Evolution as a fact.

Kingdoms have always influenced other social entities. Whether it’s a religion or a politically elected government, both need to be overpowered by power-oriented kings. The reason is obviously power, so the politics of power is nothing new. Jesus experienced it, as I mentioned in a previous post (Read: A deadly mistake, mixing religion and politics). When a kingdom, empire, dictatorship, authoritarian regime, or even a democratically elected government is involved, there is a power struggle for the individual. This political power struggle always causes individual suffering, whether through financial loss or love loss. I call it human individual suffering.

Miraculously, humanity has been functioning for millions of years, regardless of kingdoms, dictatorships, religions, isms, and even democracy. This journey of our evolution clearly shows that human beings as individuals are very resilient. We have survived, and continue to survive, despite all kinds of brutalities inflicted by our ruling authorities, who lead us to conflicts and wars. Regardless of the sacrifices we make, we are still expected to be loyal to our groups to the point that we willingly kill, die, or commit spiritual crimes in the name of our nations, races, and religions.

My question is, should we just complain about our past, present, and each other as us vs. them? Should we do nothing about it and keep repeating history, or should we do something to change it? We can start by calling out our powerful groups and evolving to the next level, joining humanity as one entity, which is logically above and beyond any religion, nation, or race.

Just like a depressed or anxious individual, we collectively view our past situations similarly—we think the past was great but the present is bad. Or, like an anxious person, we believe that when we reach an ideal future, we will be happy. If not, worries consume our present, which is literally alive because we can make choices in it. Since both the future and the past are not the present, we can’t change them unless they become the present. Therefore, I prefer to focus my efforts on the present, where I can make a difference. We can’t keep adding bad days to our mortal lives due to past regrets or future worries. This is where free will serves its purpose for each of us.

Some would still argue that a kingdom is better than democracy, leading them to embrace dictatorship. Even today, we run our worldly affairs like empires, giving power to individuals like presidents or prime ministers instead of democratically elected councils. Sure, we would still have present-day problems, but we wouldn’t have dictatorship. Our democracies are pulled from all directions to fail—just look at the American election hacking or deep divisions within ruling parties or oppositions. Dig a little deeper and you’ll see that even our highest congregation, the United Nations, is infected with prejudice, exemplified by the power of veto. Whoever came up with the veto system must have had a political agenda rooted in prejudice.

Our prejudice seeps into every action, whether individual or collective, which is why humanity still can’t recover and evolve to the point where we can solve our insecurity-related problems. Our personal insecurities connect us to our race, nationalism, religions, and now even to gender. I believe we are all part of a singular organism consisting of individual cells, each directly connected to the source. No particular type of cell can be special because they all depend on the source, and interestingly, the source depends on the cells to function. There is no difference, thus equal rights are the best way to achieve justice, bringing internal and external peace.

I look at it optimistically and see us changing history regardless of our past because today, our prejudice has met its match. Humanity has found a new religion of equal human rights, spreading like wildfire fueled by the internet.

From a Tunisian street vendor to Malala Yousafzai to little three-year-old Alan Kurdi, their stories are awakening us to seek equal human rights. Sure, there is a lot of resistance—from protectionism that caused Brexit to the election of Donald Trump to all kinds of terror attacks—but these will change in time.

Equal human rights will eventually win because they represent the next level of evolution. This can of worms has been opened, and the taste of democracy has spread to individuals worldwide, especially with cell phones and the internet facilitating rapid change. Now it’s just a matter of time, as the internet helps propagate this new and improved religion of humanity. If you have any human rights violations, they can be posted within minutes and go viral.

Most religions have failed to do justice to the individual and humanity as a whole because they function with prejudice in favor of one particular group, promoting their way of living and spreading their political agendas.

If it is good for the ordinary individual and is based on an equal human rights justice system, any governing system can work. Even in the past, some kings were good and loved by their subjects. Dictators and authoritarian governors have their followers as well. Today, humanity has evolved to the point where governing entities need to be replaced regularly so no one can transfer people as property to their family.

