GR organised religion cf. personal beliefs

[Malignd]

<<I am not sure that religion... language... what the
hell- take it to the max- self-consciousness, can
exist in any purely personalized form ...>>

I'm going to jump in here.

Leaving aside my reservations and taking the above at
face value as correct, your idea seems to cut the
issue too finely; i.e., it posits a point the
specificity of which obscures rather than clarifies
the argument.

Whether or not a purely personal religion is, finally,
other than chimerical, one can still conjure a clear
and readily graspable difference between the inner
feelings of a pious freethinker and the rules,
strictures, by-laws, et al of organized religion;
between, e.g., a personally derived sense of grace and
a directive to recite ten Hail Marys or to tithe over
X% of one's income to the church.

<<What I'm asking is, is social organization itself
what is being given the bad rap, of which religion,
even in its most furtive- my thoughts are my own-
variety, is  just another manifestation?>>

I think the answer to this is yes, although I might
suggest religion is not "just another" manifestation;
rather a particularly virulent manifestation.


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