I feel like it might shed some light on how far and how far religious fanatics have gone and are literally controlling and disciplining if one is seen to deviate from the official line. Due to the belief in miracle and performing a miracle as the central ethos of their mysticism, they have become willing and do not hesitate to deploy any and all known gadgets and know how to perversely influence, coerce, dominate and subjugate everyone and everyone. each real. and perceived as deviant One can scream aloud and there is no help or even sympathy despite constitutional guarantees of individual rights to worship or not worship, to belong or not to belong at all.

I believe this letter serves as a supplement to Daniel Dennet’s article on religion in “The Guardian UK Thursday 16th July 2009”. Although I disagree with his ideas about what religion and spirituality should be and how it should be practiced, I do agree with his description of the evil practices of some and even the overwhelming majority of religious authorities. organized. Organized religion is about material interest and class and group fulfillment, not the inner search for truth and individual and social personal fulfillment despite the bold representation of oneself. As for making the most vital decisions of our lives in consultation with our inner voices, I cannot understand the objections to that, as we all make our vital life and death decisions in consultation with our inner voices and I see no exception to that. . But if our inner voices somehow become the inner voices of the authorities of our religion, as is often the case, concern is justified.

The organization presupposes classification, professionalism, specialization and division of labor on the basis of this stratification. Is it any wonder then that, like all socially stratified structures, those at the top end of the structure have an interest in mystifying the practice and shrouding it in secrets in defense of their acquired or bestowed status. If any irrationality in any social structure is condoned or encouraged, there is no need to explain that it could only be by those who can and are in a position to do so and it is clear who they might be that needs no explanation. The one important note to make here, however, is that all hierarchical social structures are liable to encourage acts of irrationality and irrational exuberance to varying degrees (the curse of the division of labor and social stratification).

How these religious institutions and social structures gave rise to science and the scientific institution and the latter’s continuing inability to find answers to the perplexing fundamental questions of the beginning, present existence, and future destiny of ourselves and everything else; it had engendered and continues to engender the ever-continuing appeal of the practice of religion and spirituality. The truth of spirituality has been for Melina and I am sure it will continue for others in an effort to find in oneself the truth and the self that is absent in the material and scientific world out there, here and everywhere. That search in the gaps by itself between the material realities of yesterday, today and tomorrow, what we can reach only by our intuition and what we can only imagine and could not quantify and qualify by all the other ways and means still available will always attract to spirituality individually and collectively.