Why have formal religions?

Disclaimer: This text is not to offend anyone, if it does then please flame me for it is not my place to offend someone. Please read and respond to what your heart says to you.

Formal Religion: To be in a Coven, Church, or an Organization that is a conduit to religion or spiritual guidance.

“Our hearts are our temples, our mind is our gods, it is time that we move to the next level and think about the Human Spirit rather then what god we pray to.”

~ Pono-Kyunin

Deep within our souls we have to ask ourselves why does religion exist in the first place? To explain what life is? To explain what death is? To explain why things happen? So many wars have started because of religion, some religions are kept hidden because of oppressive religions, why continue the path we take, can it only lead to more destruction?

A friend once told me that he didn’t believe in a formal religion, it’s pointless, I can pray to god if I was on a toilet. All what is going to matter at the end is you and god, not what everyone else thinks, not what his on thinks, just you and him that is all. When I first heard this (I was about ten years of age at the time) I was amazed and awed by the saying. At this time I was studying in Sunday school believing that you needed the church to even get into heaven.

After this I began to think, think deeply about how this one little statement was so life changing. At that time my views fell from the church and I found that building my own religion was helping not just the soul but how I viewed the world.

Questions that I began to ask, if the Christians are right, yet the pagans are wrong? What happens? Shouldn’t god be savior to all no matter what people believed in? If Muslims believe this, and Catholics believe that, why should each other be wrong?

If everything is right and everything is wrong, why toil with the troubles of proving yourself right?

Pagans must know something because if they didn’t why would they continue to practice there arts, despite the persecution from the western religions. Christians have to know something cause they couldn’t have changed the world so much if they didn’t.

Eventually I found that toiling with myself led to no-where but to more confusing. Now that my mind have settle so many paths, ways, conduits have opened to me, I do not believe in atheistic nor Christianity, I believe in myself and what I can do. It is about how to give your spirit the best possible life and death there can be.

Enjoy life, enjoy death, enjoy yourself, respect the human spirit, there are still checks and balances in life, but you make them. If you want to wrong another human so be it, you have to live with your choice in life and in death. To better the future is to believe in our spirit, to better humanity is to believe in our spirit, to better our soul is to believe in our spirit.