Facebook Editorial. Why pray for peace…

 Facebook Editorial. Why pray for peace…


Assisted translation of « Édito Facebook. Pourquoi prier pour la paix... » with Google Translate. (2024-10-08)


Societas Criticus, revue de critique sociale et politique, Vol. 26-04 : www.societascriticus.com

Michel Handfield, M.Sc. sociology (2024-10-07), written from my Facebook post of October 3, 2024


Why pray for peace when most conflicts in the world are fuelled and caused by religious beliefs, often centred on a single God, but opposing each other, aiming only to ensure the supremacy of their religious readings over those of others? How many deaths do we cry over by imploring God while waging wars in his name instead of working for the well-being of humanity? How many more deaths will have to be made before we understand?


Besides, there is no book written and signed by God. Have you noticed that all these books that tell us about God have always been written by people who have heard voices or had visions? Nietzsche himself said he heard God die in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra". It will be said that it is fiction, because he was an author and philosopher, but the others were authors too.


When we look at it coldly, religion is like a hard drug. Karl Marx was right when he said that "religion is the opium of the people". It’s definitely worth discussing in educational institutions. Religion can easily be used as a tool for manipulation and propaganda by those who know how to exploit it. Unfortunately, many minds remain unprotected against its influence.


We can easily incite them to fight for God, a cunning and manipulative politician, or even make them easy prey for sexual aggressors who will know how to make them responsible and guilty for their misfortunes, as we have seen in several cases of assaults on children and adolescents by people in authority. You just have to be awake to see the traces of it in history as in current events. (1) And always remember that these are beliefs in the same way as the horoscope. If we are free to believe, why, on the other hand, does religion give rights unlike the horoscope? (2) We should ask ourselves this question.


Written in metro.


Notes

One can consider cases of child and adolescent sexual abuse and assault by religious congregation members, teachers or sports coaches that have emerged in recent years.

2. “Religion is exactly the same kind of thing as astrology: it originates in the pre-scientific, rudimentary metaphysics of our ancestors.” A.C. Grayling, The God Argument, p. 35.


On this subject I refer the reader to the book by A.C. Grayling, 2013, The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism, London (UK): Bloomsbury Publishing, 205 p., ISBN: 9781408837429 :

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-god-argument-9781408837429/

I have also written a text on this book, The God argument (L'argument-dieu !), in Societas Criticus Vol. 15 No. 8, from 2013-07-28 to 2009-09-20 (FFM Special), in the Essais section :


https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/61248?docref=7vM1C-j68T7Y8Pf_lpl1sA

https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/societas_criticus/pdf/2013/SCVol15no8pdf.pdf

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