We live in a constantly evolving, scientifically and technologically advanced era, where everything is questioned, including God, religious beliefs, and faith. This questioning is vastly different from even fifty years ago, let alone thousands of years ago. Today, most people demand equal human rights above religious beliefs. This challenges the traditional preaching that one must become a better person than those with different or no beliefs. If every religion began questioning and answering without getting emotionally bent out of shape due to the politics of belonging, they would discover they are preaching bigotry, prejudice, and discrimination, often connecting these with God. Things could become peaceful and livable if everyone acknowledges that beyond the cliff of faith lies our metaphorical reality.
Simply ask: How do you think God’s work gets done? Do you think God and the Devil are doing everything? If so, what place do human beings have? If God and the Devil are doing everything, why do human societies punish people for their bad actions, especially with strict and harsh punishments in religious societies?
Logically, if you cannot produce Allah, God, Khuda, Yahweh, or Ram on demand, then God is a metaphorical reality for us, much like love. You can feel God but can’t explain Him as a physical reality because we lack the comprehension. So, if you don’t really know, should you be killing someone in the name of God? Our religions have been around for thousands of years, but their knowledge about God has not evolved, unlike other human knowledge. Every day brings new discoveries in every field but religion. Is there any hope that religions will overcome the ultimate crime of killing individuals, including innocent ones? If you say yes, they will change, I ask when? If they haven’t in thousands of years, they likely won’t overcome their bigotry, prejudice, and discrimination because these have been passed down by our ancestors. The problem isn’t that God isn’t around but that our religious beliefs are tainted with the politics of belonging to our groups more than following spiritual principles. This politics is emotionally blinding, causing individuals to forget their humanity. We have lost the value of our individual atom of autonomy, which diminishes our importance, self-respect, and self-esteem. Religions notoriously make individuals feel they aren’t part of a godly world. Yet, all godly work requires human physicality to be meaningful. By killing each other, we reduce ourselves to even lower than genetically programmed creatures. Logically, as human individuals, we don’t have invisible strings of genetics, yet we still can’t see ourselves as independent entities. We stop recognizing our atom of autonomy when we sell our souls to the Devil of political belonging. Instead of being spiritual beings, we become creatures who stop evolving to reach their potential. Interestingly, regardless of religion, many of us seem stuck with our invisible strings of political belonging, which are worse than genetics-related strings. Our makeup tells a different story: we are entities who can choose to believe or not believe in God.
If you see a bee flying around the garden collecting nectar, it’s all for the hive. There are no visible strings attached, yet the bee returns to the hive without fail. Why? Genetics, you may answer. Bees are genetically designed and programmed to play their role. What about us? Are we singing the songs of our nature, or are we genetically programmed like bees? If so, we stand among creatures still stuck in the bush. Or are we above all other creatures? If you don’t think so, consider the importance of your atom of autonomy as a guideline and see where it places you. You never know, you may become a queen bee yourself. Shouldn’t we, as human individuals, override our genetics-related calls? We have been doing that to be modern-day human beings. Remember, we live in an era where following our genetics is a social crime.
Today, we have justice systems where you are responsible for your actions. If you hide behind God, the Devil, your belonging group, your religion, or even science, you may not be alone. The question is: what do you know about your existence as a human individual, not a bee or any other genetically programmed creature? Even if you hide behind science, remember that science allows no room for approximation or assumptions. You must break everything down to explain it. What makes a human being a human being goes beyond scientific knowledge. It takes much more to be happy in mortal life. Bravery, generosity, individual sense of justice, passion, compassion, politics, belonging, love, religious extremism, and even God should be scientifically explained without assumptions. Are we there yet? If not, think, why not? Put all this aside and consider this logical fact: you are and always have been an evolving entity. Your body of knowledge is and will be in a constant state of evolution unless you reach your potential. So, I hate to burst your bubble, but the claim of complete knowledge is wrong, plain and simple. If you still believe in your complete knowledge as everyone’s ancestors did, just look around to see the truth, if you can cross the lines of political belonging to collective ego.
