Rant for religious (and other) sanity.

If some, or many, are *still* interested in a "religion" because of the innate need we have for explanations and consolation about the unknown, how about getting real and doing some actual research as to the origins and morphings of christianism and the phenomenology of religion as such? There are, you know, functional transformative protocols based on the actual nature of human awareness or Awareness as such. And there are very good arguments and possible histories that would make the original teachings of a Jesus, Jeheshua, or Isa based on those, to begin with, including words attributed to him in that beleaguered and bastardized collection of books called the Bible. It is highly probable that it is those teachings that have been adulterated into the sad multiplicity of christianisms we are forced to deal with today.

The problem, of course, is emotional addiction to a "way" which was for most deeply inculcated into unconscious conformity. There are also ways to deal with that. This is why we are coming to see that merely continuing in one's way of upbringing is an abdication of one's actual heritage as a human. Our work, past the touted "age of reason" is to grow up, wake up, and clean up. But what happens is that we are strongly encouraged and even coerced by several levels of pressure to continue in our trained ways of believing, without examining them. And so we have society behaving like an auto-immune disease, and some asking for forced exterior control. That has never worked and always ends in disaster. We will either mature as a Race, or perish with all the current systems of life on Earth.

|At the very least, if one is to keep their religion, do yourself the favor of reading two books which will aid in some perspective in the matter. One is an application of the discipline of General Semantics to religious thought. It is a somewhat contemporary book by Gina Cerminara and is often used in comparative religion courses. It is called by the awkward and misleading title of "Insights for the Age of Aquarius: a handbook for religious sanity". The other is more thorough look at our human nature than most of us have derived from simply getting older as we do. It is Ken Wilber's "A Brief History of Everything". I very highly recommend both.