Religion

There is no doubt that the country in which I reside has a society built on Christianity. While this is not an entirely negative concept, it does have the downside of sidelining other world religions. The president is sworn in with his hand on the Bible. A prayer is said before state meetings. What do these incidents teach us? Essentially the other religions are slaves, forced to look on as the masters execute their collective will. Faith, when properly applied, instills its believers with morals and values, and is essentially beneficial. It is when these values are skewed or utilized by individuals to accomplish not entirely honorable ends that religion itself gets a negative reputation. That said, no institution would survive without support from believers and followers. It’s here that I’d like to mention the Christian rationale towards slavery. White supremacists argued for slavery as a reprise for those less genealogically inclined to succeed than others.

How then, has this view changed in the present day? A Supreme Being, communicating to a select few through a translated book handed down through the years is controlling our society. The Christian God made man in his image, according to his followers. Is it then not possible, perhaps, that this god along with the thousands of gods worshiped throughout the millennia, were created in the image of Man? Are we, as humans, not seeking to deify and exemplify the human qualities we find admirable, and in fact personifying those qualities into gods? With this rationale, we might begin to more accurately dissect the true values of American society.