My Religion, Me and Society

Growing up was a bit little funny, I tend it funny because my dad and mum would carry us to church and influence us positively and we have no guts to question their authority back then. After my adolescence years, I tend to rethink and seek for questions where I do confront my parents with questions as they do reply. I wasn’t satisfied. Engaging in my search for knowledge I began to soul-seek for the divine knowledge; I was thirsty and I need water from the fountain of knowledge to ease or quench my thirst. Herein I recall Sonnet 27 which Shakespeare has written and I quote then begins a journey in my head… it is of this verge that I title this article My Religion, Me and Society!
Religion in my perspective simply means the way back to your creator; where some of the religion gave everlasting promises of divine world and end of suffering for those worth or who had work according to their faith. But the truth of this is man is blinded by man. Many have been born and they profess and proclaim they are Christian/Muslim but the worse is they never ask their parents this question. Why do you belong to this particular religion? Scotoma! Nobody is more indoctrinated than the indoctrinator, this means that we worship the gods of our fathers. What make the matter worse is their religious subliminal bigotry and fanaticism which make the society to be in conflict because ideology and faith are always in conflict. These two cannot stay together especially in modern world. The former belief on thoughts – free thinking while the latter believes on spiritual thinking inspire by the unknown God. But out of ignorance people divulge into self-fight in the name of religion. For instance, many turmoil and crisis happening on daily basis in the globe is link to the name of religion especially the renown. In this do I recall the infamous words of Leonardo da Vinci, “blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! wrenched mortals, open your eyes!” This connotes with, God is not a religion but a spiritual bond and the word I use scotoma literally translated as blindness. If God is a religion in the history of creation He could have assign or give a specific religion to Adam and Eve but He didn’t.
All founders of religion do not profess to that religion, and the human message the proclaim goes with peace, of non-violence… of love but reverse seems to be the case. What this zealots tend to forget is that their Holy books are not fax from heaven but it is a product of man not of God. The book did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, expurgation and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the Holy book. Therefore history is a lie. It becomes a lie if you are not there when it occurs to foretell the story and it is factual when you are there; but through oratorical transmission man tend to omit, inscribe and infiltrate their perspective on the writings or folklore being pass to them, this Holy Book do not exempt itself from this mere facts. Men are too ignorant to speak the truth and are scared to speak the truth, the truth must be known because truth makes men free. Men have suppress truth in the quest for money, power, and respect and hijacking the original human message, shrouding it in an impenetrable cloak of divinity where the repercussion lies on the so-called staunch peasant or poor follower who are promise and envisage hope in afterlife to come but those who claim they are the real preacher engaged on illicit attitude on shopping-spree instead of living on virtue and the human message of the founder of their religion. And they indulge the ignorant to kill one another in the name of religion. What an insolent?
Trace the history of your religion, you will be enlightened and you will know what am talking about. My religion has to do with my mind, what my consciousness attest to be truth is truth, what it attests to be good it is good what it attest to be bad it is bad. My religion paves way for social conduct by shunning what will affect the society and its habitants. My religion portray nature as the best utmost way and accepting ones belief and ideology without procrastination irrespective of which race ones belong to; it is the religion of the enlighteners where we use logic in doing things, where we settle disputes with mouth but not with hands; where coalesce is adore, where we love another and treat them equal to us. Where we don’t seclude and aver our chest to say ours is the best religion since God gives us the word “haereticus”, which is a Latin word meaning choice.
A religion that is envelop with violence, of which tenets will one be convince to embrace wholeheartedly a religion that the followers do not practice but preach, of which benefits will it be to me. My religion is God religion. Where mindsets settle for less where temperance, humility, pains, poverty, giving, endurance and all good virtues are embrace wholeheartedly; where all evils are swallow in chakra. Where mindset is free with the surrounding and live in stoical way by embracing what is uncontrollable either good or bad. My religion, if embrace will change the globe and pave way to the divine world, if the human –nature message is adhered to and followed. My religion embraces change, any religion or being that did not embraces or attest to these facts won’t stand to face the Divine world. I’ve avowed all my life to learn about truth of things and how they have come into being. As Teabing said: our preconceive notions of scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out incongruity and overrides our eyes”. It is also known as scotoma – where the brain does it sometimes with powerful symbols. Men are blinded by the facts open your eyes! People sleeps always at daytime as well as at night, awake from your sleep. People cannot confirm the authenticity of their Holy books. Meaning that, history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated and the winner writes the history books, books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, what is history but a fable agreed upon? History is always a one sided account. This means the side which one believe becomes a matter of faith and personal exploration, then why fight over a religion which you don’t know the other side of the history. In nutshell, I oblige you to shun violence and adhere to the human message of your religion; therefore I tend to end this article with this blank verse:
In harmony of oceans, I reside
Staring at pyramidal pentagram, I precede
Of ancient artistry work occlude
Where men blend with God knowledge?

I sought for answers as did gods
God image reflected in my patchry
Attest in the facts I envisioned
If fools are made by tools then
What reality is it to be real?

Reality in the sense are wielded
By Divine; Divine if really do exist
and I envisage with hope
As I grope to reach the rope,
for human-nature pave way for the divine

Pyramidal tips is what I decipher
At night from the starry heavens
Full with sacred-envelope oven
Deception so dark, as hell fire
Lore, awakes me from ignorance deception!

Martin Ijir (c)2017