Hostage of Dolour

I had a comment on my Into Kotaom Youtube channel; an atheist mantra, if you will: “Religion will fall!” And while I’d wholly support such a revolutionary shibboleth because Man as an animal would be unshackled and at liberty to finally achieve the potential of humanity, I do sadly doubt that this will occur any time soon. If ever.

Again, while I unreservedly support the dissolution of orthodox religion the world over, this would of course present certain widespread and panoramic difficulties.

Imagine that, by some revolution, the constructs of our religions were dismantled in some wholesale action. However, because our laws rest in an inextricable bondage to our religions almost irrespective of which nation we inhabit, these too would firstly be disengaged from the tenets which they uphold and which uphold them. Were the dismantling of the religious orthodoxy on some scientific grounds for example, there could be no justification for the indexing of any human acts as either “good” or “bad”. Beyond religion, every human act would be simply unindexed. It would be an act of human nature. We would, in effect be bound [and I use the term loosely] by one abiding law only: the law of Man; the law of human nature wherein everything is permissable, similar to the tenets of Thelema: Do as thou wilt.

Of course in the ensuing murderous animalistic chaos, many would perish. Production would cease, ownership of any possession [even life itself] would become a dangerous occupation. Plainly this is not a path that we should voluntarily seek, is it? We would certainly find ourselves, initially at least, dropped into an existence of pure chaos. Yet, to make a point, how dissimilar is this from the oppressive pious affectations of many of our current religious nations? Were we freed of our religions and our interdependent judicial markers and concomitant corrections, the ensuing pure chaos would take us back to a correspondingly pure neo-Darwinian era. Barbaric, some would say. Yet at least we would gain a new fundamental level of human integrity, and [in my view] eventually a parity with each other. Contrast that with the capricious domination that is both permitted and applauded in many zealously religious nations whereby an individual can be castigated, killed even for missing a religious protocol, or worse, on the whim of almost any sufficiently fervent religion-backed adherent. Currently in fact, many of our most indoctrinated religious nations shelter the most abyssmal animalistic chaos. At least if we were dropped headfirst into the neo-Darwinian, de-religionised version of chaos, we would be at liberty to stake our own claim by our wit and will and by our own merit alone and not because of our incorrect interpretation of some anachronistic fictional texts.

Naturally though, neither situation is preferable. So I’d agree on principle with the Youtube comment, “Religion will fall!” yet with a caveat: “Dismantlers, be certain you can survive the fallout.”