Does The Human Race Need Religion?

The mind traps of religion & the church building fund

Posted by princesstamtam on Tuesday, February 06, 12:48 AM

Being a natural Empath I'm extremely sensitive to moods and aware of energy around me. I guess I'm more spiritual than anything now. I grew up Catholic. with two brothers who were and still are Rastafarians, a father who's a seventh day Adventist, sister a reformed Jehovah’s witness now catholic, mother a reformed Catholic now Baptist. I absorbed a whole lotta teaching from all of the above and it served no purpose other than to drive me mad. I was forced to listen to the teachings Haile Selassie, memorize the books of Moses, walk for confirmation, and go to church on a Saturday, Sunday, confession on a Monday and Wednesday.

Pay tides and offerings out of my piggy-pan, read revelations back to front, learn numerology and how to predict the next anti-Christ by the number of digits in his name (Ronald Wilson Reagan 6+6+6). In the mean time I attended Stone love concerts, Sun splash in Jamaica, carnival in Trinidad, Jovert morning in Antigua, danced my ass off with the Badder/ready dancehall girls, appeared in a spragga benz vid, limed at Act 3 in NY against the wishes of my mum although her brother owned a part of it with heavy-d and supercat walked like a champion for buju banton and flexed for Mad Cobra, Toronto for caribana and shaggers.....

....ride the stalag and chicken riddim as the long dead tenor saw rang the alarm and bawl bout him pumpkin belly there were car rides to DC with a little in the trunk the gift of the big apple theater for my birthday, the coupling of two revered west Indian families for a minute the destruction of my sanity the birth of twelve languages and purification by pain...

but I still managed to listen to the teachings of Haile Selassie, memorize the books of Moses, walk for confirmation, go to church on a Saturday, Sunday, confession on a Monday and Wednesday. Pay tides and offerings out of my piggy-pan, read revelations back to front, learn numerology and how to predict the next anti-Christ by the number of digits in his name (Ronald Wilson Reagan 6+6+6). The fucked up thing about religion it allows you to do all the things you’re not to do mon- Fri so you can beg forgiveness on a Wednesday. The wicked thing about religion is all the bloody money you put in that bloody plate yet your batty still hurts from the hard bench and you singing from the same ole song-key from five years before. I guess my wonderful darling O.B says it best with his new song Church Heathen.

Comments (7)

supes wrote on Feb 06, 06:32 AM

i think its great that you got to experience all of those religions because the more traps laid about, the more careful you are to avoid them all. my parents converted their religion before i was born and when i got older i just understood it as religion being more of a choice than a requirement. i didnt see much difference in any of them until i started studying the eastern ones. but still it always came down to this. the religious teachings arent the problem, its the religious practice. how could anyone take timeless teachings as beautiful as those of jesus or buddha and turn them into the ego trips they are today?

princesstamtam wrote on Feb 06, 09:19 AM

You think that was wonderful? It was a nightmare being pulled in different directions, the only one who eased up was my brother Earl and that was after I expressed my displeasure at them all in a very loud display of words (smile). I understood what every faction was trying to express but when it all came down to it there was just this unseen, revere element that everyone wanted to be close to but was truly unaware if he existed or not. It was hope wrapped in uncertainty. It was so called reasons and rational for destruction…perfect example is the crap between Israel and Palestine. How could you blame that on Abe and Rebecca? Do you know the story? A lack of faith and patience in God…if you do not know the story I will tell you but my point is how can you use them and a so called promise to wage war for thousands of years? I’m kinda long winded (blush) but senseless killing in the name of what ever the fuck you call him is a waste…I’d rather put on my shinobi shozoku and stalk rooftops….

supes wrote on Feb 06, 06:57 PM

okay. it musta been tough.

i look back at my religious upbringing and im just glad it didnt stick. i was never concerned really. it just didnt matter except the subtle lifestyle things. i found myself thinking in those religious tones, but the beliefs never really had me. even when i had a religion i was never religious. i enjoy learning about the different belief systems but id never commit myself to one. its all myth to me.

supes wrote on Feb 06, 07:00 PM

nice video.

princesstamtam wrote on Feb 06, 07:43 PM

I've always had questions that no one could answer. For example when God spoke to Moses on the mountain of Sinai. And then again when he wandered in the desert and again when he worked those "miracles through" him the plague and the pestilence things of that nature.....he spoke to these men in that time..when and why did he stop talking?

thanks for the compliment on the vid Shaggers is great :o)

gin_0 wrote on Feb 07, 01:28 AM

Tam that is one amazing mix of doctrines.

princesstamtam wrote on Feb 07, 07:00 AM

Aww shucks Gin :o)

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Religion has played an intergral role in world culture for ages. However in present times it seems to serve more as a dividing force than a unifying one and has yet to make any recent worthwhile contributions. In observing history we can see many of human's greatest atrocities were fueled by religious differences. Prophecies of doom and threats of judgement have yet to end the problems of existence. So putting the question of god aside, does the human race still have a need for organized religion?