Masses of people might ask, who are you to claim any powers? My logic is to look at the individual as a thread making up the fiber of a group. Sure, that mattered in the past, but today, our belonging no longer depends solely on emotional and chemical connections. We have evolved from our jungles and caves where we were part of the food chain. Today, we can differentiate between our emotional, physical, intellectual, and spiritual knowledge. We know emotions stem from thoughts or intellect, but emotions can block our intellect. So, intellectual judgments require unbiased and thoroughly thought-out explanations. If they are the truths you emotionally want them to be, you must explain them as physical realities. We cannot exist without our metaphorical realities, but they should be regarded as metaphorical to prevent confusion and allow intellect and physical truths to prevail. We discover many physical truths from imagination. Knowing that imagination is a metaphorical reality can clear some clutter. Until someone converts thoughts into physical realities, like building a real plane to fly, things don’t change much. Just like God and the Devil both need human individuals to lend them their physicality to be meaningful.
If you ask me my opinion, I will start this with a question and then an explanation. If someone says that human beings are created in God’s image, then the question should be: would you or do you buy into all that without questioning? If yes, then you can go into this explanation.
Hypothetically, think if you believe you are a cell of God’s body and belong to the arm or any other body part. Now you are wondering what is going on around you, so you ask your neighbor: do you think the body really exists? Your neighbor says, “No, I don’t know or believe in the body, but since I am part of the arm, I believe in the arm and that is it. I will do whatever the arm people say.” Now the question is, is this coming from the facts or from the politics of belonging? Not believing in God usually comes from the same knowledge that says, “I believe in God yet blindly.” If you can’t break down everything to explain scientifically, you and your computer have a lot more to learn about spirituality to be complete human beings. Am I belittling those who believe or disbelieve? No, not at all. All I am trying to explain is that our knowledge is not a done deal. Sure, our assumptions matter, but we have been proven wrong over and over about our common beliefs. We have thousands of religious beliefs and their sects, yet we still sing the same old song of differences.
If you explain to your neighbor that we automatically get oxygen, food, and water to live, who is providing favorable life circumstances? We literally don’t have any control over those circumstances. Simply, we can’t even live or survive without that external helpline. Now if you and your neighbor are confused or perplexed, it’s time to broaden your horizons to see what you have been losing or are being robbed of by your political belonging. IF YOU CAN DO THAT AND BECOME THE CEO OF YOUR PERSONAL LIFE, THEN YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THAT THE ARM YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT IS CONNECTED TO THE BODY. THINGS ARE A LOT MORE COMPLEX THAN YOUR BELONGING GROUPS HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU TO BELIEVE. THE BODY IS MOVING THE ARM, YET YOU EMOTIONALLY FEEL AND BELIEVE IN WHATEVER YOUR BELONGING GROUP IS PREACHING TO YOU AS A PHYSICAL FACT.
Now think about the bee being pulled to the hive without any physical strings attached. Do you see the differences or not? If not, you have a problem of being brainwashed to believe in being genetically programmed. If you start to think like a human being and question, you are not going to be liked because you are questioning their political authority. Since none of you have seen the body (God) from the outside, none of you really know how everything is working.
Remember, a seed does not look like a tree, which produces billions of seeds, yet a tree is grown from the seed itself. Now the question is: what came first? Most people ask this question with the chicken and egg analogy, but I prefer seed and tree because it gives you a better picture. We have ten trillion cells of our own with a hundred trillion non-human bacteria. Now if you think I should give you a scientific explanation about how things work or started, a medical scientist can explain it better than me. I am not going to make assumptions, so you will have to take their words. But again, remember human knowledge has not been or is complete. So, not only me, but our doctors and scientists are also learning, exploring, and discovering more every day. If they are able to explain things better than me, it does not mean that they can claim their knowledge is complete. So, the question is, do we know everything? No, not without going to absurdity and nonsense related assumptions to politically use people.
For now, we are on the Earth, and Earth came from an assumed big bang. Our scientific assumption is that fourteen billion years ago, the big bang happened, and things have been expanding ever since. Remember, there are no explanations of what exploded, where it came from, or why it has been expanding. What was before fourteen billion years ago? IF WE DON’T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, THAT SHOULD MEAN WE NEED TO KEEP ON LEARNING MORE INSTEAD OF MAKING ASSUMPTIONS AND BELIEVING IN THEM AS IF THEY ARE OUR PHYSICAL REALITIES. IF EVEN OUR SCIENCE IS UNABLE TO ANSWER WITHOUT ASSUMPTIONS, THEN WHY SHOULDN’T WE STAY IN THE PRESENT BECAUSE OF OUR PERSONAL MORTALITY? WE HAVE BIGGER FISH TO FRY.
