Apr 26 2009
Man-made affectation
Article by Prof Ilchi lee
Ilchi lee says you could be a better person than any of them, yet you have to bow down because of rules generated to keep the clergy in a position of status. But status is a man-made affectation, which the truly enlightened do not need. So what does that tell us about organized religions? That they are just like any other form of man-made organization, primarily trying to perpetuate their own power and foster a sense of the “Other.” Unless current religions expand to become truly inclusive and accepting, they cannot lead us to the Truth. For some, very select people, maybe. But not for the majority of us.
What about the enlightened ones? From the desert and mountaintops, prophets have been shouting out the dire consequences of not heeding the Truth for millennia, but have people listened? What happened to the prophets’ messages after they passed away? They have been obscured, twisted, and doled out in fragments by the religions that have sprung up from the traces of their personalities, all competing with each other on the alleged superiority of their own ways to the same Truth.