Another God Bites the Dust

... and exposes the God-addict's true colors

 (this article has been truncated to strictly keep it within its subject matter, namely conversion)

The classic, damning and most telling example showing that religions are merely primitive and medieval cultures is the common phenomenon of conversion. It exposes the artful dodgers' true colors and the willful contempt and disregard for their own so-called belief that it is a God-given truth worth defending with their lives.

The whimsical and perfidious convert's erstwhile god, guru and the holy book go out the window as the "true believer" capriciously changes his mind in favor of a new superstition which strikes his fancy, soothes his troubled mind, or proves beneficial to him.

It doesn't seem to matter that he is openly showing contempt for what is supposed to be the "one true religion" -- and the religion of one's parents, forefathers and one's childhood. What's more it's admitting that one's own religion is worthless, exchangeable and expendable.

Reasons galore
The reasons could be: winning wars and battles; religious-type hallucinations or illusions (seeing a burning cross in the sky); marrying a woman belonging to another religion; a protest against racial discrimination and the caste system; indulging in polygamy ("three for the road"); marriage to a nubile 13-year-old virgin beauty; business benefits and advantages; higher status from the religion of the victor and even changing one's name in the process -- in fact anything and everything but the veracity of the "one true religion" itself.

Changing horses
Changing religions is worse than changing horses in midstream. You are, in effect, allowing your time-honored "sacred" beliefs and your way of life to be swept away by the current of an opportunistic religion. Talk about honoring the religion of your forebears and sacrificing your life for your religion!


Even gurus do it ...
But then, even gurus do it! They trash the religions of their parents, forefathers and of their own childhood after they fabricate and set up new religions later on in life. The gurus are thus truly traitors, infidels, heretics and apostates.

To put it another way, their own parents and ancestors were unbelievers in the guru's "true religion." So will they all  go to Hell?

... and their ancestors, too!
It gets weirder and weirder. We find the guru's own forefathers also indulging in such a treacherous behavior. History tells us that man has always been offering flowers and  incense to thousands of different donkeys, as Zarathustra would put it, since the beginning of the human race. And it's a certainty that he would continue to do so indefinitely into the future.

Just think of the thousands of once-proud living religions unceremoniously dumped into the garbage bin of history called mythology. And undoubtedly that's where today's religions will also end up, given the whimsical nature of man. 

A vicious cycle
Conversions also show that people like to swap one superstition with another instead of giving up the falsehood altogether. Why? Because religion is an addiction acquired early in life and nearly impossible to get away from it. It's like being hooked on narcotic drugs, smoking or eating meat even when your knowledge, ethics, and rational mind tell you these habits are wrong and bad for you.


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Conversion:  Garbage in, garbage out -- a lose-lose situation! (Me)

The guru is an apostate who does not believe in the religion of his parents, forefathers and his own childhood. (Me)

Addicts of desert religions believe in a godless, or atheistic, god. Atheists point out that a "godless god" is an oxymoron! (Me)


Men will wrangle for religion
Write for it,
Fight for it
Die for it
Anything but -- live it
-- Charles Caleb Colton (1780–1832) English cleric, writer - Lacon

Religion is the spiritual grog of the people -- easy to get habituated and hard to give up. (Me)

Today's mythology was yesterday's religion, and today's religion will surely become tomorrow's mythology. (Me)