IF YOU BELIEVE WHOLEHEARTEDLY AND FOLLOW EVERYTHING YOUR BELONGING GROUP HAS TAUGHT YOU, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT GENETICALLY PROGRAMMED BEE AND YOU. WITH INVISIBLE STRINGS ATTACHED, EVERYTHING DANCES AND SINGS THE SONG OF NATURE EXCEPT FOR THE HUMAN INDIVIDUAL, WHO CAME WITH AN ATOM OF AUTONOMY. THIS ALLOWS US TO USE FREE WILL AND CHOOSE TO DO JUSTICE EVEN AGAINST THE WILL OF OUR BELONGING GROUPS. WITH THAT POWER, WE CAN OVERRIDE POLITICS, INJUSTICE, AND EVEN OUR NATURAL DESIRES LIKE CONTROLLING OUR ACTIONS. WE CLOTHE OURSELVES, WE CONTROL OUR ANIMAL DESIRES, AND ARE ABLE TO FORGIVE. WE HAVE LAW AND ORDER TO FOLLOW IN OUR COMMUNITIES, AND WE ARE NOTHING LIKE OTHER CREATURES. IF YOUR POLITICAL BELONGING RELATED KNOWLEDGE HAS THE POWER TO MAKE YOU MOVE LIKE A GENETICALLY PROGRAMMED CREATURE, YOU ARE NOT USING YOUR CELL PHONE TO ITS FULL CAPACITY OR YOU SIMPLY ARE INFECTED WITH THE POLITICS OF BELONGING TO A GROUP INSTEAD OF HUMANITY AS A WHOLE. YOUR ABILITY TO USE YOUR OWN ATOM OF AUTONOMY HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY, SO YOU HAVE LOST YOUR LOGIC. YOU THINK AND FEEL AS YOUR BELONGING GROUP WANTS YOU TO. BE IRRELEVANT, YET LOGICALLY, WITHOUT HUMAN INDIVIDUALS, OUR TOWNS BECOME GHOST TOWNS, AND GOD AND THE DEVIL BOTH LOSE THEIR PHYSICALITY AND BECOME IMPOTENT.
Being irrelevant makes you lose your self-respect and self-esteem, making you feel insecure, so you stick with your groups for security. Yet you are the one with your personal atom of autonomy, which makes you the real McCoy or big kahuna. Even God and the Devil depend on you to get their jobs done. If you are suffering from a lack of trust in yourself or even others around you, start with trusting in what provides you oxygen, food, water, life-sustaining circumstances, and a competently working body. You can call it whatever you want; I am going to call GOD, a God. These sentences may be contradictory to you, but they make me realize and understand human importance in our holy picture we have been presented with right from the get-go. If you start to look at this picture from a wider angle, you will see you have absolutely no say in your coming or going out of your lifetime, and you can’t even take your next breath or swallow the food in your mouth if you are not permitted. Yet simultaneously, you are so important that good or bad actions can’t physically take place without your choice. So, don’t you want to trust in the help and your physicality you brought along? The help you have been receiving right from the get-go should actually teach you all about your importance, vulnerabilities, and strengths. When and if you have learned and built up that trust in external help, internally you will learn to trust in yourself, which can help in trusting others around as well. Understanding that trust actually has the power to make you live fearlessly, reducing your anxiety and stress-related energy expenditure to put quality in your daily living. One way or another, being religious or not, not trusting yourself and others around is stemming from a lack of trust in God. It’s not that you are a victim of others, but rather they are the victims of your inner demons. Lack of trust in life itself is a disease, so before blaming other people, parents, upbringing, God, and even yourself, start looking for the dead dog or dogs of your problems. The causes of your problems are not just anyone’s fault; they are related to your inability to question everything.
Let’s look at it this way: first of all, you are looking at God according to what your parents and belonging group have taught you. Second, you have bought into it wholeheartedly, believing your belonging group’s knowledge is complete. Since you are an evolving entity and time has been changing constantly, everything you have been taught can be wrong. What if that is all wrong? Remember, there is common knowledge that God is almighty, so not even a leaf on the tree can move without God’s will, and interestingly enough, you can’t breathe on your own to live either. So, it’s kind of obvious that you are going to buy into all that without questioning. Sure, we are blessed with and facilitated with life-sustaining circumstances, but what happens after that blessed breath is a whole different ball game.
