Roughly 150 years ago, President Lincoln abolished slavery in the western world by signing The Emancipation Proclamation. Some 3500 years earlier a semetic tribe enslaved by a despotic Pharaoh was offered a deal to leave Egypt and serve a gracious deity in the desert.
The events of January 1, 1863 are recorded by humans using tools they invented, paper, pens, photography, and still exist today. The events of The Exodus as believed by Orthodox Jews, was recorded by the deity himself and transmitted generation to generation as an original text that exists today.
The idea of slavery, to our modern sensibilities is abhorrent. Is servitude to a deity in a religious context a form of enslavement. What comparisons can be drawn between human bondage and serving the demands of a religious ideology.
In the more extreme (fanatical) religious communities, who claim greater authenticity and observance to the original texts, children are raised in isolation from the greater world around them. Religious training and observances, often trump the need to train these children with tools necessary to survive and contribute to the greater world. Members of these communities who feel a need to pursue secular goals or higher education are strongly discouraged and may even be threatened. By limiting choice, by keeping members of the community uneducated and ignorant of the greater world the chance of people straying from their religious obligations is less.
The attitude in many religious communities is that the secular world is the enemy. Televisions, internet is discouraged and even banned. One young lady told me that she had to sneak off to the public library to read books of english literature and science. We may argue the merits of television and the media, the point remains that people raised in a free society have the ability to choose for themselves. My wife and I choose not to have broadcast television in our home, and yet we are not enslaved to anyones ideology.
The slavery of the mind observed in a religious community is far more dangerous than most of us imagine. People when they choose to believe, allow themselves to suspend reality in the context of their faith. These people as a consequence of this decision can now accept ideas and participate in behaviors directed by the leaders of their faiths. Examples of this control will affect every aspect of these peoples lives. Believing they are acting in step with the Devine these people then become slaves to the whims of their leaders. I have seen entire communities go out and vote in a democratic election for local politicians who their religious leaders favor. What does that have to do with religious observance?
Those amongst us who reject this proposal should consider the power of ideas when people truly believe they are following a directive from god. It has been shown countless times that these people will stop at nothing in achieving their goals. Countless parents have abandoned their own children who refuse to believe like they do. While parents whose children who have murdered in the name of god are now celebrating their children’s martyrdom. What else in this world could have such a decisive effect on the deepest bonds of close family members. Even in the more moderate religious communities, choices are limited and lifestyle expectations are demanded. Once you break away from the narrow minded thought that governs your religion you become an outcast, an infidel.
The reality today, as a person tries to leave a repressive religious organizations, the family will often turn their backs and ostracize the individual. We re seeing suicides and abandoned children as a result of this horrific situation.
Besides the obvious comparisons to slavery, another question can be posed. If your religious ideology is so great and wonderful, why would there be all this fear of the free world? “These truths should be self apparent”, obviously they are not. The only truth is that religion has fooled many people for a long time. As science, technology provides greater insight and the resulting secular world becomes more sophisticated, religious leaders are going to have to fight harder to hide the truth from their followers. That fight, in the Judeo-Christian world for the most part, is no longer being fought with bullets and bloodshed. It seems for now that that they have made peace and can co-exist in free societies. “Render unto Caesar” and other statements in the Judeo-Christian literature exist which have instructed the faithful to behave more or less civil amongst the rest of us.
Big Brother Burt sees a correlation between religious ideology and enslavement of people. It is my hope and prediction that a day of enlightenment is coming when people no longer have the need to harm others with the tools of religion.
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