Why Don't We Follow Traditional Religions?

 

Introduction

We have all grown up surrounded by the great traditional religions. They are present in our laws, temples, holidays, and even in our family relationships. However, a fundamental question arises: why have we stopped believing in their dogmas and claims of truth in order to embrace Állanism?

I. Challenging Traditional Arguments

Traditional religious teachings often rely on four main claims to justify themselves:

1. The Antiquity of the Text

"A text must be true because it has existed for many years and has been passed down through generations."

However, the age of an idea does not prove its truth. If the age of a teaching were proof of its validity, shamanism or early animism should be accepted as the absolute truth because they predate any organized religion. Antiquity explains the history of a belief, but it does not prove its divine origin.

2. The Preservation of Texts

"The teachings are the word of God because they have been preserved without alteration throughout the centuries."

However, preserving a message does not prove that its source is divine. A text written by human beings can be copied accurately for generations without its content thereby being validated. Furthermore, historical scholarship shows that various writings have undergone editing, selection, and the removal of texts to serve the interests of specific periods.

3. The Aesthetic Quality of Texts

"The poetic, inspiring, and harmonious perfection of these writings demonstrates their divine origin."

However, aesthetic appreciation is subjective and depends on cultural context and individual sensibility. Human beings have always been capable of producing extraordinary literary works without the need for supernatural revelation. Admiring the beauty of a work is understandable, but turning that admiration into proof of divine origin has no foundation in itself.

4. The Morality of Texts

"The teachings contain the perfect and definitive moral code for humanity."

However, upon ethical examination, many passages present morally questionable precepts, such as the glorification of holy wars, class divisions, slavery, violent punishment, and female subordination, including severe restrictions, unequal rights, and practices such as asymmetrical polygamy.

II. The Social Consequences

The value of a teaching can also be assessed through its consequences. Throughout history, various religious interpretations have been used to legitimize female subordination, racism, slavery, violence, imperialism, and social inequality.

Furthermore, certain dogmas have promoted asceticism, physical mortification, and the passive acceptance of poverty and oppression, discouraging the pursuit of social and economic progress.

III. What Does This Reveal?

Faced with so many precepts and their consequences, we are confronted with three possibilities regarding how God is presented to us:

• Human Invention: The image of God presented in these texts is a creation of ancient societies themselves, reflecting the fears, privileges, and values of the context in which it was developed.

• Corruption of the Message: The deity exists, but the original message has been distorted and manipulated over the centuries by human interests, corrupting the original text.

• Moral Incompatibility: The deity described in these texts did, in fact, command such atrocities. In that case, the image of God presented in these writings contradicts the idea of a perfect being.

If a just and benevolent God exists, His nature would not require violence, cruelty, or oppression to assert itself, nor would He demand that human beings wage wars in His name. After all, He is omnipotent and needs no one to make His will prevail on Earth.

Conclusion

"Thus, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit."

After this analysis, we can conclude that many teachings fail to provide satisfactory answers for the contemporary world and have failed to promote a better world for everyone. Furthermore, they are not in harmony with the Eternal Law that exists within human beings.

Indeed! Every human being possesses a conscience, an Innate Law that is already written within us. Let us consider a simple example:

"Every human being feels indignant when subjected to injustice, belittled, mistreated, violated, or robbed."

A person may even accept or justify such actions against others, or practice them personally. However, that same person becomes deeply indignant when these things happen to them, to people close to them, or to their family members, because justice is already part of their very nature and was placed there by God.

Furthermore, reason, that is, the ability to understand, argue, and recognize logic was also created by the Eternal and is innate in human beings.

Therefore, opposing the critical examination of conscience, open discussion, and research is also contrary to the message of the true God, who wrote His Law in the human conscience.

Thus, if a message preaches something different or teaches, or has taught, practices that violate these divine laws, such as violence, the degradation of women, enslavement, and injustice against others, its teachings diverge from the true Law that already exists within us and depart from the will of the Creator, regardless of how ancient, well-preserved, or beautiful the text may be.

Therefore, we choose to follow the Innate Law that exists within us, because it is far more natural and proves itself true through the fact that we are all born with this Law.

We all know what is right and wrong, regardless of culture or historical period, and it was the use of reason that enabled us to achieve numerous advances in our world. All of this is connected to what we recognize within our own conscience.

"May the Eternal bless us with ever-greater understanding."

Aisi~

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