The arc of religion must bend to the morality which it intends to install as law. Since abominable immoralities dwell in the minds of humans and continually exist as despicable acts from the time religion was created, this underlines the essence of mankind. So, all modern religions and those which have existed in the past, do not generate a united mankind and/or a tranquil society. If they cannot do this, then all religions are worthless and best described as corrupt ideologies. The actual reason why this happens is relative to an improper definition of God. If humans knew the true identity of this deity, everything becomes resolved and humanity might attain unity. Yet, since nobody has a proper notion of what God precisely represents, this is the cause for all of mankind's problems and the poorly constructed religions. So, the concept of "freedom of religion" is an impediment toward the betterment of mankind. Anybody can say anything, but it does not make it real. Contrarily, humanity needs a unified religion which properly identifies how all humans were created on the earth. It must be a religion based upon solid scientific principles which nobody can deny. There can be no aspects of belief. Everybody must know the identity of God before offering cockamamie theories without proof about topics like ever-lasting life, omnipresence, infinite knowledge, and omnipotence. Still, there are more than 4300 religions in the world. Starting with the most populated, these are Christianity (2.1 billion), Islam (1.3 billion), Agnostics and Atheists (1.1 billion), Hinduism (900 million), Chinese traditional (394 million), Buddhism (376 million), Primal-Indigenous (300 million), African traditional and Diasporic (100 million), Sikhism (23 million), Juche (19 million), Spiritism (15 million), Judaism (14 million), Bahai (7 million), Jainism (4.2 million), Shinto (4 million), Cao Dai (4 million), Zoroastrianism (2.6 million), Tenrikyo (2 million), Neo-Paganism (1 million), Unitarian-Universalism (800,000). The remainder are sects, exampled as the Druze, Samaritanism, Hellenistic, and Celtic Polytheism. Not to be excluded, are the New Age religions and the UFO religions too. So, it seems endless. But it is not. It only represents the entire population of the earth. Everybody is filled with religion and much of it is based upon ignorant self-righteousness. Perhaps the UFO religions can be excluded since they might represent a reality. With respect to this latter concept, if modern humans are currently entering outer space, it seems plausible to assume that God might have come from the cosmos to create mankind on the earth. The truth is that more than seven billion people are living on the earth at the time of this writing and everybody is religious. But, nobody can properly identify what they are worshiping except in a mystical sense. In reality, the quantity of 4300 religions is obviously misrepresented. In actuality, there are over seven billion different religions in the world since everybody possesses a divergent opinion of what a supreme deity supposedly represents. This also applies to people which lived in the past. But, it does not have any relevance to the humans which existed in the beginning. They knew exactly how they were created and who did the creating. These people worshiped the original deity. Yet, when the arc of religion goes in the other direction and bends toward a morality which is so alien to the way humanity currently exists on the earth, then a pathway is opened which exposes the truth. It yields an identity to God which cannot be denied. Many readers may argue the previous statement, so the following warning is given. After becoming enlightened about the only true identity of God, you cannot go backwards and become naively stupid again. If an open mind exists, you must acquiesce to the superior mentality. If a closed mind is present, you are a prime example of the seven billion confused and brainwashed souls.
About the Author: As an adolescent, my mother and I walked to church every Sunday on Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village. After mass, there was a short period of indoctrination by the sisters. But, by the age of eight, I did not enjoy the catechism classes, preferring to flip baseball cards on the sidewalk with school friends. Yet, being naïve, I dutifully listened to what was being said about Jesus. Supposedly, he loved everybody, including me. Truthfully, I didn't know how this was possible since he died about 2000 years ago. But, as I recall this period in my life, I may have believed it. Some years later, my family moved to a countrified setting in New Jersey. This made it difficult to attend religious services since the closest church was a dozen miles away. However, my parents occasionally made the effort. Yet, as I remember, many Sunday mornings were spent playing with cousins along the Raritan Brook. Building a raft and being fearful about large snapping turtles, was far more exciting than listening to how everybody was born with original sin. At a later time, the family relocated to suburban Long Island, N.Y. I was now in eighth grade and a church was two blocks away. So, Sunday attendance was reestablished. However, after entering high school as a freshman, I was introduced to a book written by Thomas Paine. Its text demonstrated religious inconsistencies while challenging previous teachings. So, being inquisitive and somewhat audacious, I visited the senior pastor at the local church for an interview with Paine's book in my hand as support. Every response the priest offered to my questions, was repeatedly challenged. Unexpectedly, it only took fifteen minutes before the prelate ended the conversation by accusing a naïve thirteen year-old child of being a conceited ass. Shocked by this response, also enlightened that Paine's assertions could not be negated, I knew something was wrong with religion. So, I never went to church again. Now, fast forward to the age of forty when a desire existed to change course in life. As I recall, Greek mythological deities were the subject matter. Since this touched the boundaries of religion, reading the bible was also undertaken where a thorny question was posed by Nicodemus. I couldn't answer it. So, the query was given to my sixteen year-old daughter, a-top-of-the-class student who never received religious indoctrination. Surprisingly, she posed a statistical answer. Then I knew exactly what was wrong with religion.