It becomes a common sense game when you start to learn about your atom of autonomy. Believing in your own atom of autonomy allows you to be a human being without invisible strings. You don’t believe in God, heaven, or hell because of greed and fear but rather for the love of it all. Since you are able to use your free will, have a personal sense of justice, and can be compassionate and loving on your own without any kind of strings, it becomes common sense to take on your responsibilities in life. For example, if you want bigger muscles, you go to the gym, not to a mosque, temple, or church to pray.
If you don’t question and make sense of it all, you will stay at the same level where your belonging group wants you to be, so you can be used for their political purposes, just like a bee. If you are not created as a bee, you can’t blame God for your shortcomings. All you have to do is question, question, and question everything, including your political belonging.
Remember a simple logic: you don’t belong to an arm or a leg of the body because they themselves belong to the body. So, in actuality, you belong to the body as a whole. If you don’t question the politics of belonging before seeking to become a spiritual being, you are naturally going to mix your politics of belonging and spirituality. They don’t mix because the politics of belonging makes you become bigoted, prejudiced, and discriminatory. Yet, being spiritual sets you free from all these to become universal. Just like God and humanity are beyond human group politics. Spiritually, we all connect to God directly. Similarly, physically, we connect to humanity. That is why being human calls for being above and beyond those invisible genetic strings of race, gender, nation, or religion. You are more of a universal soldier connected to the body as a whole.
How important or relevant are you? That is your next spiritual level of understanding. Always remember: anything spiritual can’t be meaningful until it is physically performed. Since God’s spiritual work is dependent on the physicality of human beings, that makes them a crucial part of the holy picture. Yet our religions have been saying the human individual is an irrelevant part of the holy picture. To me, it’s brainwashing to rob individuals of their self-respect and self-esteem so they can become subservient to be used politically. You simply can’t be irrelevant regardless of what your religion says. Everything would be suspended in the air if human beings didn’t lend God their physicality. That raises a question: if no one is there to talk about it, is a haunted house haunted? You can believe in whatever you want, but I disagree when a human individual is robbed of their importance. Interestingly, human beings are not forced to do good like a bee. We choose to do good, which makes us even better than angels. While you are at it, think of angels as genetically programmed creatures like bees but in our metaphorical realities related world.
If you want to learn about yourself, your mortality alone can be enough to enlighten you spiritually. Your atom of autonomy related to your personal sense of justice teaches you not to do to anyone what you don’t like done to you or your loved ones. You would not seek the approval of your belonging group if you were spiritually evolved. With that level of spiritual awareness, your group may need your approval instead. If you can use your free will at will and at any time, ask yourself what’s wrong with you when it comes to your desire to fit in or impress, especially your belonging group. If you think God created you that way, just question and seek more knowledge to understand all about your personal atom of autonomy. Remember, it does not only allow you to use your free will, but it also gives you your personal sense of justice, the ability to be compassionate, be brave, the ability to sacrifice for others or even strangers, yet be generous and loving all simultaneously.
If you are created as a human being with all these godly abilities, you owe it to yourself to know why and what actually makes you feel irrelevant and unnecessary. Acting like a puppet without questioning for your belonging group is reducing yourself to a genetically programmed creature like bees. Now let’s be honest, does your belonging group provide you oxygen, a functioning body, and favorable life circumstances? Think and think again logically. If they are just like you and are unable to help you from getting old, sick, and dying, they are not God. So if you seek spirituality, first you have to remove the politics of belonging to a group of people. It’s easy to understand that the relationship between you and your belonging group is like the relationship between a cell and a body part, not with the whole body. The relationship between a human being and God is like a cell and the body as a whole. Put two and two together to understand this easy math: a functioning body is the one that takes care of its cells, not its body parts. Sure, there are no physically visible strings attached between a human individual and God, but our atom of autonomy is a legitimate bridge to diminish those lines of separation where human political belonging can successfully be challenged.
If you are insecure, you will seek your belonging group even for spiritual purposes. Regardless of it being old and torn, you will carry them around as a security blanket like a child. If you don’t address the underlying causes of your security-related problems, you could potentially lose faith in God with every little disappointment in life. In that state of being, you will be ripe to be used politically by your belonging group. Remember, God has nothing to do with it. If your religious beliefs are free from politics, you may find spiritual satisfaction. Otherwise, even having a belief system can’t help you find those elusive feelings of security and peace. A religious belief free of any politics has the potential to help you solve this riddle of out-of-control insecurities. Direct connection to logical thinking and God can help in accepting our mortality as a physical fact of life. Remember, fearing something inevitable for each and every one of us is not logical. Insecurities are fear-based, so we end up trying to control things we don’t have control over, causing stress and related physical illnesses that actually shorten our already temporary time. A belief rich in spirituality has been, is, and will always be the foundation of a good and decently evolved human individual.