Humanity has changed, and as individuals, we all need freedom. The old ways of governing are no longer in style, nor are they helpful or desired. No one tolerates forced conformity anymore, so power seekers have changed their tactics. Just look at today’s politics—there is a lot more manipulation to get elected. From false promises to outright lies to character smears of opposing parties, it’s all fair game.

Our personal insecurities and deep inferiority complexes play a big role in how we vote. We have been brainwashed by our religions and isms to believe that we mean nothing and are born sinners. That’s why we seek refuge and shelter in the wings of our belonging groups, yet we distrust ourselves and undermine our personal and individual potential. Our acceptance of being inferior has deep roots in the politics of our belonging religions and the knowledge preached to us through our ancestors. They have told us that the human individual is meaningless, yet the very existence of God’s physicality depends on the human individual. A ghost town and God have one thing in common—they both need human individuals to be meaningful or useful.

From the beginning, our religious knowledge has been tainted with the politics of our sense of belonging to groups. Logically, it should be based on spirituality, yet every religion has been and is influenced by politics. Everyone should know the real meaning of politics—in plain and simple words, it means hiding the truth and manipulating the population. Even today, our governing entities are hell-bent on brainwashing us to believe that, as individuals, we are just drops in the ocean and have no value. In reality, each of us is an ocean in a drop, depending on how we see ourselves. If you want proof that you are an ocean in a drop, just start to look and understand yourself one function at a time. Having ten trillion cells and one hundred trillion bacteria function flawlessly is a miracle in itself. It is as complex as can be. Do you really understand yourself? How can you function with all the opposing senses and functions, including all kinds of killers and poisons, within one body? A functioning human body is a clear sign of a divine entity wrapped up in a small package, so no, you are not an insignificant being at all.

You are a CEO, yet you make decisions to join a group and become meaningless. Actually, you should have the courage to tell your group when they are doing wrong. Individual powers are the foundation of all our progress in all areas of life, especially in religion and technology. The human individual has been involved in religious knowledge and every technological advancement we have made. We fly into space where no bird can fly, yet we have no wings. We dig deep into the earth to find resources without claws. We swim to the bottom of the ocean without gills. We may be a bit behind in the social department due to killing each other, including innocent ones, but a segment of the population is defending and preserving endangered species from extinction. This compassion is a clear sign of our evolution. Sure, we are not perfect, but we have not completely evolved yet either.

In the end, all religions preach us to be good people, but they also preach the politics of belonging to a group, thus becoming political entities that make decisions to go to war over who is right. Looking at history, no one can dispute that religions and wars have never been separate. It is horrible to see that we have not evolved yet. The killings are an ongoing passionate process that religions can’t seem to shake off.

It is absolutely arrogant and egotistical. As religious people, we should be humble and accommodating to other human beings because of our religious teachings, especially regarding the knowledge of God. I personally believe God exists through all living human beings. You can say the Devil exists because of us as well. How can these opposing entities survive through human beings? It is because human beings hide behind them and don’t take responsibility as individuals, so our conflicts carry on through generations—not because of God and the Devil but because of our personal emotions related to love loss.

A common theme in religious knowledge is that God will punish us, so we should be good and stay in line to be obedient to our groups. This makes us easy to control and herd whichever way they want—they can send us as an army or as suicide bombers as they please. I believe that if God lives through humanity, killing even a single human in the name of God would be killing God bit by bit.

We use a bit of our brainpower and claim we know everything there is to know, yet we are far from it. Just look at our actions. We have been claiming egotistically to have knowledge while evolving non-stop since the beginning. It is obvious there is something wrong with this claim. If we were using our full brainpower, we would have no room to learn new things. If we are constantly learning and inventing new things, it should be proof enough that we don’t know everything there is to know. So, how can we kill each other over our half-knowledge and keep doing it despite our evolution?