Oh, my goodness. Major religions almost always trap their followers in this incredible delusion: You are the chosen ones. God has chosen you. You are exceptional. You are distinctive. You are superior. Only you will be saved. The question arises: saved with what? So, usually, a brilliant story is created. The moral of the story is that you are sinful. You or the first humans have committed at least one unforgettable sin. Another question comes to mind: What is sin? The answer is something that God does not like. This entails another question: What is or who is God? The answer lies with someone far beyond your reach who created you and everything around you.
Okay. So, why does he hate my choices? Why is he so dramatic about minor things? If he is an all-powerful “Being,” why is he so much worried about what happened in my bedroom, privately between consenting adults? What is the evidence that He exists? Why did he choose one group of people over the others? Why is he so determined to burn his deniers in hell forever? This whole organized religion and chosen one’s philosophy is so messed up and illogical that you would wonder why so many people even believe it. The short answer is that this carefully written story, again, is very appealing to some weaknesses of human consciousness.
In simple words, it fully exploits your weaknesses. It tells you that you could be superior, even without a strong character, just by doing some rituals, as taught by your priest. The easy way out. Just go to the church every Sunday or mosque every Friday, and you are better than all these bugs crawling on the Earth. You get the right to kill, massacre, loot, steal, rape, and enslave them just by joining the club or the cult. Above all, none of this will even slightly affect your status as the chosen one. You are saved forever by this angry, revengeful, brutal, violent, coercive, and thieving God.
As crazy as it sounds, billions of people have been trapped in this deceitful ideology for thousands of years worldwide. You must follow this craziness because the guy died for your sins that you never committed. But because the first humans did it, you must repent, remain scared of God’s anger, and find refuge in His Savior. Or because he was beaten and expelled by his people, because they would not accept his crazy ideas and message. Very few people ask how perfectly natural things become huge sins just because one guy someday delivers a message that was privately delivered to him by an unknown, unseen, and illogical creature.
Insanity has no limits. Later, when having sufficient numbers and power, these people wage highly destructive and bloody wars to convert the whole world to this insanity because they are the only ones who have the actual message from one true god that must be superior to all other ways of thinking and life. Ironically, the other side also has the same confidence in their message that was delivered to them by a different guy on behalf of another true God or, in some cases, on behalf of one of the true gods. Incredible. Not really, because billions believe in this pure fiction.
These religious stories sound even more childish than most stories written for children. Then why do people believe the unbelievable? Just like many saviors and evolutionaries in the religion of Atheism, all these theistic religions claimed to fix some of the most troublesome problems of their times. Lots of frustrated and suppressed people feel like there is a light at the end of the tunnel. This becomes their only way out, and they adopt these crazy ideas and stories in the false hope of salvation. Suddenly, from that suppressed and downtrodden state, they have a chance to be better than everyone else.
Instead of being slaves, they can now enslave others, all for the “good” of the people they enslave. Now they have a justification for hate, violence, murder, war, degradation, and the cancellation of anyone who disagrees with them. “You and us” and “Obey or die” become the words of the day. You are now distinctive, superior, and privileged. Humanity now has only two choices: Join you or go to hell. This also holds great promise of wealth, whether it is stolen, confiscated, forcibly transferred, or taxed. You will have access to all the avenues to corruption, lies, deception, fraud, cronyism, and cheating because you belong to the ruling class and ideology or religion.
You are not stupid enough to imagine going to the other side. Why would you abandon all these privileges and become a target instead? Why would you like to be called unscientific, disobedient, sinful, cursed, apostate, and a conspiracy theorist? Why would you be likely to be cancelled or shunned? Why would you let go of the eternal heaven for nothing? Why would you not like to have everything, including salvation, for nothing? For just joining one cult? Accepting someone as your savior? What difference does it make if it is Jesus Christ, Mohammad, or Anthony Fauci?
You get everything for just being on this side; the cost of crossing over to the other side is extremely high. So, seal your lips because telling the truth is a sin in the empire of lies. Just be a “good” person.
These are the reasons why people follow the blind faith religions until now, in the age of the religion of Atheism. This is why Germans were killing Jews, Russians, Chinese, Cambodians, Cubans, and North Koreans were murdering their brothers and sisters. Just join the cult, and every evil deed is justified, one way or the other, by authors, writers, journalists, academics, so-called scientists, and gurus. You do not even have to know right from wrong. Just put your faith in your leaders, and you’re good to go. What could be better and easier than this? Choose the easy way out. Would you not? Unless you are crazy.