The problem with religion is simple: a description cannot be true, cannot be god, cannot be righteous, and can never be anything like reality. In fact, each -language- is a model of reality, and there is no language we can speak or write that bears much resemblance to the real at all. If there were, it would not be a language.

Religions are language peculiarly modulated to produce effects that used to be limited to group interactions only. But later, authors ‘transmitted’ some of these features into text. The result was weaponized cultural viruses that take over entire human populations with stories about God that are actually more ridiculous than action-figures, and then have these cultures attack each other in order to replicate the damn story again.

How the dideldy-fuck could that have something to do with God?

It can’t, really. It has to do with us, and our strange and misunderstood realtionships to -language and knowledge-… those two strange curses we picked up way back in Eden.

Many of the most popular religions specifically stipulate that, not only is the opposite true, but God demands it! This would be like my shoe demanding that ‘it created my body’ and my body ‘must be dead like me’ before putting it on, since the shoe is at once dead, and ‘the only true foot’ — and feels threatened by the vitality of my body. Of course, this is neither god, nor my shoe. It is, in fact, an aspect of the Left Hemisphere of the brain. This is precisely the same aspect that, as Cain, in Genesis, slaughters his brother and then lies like all get out about it… to God.

Religion is a gambit that can only succeed through the desperation imposed by torture, rape or deprivation … coupled with hypnosis. And when it does, rape is the result. That said, I feel fairly certain many of our greatest heroes and heroines suffered thus, and even found within it a vehicle for growth or true holiness. But this was because -they were angels stationed in hell-, not because religion was holy.

This game really has to come to an end. Such a crude vehicle for ‘growth’ was outgrown after its first few uses. Almost anything else would be better, more true… and more human. Except machines.

Except machines.