I'm talking about institutional religion. You're talking about spiritual beliefs. 2 totally different things for free thinkers, but I guess they're the same thing for many sheep.
What do you know about death?
I know not to expect an afterlife that's strictly defined by any arbitrary rules imagined by men. Death is the border of the jurisdiction of Might-Makes-Right.
Institutional/centralized religons aren't the dominant model when it comes to religion, in terms of efficiency
Look at the vatican, it's almost dead, zero credibility
It's the decentralized aspect which is much more interesting imo, when it comes to surviving the shit hit the fan, including the total collapse of the "head quarter"
Anyway, an ideology revolving around materialistic concerns only, with some sort of over rationality at its core, as in everything has to be 1+1=2, is doomed to fail, it's not "deep" enough, it's superficial. Especially when you consider the fact that science is the history of science, first, it's far from complete and it turns often wrong after a while.
Needless to mention that Man isn't a rational creature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience#Common_elements
Catholicism was the most popular religion globally for a long time, and is still #2 next to Islam more recently. Islam is more decentralized in current organizational structures but is still centralized on a fundamental level because Muslims believe they must follow a set of rules that was originally given to them by another man, Mohammed, who is the central authority of Islam.
My point is, centralized spiritual beliefs are still overwhelmingly popular globally because most people are followers and can't imagine anything else.
Real decentralized spiritual beliefs means the individual can access divinity directly, without going through a middleman priest or prophet, so there is no hierarchical chain of command. Few people are able to grasp this simple concept, just as few people are able to grasp the concept of personal sovereignty.
Believe what you want
The fact remains, that if you define yourself as "anti" anything... Once that "anything" is gone... Your identity is gone, too...
Checkmate?
Yes
And self inflicted
So, your whole "business", is flawed from the begining, doomed to fail
Sure you can argue that this system has this flaw or this flaw... But yours is even worse, in the end
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