Just Depends

vet4golfing51

May 28

Daily writing prompt

Do you practice religion?

Religion can have a lot of definitions. The dictionary simply says the belief in and worship of a superhuman power or powers, especially a God or gods. You could get into more depth like Wikipedia does by describing religion as a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements. Wow! After reading that I am so happy I was never baptized. Then there is the adverb religiously, which can have nothing to do with religion. This means doing something habitually or without fail. That I can get into. I play golf religiously every day if possible. I watch the Pittsburgh Pirates religiously. I stay away from organized religion. Throughout history when organized religion has been the ruling body of a state or country the people have always lived in filth and poverty. Organized religion wants to keep their constituents ignorant and fearful. Follow our rules and you will go to heaven. Don't follow our rules and you will go to hell. Religion uses guilt as one of their main weapons. The man at the pulpit uses guilt as a method to get more people to go to their institution when the attendance is high, like on Christmas and Easter. Obviously, this does not work as the very next week the institution is lucky to be half filled. I do not know if this would classify as religion, but I do believe in a higher power and I do meditate. I don't know if this higher power knows what the hell he or she is doing, but there has to be something out there that is controlling or causing things to happen for whatever the reason. Maybe just before we die, we are told what the hell is really going on and then we become whatever we become after death. So yes, I practice but I practice alone.