Religion: Freedom or Indoctrination?

By David Thorson
Contributing Writer

Many religious zealots internalized their belief systems through rigorous indoctrination rather
than freely choosing what to believe in. This invasive process produces automatons who don’t understand the origins of their basic orientation to life itself, as well as to their religious beliefs.

These indoctrinated followers unconsciously substitute the overall veiled religious symbolism for
the concrete realities existent behind them. Subsequently, many organized religions become like
subtle cults behind which members hide from the universal forces of life and death and the
existence of the ongoing presence of the soul— the real cosmic presence that persists beyond the artificial constructs of time and space.

Although religion can potentially serve the purpose of ordering an otherwise chaotic and
incomprehensible universe, often worshipers mistake the vehicle for the destination: the beliefs
and practices become the destination rather than the vehicle for accessing an unknowable
whole—the presence of God in the context of the here and now. For it is in the unadulterated
awareness of the here and now that we come to terms with the ephemeral life force moving us
through our temporal existence on the physical/temporal plane.

All other phenomena are illusory by their very natures and condemned to perish, given enough
time and space. Only the soul persists, as it is eternal by its connection to God. Thus arose Jesus, the pure manifestation of soul: a transitional object, if you will, between God the universe—pure consciousness or awareness; and man, the most potentially conscious
being in this world.

Jesus bore torture and termination so that conscious men and women could access their or Jesus’s soul in order to know eternity personally, and God through his presence in their own beings.

This is where Christianity parts with reality through projection of the human ego onto God and Christ, and subsequently indoctrinates its followers into cultist thinking, behavior and evangelism.

When the alternative awareness becomes widespread in Christian circles, Christianity will
be transformed to a legitimate and authentic entity rather than a Santa Claus-like fantasy.

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