Going to wars and killing each other, even making individuals believe it’s in the name of God, is a clear sign of politics. Wherever there is politics, spirituality takes a hike from that belief system. Now, tell me about any religion that is not using the politics of belonging. In today’s time, being less evolved is a matter of shame, not pride, as is using God for political purposes. Belonging groups know that an insecure individual can be easily used in the name of God. So, they bring God into every dispute because if an individual has God as their security blanket, they will die to protect their religious beliefs—not because of their belief in God, but rather for their insecurities. Yes, I am connecting our individual insecurities with all our religious wars, or I should say political wars. It has never been about God, belief systems, or spirituality but rather about political belonging to our groups. Especially when you believe in your religion or belonging group more than yourself, you have those invisible strings attached. If you follow those strings, you are actually going against God’s will. Just think about what and who you really are. Your abilities can tell you everything clearly: you are a human individual carrying your own atom of autonomy—a God particle of abilities to be a spiritual entity yourself.
Ask yourself why God created you as a human being, not like chimps. If you believe you are not created by God, you will have to believe that you evolved from chimps. That will raise a simple question: with ninety-eight percent similar genetics, why do chimps still live in the bush? After all, with that kind of genetic match, by now, at the least, they should be making and living in mud houses. Remember, they were not given that extra two percent of the spiritual side. Those invisible strings of genetics are keeping them where they are. Sure, we were in the bush or caves as well, but being a human being is not being a chimp. Remember, as human beings, we are flying into space, breaking down genetic codes, and constantly discovering new things, simply because of our evolving nature. It’s all about what and who we are, so knowing that, we need to evolve further from where we have been. Individually, we are all directly connected to God, so our progress comes directly from God. Just like other creatures are tied up and compelled to follow their genetics, we are all connected but have been blessed with a choice. Our progress comes from being an intertwined entity. Since our connection is spiritual, our invisible spiritual strings are pulled whenever any one of us does a good deed or converts a spiritual thought into physical action. It’s all because of our atom of autonomy, which is crucial in creating that bridge where human beings cross or diminish the lines of separation between God and human beings.
If you don’t believe, you have to critically look into the politics of your belonging. Then, you have to explore God without any restrictions or political boundaries. If you still find it difficult to move beyond the politics of belonging, you simply can’t be convinced by others. If you start to think and explore God without the politics of belonging to your group, you will find a spiritual zone where you will look at yourself like a cell phone. Similar to using your cell phone, you will find more and more abilities it carries within. Even if we don’t have those invisible genetic strings attached, many of us are still stuck in all that. The reason is not that they have those strings attached but rather that they are not questioning their political belonging to their groups. They don’t believe in what God has blessed them with. Their atom of autonomy is meaningless if they are stuck with political strings attached. Since God has done the godly job, now it’s up to us individually to evolve to the point where we can use and comply with our godly blessings.
Using our free will, personal sense of justice, compassion, ability to love, and helping each other with honest reciprocation with God can help us evolve to the next level and belong to humanity as a whole. This can throw a wrench in everything we have been doing according to our ancestral knowledge of our belonging groups. God takes care of our oxygen, functioning bodies, and favorable life circumstances—all without our asking or believing in God or not. Remember, physically, we just show up without our will to enjoy our time on earth. Yet politically, we are brainwashed and taught to rob each other of that time simply because our belonging group asks us to kill each other. We are even told by our belonging groups how to believe in God and believe exactly what they say will happen after we die. To me, if you are a decently evolved human individual with your atom of autonomy, you will use your free will and personal sense of justice before listening to political rhetoric. Your spirituality-based personal sense of belonging to God and humanity says don’t do to anyone what you don’t like done to you or your loved ones. Spiritually, we should all be able to see ourselves on the receiving end of our actions before committing them. Our evolution should help us come out of that hypnotic state of mind where we can’t think as perfectly functioning independent entities. We are responsible for our actions, even if we say we are not doing it for ourselves but for our belonging group. We are still responsible for those actions simply because we are above all those genetically programmed creatures who don’t have spiritual understanding. As human beings, we have expanded enough to use our imagination and explore virtually all departments of life.