Theos-Talk Archives (April 1999 Message tt00183)

>In a message dated 4/22/99 10:01:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>ramadoss@eden.com writes:
>
><< Religions have caused such huge suffering over thousands of years, one
> wonders it is not time for some of us who can see the suffering cannot
> raise above the organized religions and work for the elimination of the
> suffering. At the present rate, these kinds of horrors are likely to
> continue for ever unless the average man/woman starts thinking clearly so
> that we also do not fall into the "religious" trap.
>
> Theosophy should help. >>
>
>Doss,
>
>In my opinion, religion is not really the problem here, the unequal
>distribution of wealth is. It lies at the bottom of every social dilemma the
>world has ever known. Religion becomes an opiate for the masses' when the
>"mass" is poor, hungry and suffering. Religions are organized nurtured and
>grow by giving hope and charity to the weak and the hopeless. They are the
>ones who keep religions alive and strong. Blind faith in a certain belief
>system is the only choice that ignorance can make. Meanwhile, the struggle
>for power and more wealth that goes on at the top of the pecking order has
>nothing to do with religion, only as it serves the purpose of those who are
>expanding their greed and selfishness.
>
>Louis
>

Well.... religion is a serious problem today as much as in the past.  We
take our religious beliefs so seriously that we are ready to kill for them,
or let others kill for us.  What are the churches doing to stop the madness
that is happening in Kosovo?  I haven't seen any serious diplomatic
activity or any public declarations made by the hierarchy of the Orthodox
Church, or the Roman Catholic Church, or any other Christian Church, to
condemn the genocide that has been going on for years in the Balkans.  They
should all be sending delegations to Belgrade.

There is something *very* wrong with the way we practice religion and that
includes our religious leaders.

Rudy




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