Religion And Its Malcontents

Anyone can see the lunacy of David Icke and his ideas but many of those who do so are quite likely to hold a set of beliefs that are no less bizarre but because they are centuries old and are embedded into the culture they are not questioned or thought at all odd such as Christianity or Islam to name but two.Once supernatural ideas have been accepted their detail matters little,whether it involve christ resurrected,or a shape shifting reptile,both require a suspension of reason and disbelief,an abandonment of the mind and a reliance on faith.

A breach of the mind has been effected at this point and credulity and non thinking will now by default guide a person's life.Having had experience with believers I have seen myself how irrationality rules their daily lives and how their beliefs have given them licence to be irrational and then rationalise their beliefs to suit their agendas!No matter what happens to them they can always interpret it as a sign from God,the ultimate flexible friend.I can only conclude that as Freud said a century ago,all religious belief is a form of mental disorder.To be more up to date, Scott Peck said 'most people's religious beliefs are neurotically determined'.

Many in the religious establishment realising they are on shaky ground have sought to anchor their belief system in science itself,to coopt it in an attempt to legitimise it for a modern more skeptical audience and this is illustrated in the recent phenomna known as intelligent design theory.One religious leader even wrote a book called Finding God In Physics which begs the obvious question if you can do that why do you need faith,the very bedrock of religion?