Religion is all about denying your biological instincts, Pavlovian-conditioning and Stockholm Syndrome, so that they can control your thoughts, emotions, speech and deeds. Religion is all about control. Control of absolutely every aspect of your life. It is about taking a natural organism (you) and forcibly changing you into something that serves the Organisers of the religion. Religion is anti-freedom and anti-life. It is anti-naturalness. That's why it focuses so much on your ego - your sense of self, your sense of identity, your self-definition. Because your ego is only a fictional image that you have painted in your mind, and they want to be the ones to tell you what to paint. That's why they so desperately want to start molding you while you are young - as young as possible - the younger the better.
That's also why the Abrahamic Religions 2.0x and 3.0x have given a name and a face to Nature and have brainwashed their believers to hate that face and that name.
The Pagans called that force of nature, the naturalness of our biology the name of Pan.
It represents the fact that we are not separate from Nature, that Nature is inside of us, and they we are nothing but animals. We are animals, with the exact same needs.
Find Food. Feast. Fight. Fuck. Flee.
Religions know that if we accept who we truly are: just naturally selfish animals, then we don't need them.
So they portray the natural energy of our being as something to be scared of and shun, they train us to ignore our instincts, and instead, train us to pretend that we are something completely unnatural.
If there was a purely objective, scientific test using only machines, chemistry, electricity and magnetism - that could test how happy and natural a person is - on a biological level - then it would find that the more religious a person is, the more utterly miserable that person is.
Living a life that is completely unnatural is literally and purely exactly the wrong way to live.
And that is what religions want us to do.
Sounds obvious, but it depends on the "religion"!
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