world, they ignore that part, because they disagree with some key tenants of all other religions.

All of these people are right, just ask them. They are also all wrong, just ask them about eachother. So we are left with Most of the world, following their own path towards universal truths, and yet each universal truth that each religion teaches is no more universal then AA batteries. it fits in alot of places, but there are just points that its not the best fit. So we have all of these truth seekers, going in their own seperate directions.

It is overwhelmingly true that most people seem to want to find this out on some level, but with all of these directions, how can we find the actual truths of this universe, if there are any? That is where faith needs to end and logic needs to begin. we need to constantly try to negate what we know now, not struggle with all of our strength to hold on to ideas that no longer help us.