I recently published two posts concerning Isaac Newton's character and proper place in intellectual history based on the BBC documentary, Newton: The Dark Heretic, about his life and less well known works. Often held up by believers as an example of a "smart" believer, Newton actually illustrates some rather disturbing things about religion and the harm it has done over the centuries.
Much of what Newton accomplished can be attributed to his religious fanaticism. Apparently, he worked on his academic pursuits every waking minute as a way of keeping his mind off temptations of the flesh. This propensity of his is very common amongst the most religious (the fanatics).
This is where the "smart" believers originate. Generally, they are not so much intelligent as very well educated. Their achievements come from their complete dedication to academic pursuits. They achieve this complete dedication by pouring all their sexual energy (and their egos) into their studies.
This is one of the dirty secrets of religion. Religions achieve power both by numbers of adherents and by the positions those adherents occupy in their society. Teaching that sexual urges are inherently evil causes many in the flock to sublimate those urges and use them to drive other achievements that can help the church.
Those who cannot resist the urges are encouraged to marry and have as many children as possible.
Thus, the church uses the most powerful of urges to further its own cause at the expense of the members of the flock. They are convinced to either dedicate their entire lives to achieving power on behalf of the church or to raising more members for the church. Either way, their entire lives are essentially taken by the church--to the detriment not only of the church members but to the detriment of society as a whole.
Those who achieve power are there largely to engage in systematic discrimination in an effort to further the interests of the church. Those who become breeders have caused our world to become overpopulated, which threatens the well-being of all of us.
This relentless, remorseless, manipulative quest for power helps explain why so many religions are obsessed with sex. Religions obsessed with sex are more likely to survive and achieve power in a society for the reasons I mention above.
Much of what Newton accomplished can be attributed to his religious fanaticism. Apparently, he worked on his academic pursuits every waking minute as a way of keeping his mind off temptations of the flesh. This propensity of his is very common amongst the most religious (the fanatics).
This is where the "smart" believers originate. Generally, they are not so much intelligent as very well educated. Their achievements come from their complete dedication to academic pursuits. They achieve this complete dedication by pouring all their sexual energy (and their egos) into their studies.
This is one of the dirty secrets of religion. Religions achieve power both by numbers of adherents and by the positions those adherents occupy in their society. Teaching that sexual urges are inherently evil causes many in the flock to sublimate those urges and use them to drive other achievements that can help the church.
Those who cannot resist the urges are encouraged to marry and have as many children as possible.
Thus, the church uses the most powerful of urges to further its own cause at the expense of the members of the flock. They are convinced to either dedicate their entire lives to achieving power on behalf of the church or to raising more members for the church. Either way, their entire lives are essentially taken by the church--to the detriment not only of the church members but to the detriment of society as a whole.
Those who achieve power are there largely to engage in systematic discrimination in an effort to further the interests of the church. Those who become breeders have caused our world to become overpopulated, which threatens the well-being of all of us.
This relentless, remorseless, manipulative quest for power helps explain why so many religions are obsessed with sex. Religions obsessed with sex are more likely to survive and achieve power in a society for the reasons I mention above.
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