(Stillness in the Storm Editor) “He who acts as the gatekeeper of culture controls the attitudes and internal world of the masses.” The engines of control have operated on earth for a very long time. For as long as there have been people living together, there have been those who are willing to resort to manipulation to get what they want from others. Humans are biological creatures, mammals, governed by social biology and systems. This means, our brains are designed to assess our worth based on what we think everyone else is doing. This means, if you can control culture, then you can exercise great control over the individual. Prior to mass media, the way the powerful controlled the individual was through religion, by forcing culture to adopt values pushed by the church.
The following article discusses the idea that heaven and hell were invented by the church to control the masses.
There is truth to this idea, for all the reasons just mentioned.
If you can convince people that some beliefs, actions, or desires are sinful, and therefore shameful, along with the idea that their soul will be punished for eternity, then you’ll create a culture that assesses behavior, at all levels of society, within the religious value system. This causes people to internalize these values, creating an internal church tyrant that changes a person’s behavior, attitudes, and choices. In other words, you create an extremely effective social control mechanism.
The goal of religion, in this sense, is to act as a “guiding star”—showing people what is bad and what is good.
Those who do what is good are rewarded with social status and prestige.
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Those who do what is bad are punished with social ridicule and loss of social capital.
After a time, people internalize these external cultural values pushed by religion. A mother, wanting to maintain good standing with her friends and other church members, will enforce the church’s values in her home, becoming an agent of the church for her family. Her children will be indoctrinated into this behavioral system, wherein when they do things their mother, and the church, don’t want, they’ll be punished into compliance.
This engine of individual manipulation through culture exists contemporaneously, in a different form.
Today, priests and saints have been replaced with celebrities, of all fashions.
And while heaven and hell, as promoted by the church, are likely fictional myths, the core concepts are real. When we go against universal law, when we disrespect free will, dishonor the rights of others, and fail to take responsibility for our actions and being, we create pain and suffering for our selves and others—hell. When we do the opposite, honoring the rights of others and humbling ourselves to truth and law, we create healing and abundance for ourselves and others—heaven.
So while the moral codes of what is sinful and what is virtuous might be distorted, as they are presently represented in religions across the globe, the principle concept is totally valid and real.
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Yes, the church made up heaven and hell to fear-program you. But a great many of the core concepts within religion are valuable.
The task of the modern-day adept, truth-seeker, and spiritualist, is to reclaim these eternal truths and restore them to sacred-hood within a more inclusive and intellectually honest culture.
– Justin
(Arjun Walia) Religion is a controversial topic, and I’d like to preface this article by saying that it is not my aim to belittle or diminish anyone’s beliefs. My problem is not with faith but with religion as an organization, which has been used as a means of control, to pit people against each other, and to incite terror and war. Religion in this context serves the purposes of many various global elitist agendas.
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by Arjun Walia, January 26th, 2020
Religion is also confusing, to say the least; within several different religions exist different ‘sects,’ each with their own teachings and version of the ‘truth’ and how to live one’s life. Within Christianity alone, there are multiple versions of the Bible, and teachings that contradict one another. What one religion says in one part of the world may directly oppose what another says in a different part of the world. This alone is a recipe for feelings of confusion and isolation for anybody who is seeking ‘the truth.’ If various religions preach different ways of life and truths, they all can’t be correct, can they? I guess that’s why they call it faith.
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Below is a video of Jon Shelby Spong, a retired American bishop of the Episcopal Church, discussing these problems. He argues that religion is a business and it is used as a control mechanism (and he’s not the first insider to do so). We can see this happening most clearly in the rise of Islamophobia. Islam has been turned into a scapegoat, a target at which we can direct all our fears and anger, and an excuse to invade other countries and create a more intense global national security state. But the truth is, Islam has nothing to do with violence or terrorism. These manufactured fears are all part and parcel of ‘false flag’ terrorism, which you can read more about here if you are unfamiliar with the concept.
In the video, Spong affirms that “religion is always in the control business, and that’s something people don’t really understand. It’s in the guilt producing control business.”
Every church I know claims that we are the true church, and they have some ultimate authority. . . . The idea that the truth of God can be bound in any human system by any human creed by any human book, is almost beyond imagination for me. God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew or a Muslim or a Hindu a Buddhist; all of those are human systems which human beings have created to try to help us walk into the mystery of God.
He is describing the difference between faith and religion. I myself have explored multiple religions, and have discovered teachings within all of them that deeply resonate with me. I’ve also found teachings that don’t resonate at all. I don’t believe one religion has all the answers.
Using fear to coax people into a certain way of life or belief system, just like the Bishop mentions above, seems to be common practice in nearly every religion, and that certainly doesn’t resonate with me.
The history of the church itself is problematic. Whether it be the church’s role in the First Nations Genocide here in Canada, or the European crusades, the church has a history of forcing their views upon others and of condemning science and new discoveries.
Furthermore, as the Bishop says above, people need to accept responsibility for the world. If we simply leave global change in the hands of God, we remove our own responsibility and agency in this world. If we want to change the world, WE have to do it. After the Paris terrorist attacks, the Dalai Lamai expressed this as well, arguing that it’s not enough to just pray. We must take responsibility for our planet.
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We are also dealing with texts that are very old, and considering there are multiple versions of various texts, all of which have likely been manipulated, changed, and distorted over the years, I find it difficult to accept any one without question.
Another point that turns me away from religion is hypocrisy. Many people claim ties to their faith yet know very little about its tenets, and fail to follow what they claim to believe in. This is commonly seen within the ‘spiritual’ movement as well, which can be seen as another form of religion in itself.
When it comes to religion, I believe you have to do your own research; you have to read the books and examine the teachings for yourself. Use your own head and find what resonates with you instead of allowing yourself to be indoctrinated and letting someone else do your thinking for you. These texts are open to interpretation; it’s up to you to find meaning in them and apply it to your life. You can still believe in God and not be religious. Religion is a manmade construct, and I think if God were to suddenly appear somewhere, he or she would have no idea what religion even was.
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Religions as organizations are going to have to change. New discoveries are constantly being made that are challenging long-held belief systems. We cannot grow if we refuse to have an open mind and accept new possibilities about the nature of reality, and it’s childish to hold on to old belief systems just because they are familiar.
I personally believe in the soul and other non-material phenomena, as well the idea that life does not end here on Earth, and I believe there is enough evidence in various forms, aside from my own intuition and gut feeling, to support this stance.
What about you? What do you believe? What it all boils down to, for me, is respect. We must learn to respect each other’s viewpoints about ‘what is.’ We need to work with each other and accept our differences so we can focus on helping the planet, our shared home.
“It’s a mark of an educated person to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it.”
What do you think about religion and what Spong is saying in this video?
Stillness in the Storm Editor: Why did we post this?
Mass mind control, also known as propaganda, social programming, and reality management, is employed by the powers that be in their soft-slavery system. The way it works is that the beliefs and values of the individual are influenced through their need to gain and maintain social attachments, turning them into a pawn for the elite or a cog in the engines of control and domination. Through mass media, the perception of what is socially viable is manipulated, often through celebrity influence or mass spectacles, like TV, movies, video games, reality TV shows, and social media. Without comprehending the fact your brain is designed to manipulate your thinking through the desire to maintain social attachments, you will quickly find your values and beliefs changing, often deleteriously, in the pursuit of acceptance. But with the knowledge of how mass mind influence works, combined with the desire to know thyself, one can begin to recognize these influences, and guard against them by developing the ability to assess and refine one’s value system, based on merit and well thought out truth and value arguments.
– Justin
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