Losing my religion

Ken Grandlund has a nice post on religion here:

His basic point is that "organized" religion is just another means of power and control - which we all know is true. He explains the whole concept very nicely. Ken has a way with words, as if he's having sex with the language... and I mean that as a compliment.

There is only one true religion, or call it a spirituality if you will, and it's god is Gorak, and I am it's high priest. Gorak has not told me the name of this religion yet. He talks to me, but unlike George Bush's God, who spoke to him and told him to smite the heathens and invade Iraq, Gorak tends to be a little less clear cut with me. I suspect Gorak is expecting me to figure it out on my own.

Anyway.. here's the blurb I left on Ken's blog in response to his post.

Yes, we seem to be pretty much on the same page. Being a software engineer, I like to functionalize things on my blog. I'll define a complex issue and assign a label to it. In this case, I call it "bat-shit crazy", represented by the variable BSC. So, from then on, I just say "the BSC's are pitching a fit about homos" and so on and so forth.

(quoted from Ken's post)
Where religion seeks to connect a person to their god, organized religion seeks to keep a person at arms length (or more) from their god and from each other.

I prefer to separate the concepts by the terms "spirituality" and "religion". Religion assigns a label to a persons belief and merely groups them together with other people who think the same way. In other words, "religion" is organized by default.

Spirituality can be individual. And, while spirituality is rather harmless on it's own, it's still kidding oneself. It seems to me that it's irrational to convince yourself, or have a "belief", in something that's improvable. It's like me saying that I'm convinced the color of the universe is green. Well, I can't know what the color of the universe is, because it's beyond being observable by definition.

If I define my spirituality in that manner, I become BSC.

There is only one true spirituality in this existence. And here is the great and divine truth;

I don't know why anything exists.

If you try to explain it beyond that - you're making shit up and kidding yourself.

By the way, I was not kidding that George Bush claims God told him to invade Iraq. Here's the quote;

"God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."

Now, if a homeless person made that sort of comment, they would be a candidate for some inpatient therapy. The fact that it came from the President of the United States should scare the piss out of the entire world.

Chimpy believes that God speaks to him. In medical science, they call that an "auditory hallucination".

That's one of the reasons why the legions of bat-shit-fucking-crazy people (that's BSC with emphasis!) worship at the alter of a giant chimpanzee.

In my administration, we will not base any public policy on made up shit. It will be based on sound, observable principals and concepts. In my administration, sleeping with interns will be A-Okay, because we all know that really has nothing to do with policy. After all, a President has to recreate, right?