Descending Spiral of Power-Loving-Religion

I channel my inner MLK Jr to say that the ultimate weakness of power-loving-religion is that it is a descending spiral, creating the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

Through power-loving-religion, you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor can you establish the truth of power-loving-religion. Through power-loving-religion, you may get rid of your guilty, but you cannot get rid of the guilt of your religion. Hierarchical-religion only stirs up more hierarchy.

So it goes.

Turning to this again and again only increases the chance that we turn to this again and again, adding thicker fog to a sunless sky. We must have an end of this kind of religion or this kind of religion will be our end. The worshipping of “the god on our side” is an arrogant, pagan, barbaric (but thoroughly contemporary) endeavor.

I suppose, along with A.N. Whitehead, “that even the world itself could not contain the bones of those slaughtered because of men intoxicated by its attraction.” Power-loving-religion cannot drive out power-loving- religion. Only an evolution of religion can do such a thing.

Say that God is love.
This is an evolution of religion.

from Theology of Consent