Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Overcoming the Other Loud Voices

Not all the campaign is with the scientific minds. It contains less than ten percent of the effort. There are more powerful sectors of the society to fight the idea of "Messiah" resurrection. Most of them are from previous religions. Many have a legacy of religion in their minds without practicing a religion or without being sacrilegious or atheist. If they are asked they claim themselves as, say, a Christian. Sometimes they say that their parents were belonged to such and such religion but they only believe in God or a super gracious being as the God. Many are deeply drenched in superstitions rather than being religious and normally the boundary between two is vague and blurred for them. There are fights inside them that which is the orthodoxy of religion and which are the superstitions from ancient stories and paganism among them. For a scientific minded atheist there is no difference between religion and superstition but inside the doctrine of religion such a boundary exist and is the subject of much controversy. For example, a monist theologian might become philosophically skeptical of the existence of the material world based on the idea that the Almighty abstract God why needs a material world to exist and how matter might emanate from the all abstract mind of God. Then he knows conceiving of the God as an old man on a throne a superstition of commoner masses and a blasphemy if that idea proposed by an educated priest. All the existing religions are based on the idea that their religion is the most perfect and ultimate instruction of God and they have a scientific positivist kind of reason for that as that after their prophet or messenger human beings have entered in a phase of being mature and grown up enough such that no further direct contact of human with the God is necessary anymore. Only if a bad happens to the faith it is because the followers do not carefully follow the rules as originally advertised by the God and their messenger and are written in their scripts. And, they assume, if they do that they can overcome to other religions and blasphemies and injustice that has gripped the earth.

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