Religion 21 a Pre Religion
Religion21: a Pre Religion
I have faith in the uncompromised explanation for all the mysteries of life, while admitting my unbound ignorance as to the nature of this explanation, and as to the nature of who the explainer is.
I am not ready to subscribe to a religion that claims to be in the know as to the attributes of the explainer of all the mysteries of life.
I am in a Pre-Religion state: actively moving to be Religion-Ready
Religion21 says:
learn what you don't yet know before you are ready to commit to a life-long plan of action, and before you are prepared to faithfully follow the instructions of an attributable cosmic authority.
Religion for the 21st Century
Learn!
Decide only when you know enough to make a rational decision, and until then decide to learn what you don't yet know.
Religion21 says:
commit to advancing to a position where you can rationally answer the question of the meaning, purpose, and point of life.
A modern reading of the old religions discovers the underlying message of Religion21.
The Second commandment in the Holy Bible warns its reader: you are ignorant as to the nature of God, don't subscribe to a description or a model of God while you are in such state of ignorance. Implicitly saying: learn first!
King Solomon, the wisest of men, opens up: "The world by all accounts is meaningless," implicitly saying: it looks meaningless to us, not because it is so but because we are too ignorant to see its meaning. its point.
One command: Learn!
Learn what?
Everything! Big insights hide in every unknown.
Until you find what life is for, life is for finding what life is for.
Religion21, the Pre-Religion, is Science-Friendly.
In classical mechanics we humans believed to be fair and objective in our observations and in our thinking. Came along quantum mechanics asserting that we are not a fair outsider, our observation is biased by our very subjective act of observation. More recently an article in "Applied Physics Research" entitled "Negotiating Darwin Barrier" concluded that our very thinking is distorted by the arbitrary process of Darwinian evolution. Say then, neither are our observations objective and undisturbed, nor are our thoughts objective and undistorted - by our subjective past. Namely we humans we don't have a solid reference point to stand on when we contemplate the reality around us. How then can we commit to a life-size plan of action, and to unreserved obedience towards a commandments-issuing entity?
What we can commit to, what we should commit to, is to recognizing our subjectivity, to spotting our limitations, and to innovating our way towards a know-more position, a know-sufficient position to qualify for subscription to a Proper-Religion that pleases our common sense, heart and mind.
So why is it not called Philosophy21?
Because philosophy does not generate the fuel of life generated by a religion. While Religion21 says: innovate your way to a position of being qualified to meet the challenge of a Proper-Religion, Religion21 also recognizes that we need food for our heart. we need scaffolding for your psychology. Religion21 says: we are naked before you, the One who knows all that we are ignorant about, and we pray for your mercy, we ask for your guidance, we beseech for your holding us, although we are so profoundly ignorant as to who you are, or what you expect us to do. We submit to you, we trust that you see our poverty of knowledge and you open the heavenly gates for us to learn, and wash away our unbound ignorance, so that we can worship you from a state of fair and right understanding and knowledge.
