Models and Dogmas - Poem English
Channel: owais sarvasukhsevaka
Date: 2012-11-03

All religions are, really, models of reality.  When we come face to face with the big questions of life, and find no certain answers, we get disturbed.  We fall back upon the indoctrination we received as children, and then proceed to see those explanations as the real and absolute explanations of life.  We, then, indoctrinate our own children, and all others that we love, and in the process receive affirmations of our religious stories.

All these models of reality, get ossified and petrified over time, to become dogmas, and get a life of their own.  And then, whenever someone does something that shows our dogmas for the crap that they are, we get upset with those trying to make us see the reality - for we are all lazy bums: we do not want to wake up from our enjoyable, snug and seemingly safe slumber. 

However, slumber is not wakefulness; models are not reality, dogmas least of all.  Thus almost all of our religions, which have by now been reduced to dogmas, militate against a truer, more authentic, more evidentialist picture of reality.  Reality, that is Truth.  Truth, that is God.  Thus, almost all our religions are ENEMIES of God; despite their claims to the contrary.  If you really love God, you ought to fight dogma; you ought to fight the pimps of dogma.

Which is what this poem says.

This is an unpublished poem written circa November 2010.  Being published here for the first time and only in video format.