The role of religions

I close my eyes and, suddenly, I am transported to a big room where flat screens surround me. Each screen shows me a different society and its spiritual health.
I take a seat, cause I know that this will take a while, and I watch the displayed images.
I open my eyes, by the end of this experience, and notice that I’ve written the following text:


Spiritual anarchy has arrived to our society and it threatens to linger.
What could be the root of this phenomenon?

Every single religion has its own set of dogmas by which a person (belonging to a certain religious universe) must abide to. Below I present a small eclectic example of what I’m referring to:

• In case of divorce one won’t be allowed to re-marry in the church, nor go to communion


• Women must restrain themselves from exposing their body and hair


• Women shall not wear trousers nor cut their hairs


• Men and women seat separately in a house of worship


• Women are implicitly barred from becoming spiritual leaders.

Religious groups often politicise God by feeding the minds with dubious messages, with the sole purpose of meeting their own agenda (i.e. to govern countries). Such strategies tend to overlook people’s spiritual void and emptiness.
What's the outcome of all this? People are simply counterfeiting religion, by inventing each one its own belief system (half-Christian-half-Pagan, half-Buddhist-half-Christian, half-Jewish-half-Hindu, half-Hare-Krishna-half-agnostic, non-practising Catholic, atheist-Christmas-lover etc) because they have more access to religious information, they are more educated, they became inquisitive, they no longer accept the lack of adjustment to modern times and, as the French say “les gents se méfient”…

People don’t feel attached to religion anymore; for when they feel lost and seek comfort in religious entities, most of the times, they are reproached (without a logical explanation) for their materialistic ways.
Religions should correct the mistakes done in the past; improve their representation; reducing, thus, the number of people that flee from the places of worship.

The role of religions in contemporary societies should be: to positively induce people to cultivate a symbiosis between their lives and spirituality; to teach them the basic moral values and, finally, be the voice of the oppressed when (and only) democracy fails.

Surprised, I put down my notebook; I look outside the window and think to myself “To publish or not to publish…that is the question!”