#4 Belief and Religion

when it comes to this topic.
its hard to tell.
there are just too many options. So many options. Im not one to go off and accuse, but ive just tooken a long session of research on Scientology. I , I have no idea it just scares me .
but we'll get to that lets stay on topic.
Religion has been with us since, well as far as written documentation can tell, a long time. and it will be here for a long time as well.
Polytheism, the earliest of the religious belifes, depends on more than one god, example, greek gods; Zeus, Hera, Athena ect... Each god in a polytheistic belife usually serves some purpose with regards to life or feelings. Again greeks as an example; Hera goddess of marriage.
Polytheism was a more primitive form of religion. It seemed to serve more as a reasurance or an explanation of the unknown.
Monotheism is now a much more popular form of religion. There are many, and i mean MANY. Christianity, Catholic, Mormon, Judaism, all off these essentially are all variations of the same religion and lets not over-complicate ourselves with the hundreds of other religions. Now what do all monotheistic religions have in common? the one creator. The one allmighty, usually, he has rules that promote good judgment and morals. It all ends with the same promise; a great after life. Heaven is the goal, it is your reward for commiting your loyalty. Some promise more than others, like an advertisment.

What do they both have in common? an explanation to the greatest question to mankind.

how?

And ofcourse the rules, Judaism no pork, Catholic... well they have alot, regardless. these belifes again only furthur seperate our species and we all know of religious wars. The titan religions that have been carved into our very lives. It is a taboo to question them, they simply are, even if they lack even the basic proof or explanation (Creationism).
Now lets turn our head away from organized worship, in our modern era we seem to have a many amount of people either Athiest or Agnostic. Atheism bieng no god whatsoever, and agnostic bieng yes god and no religion. these two groups form, from what i see (in my own highschool) the largest population. Then there are always the modern Catholic/Christian, that is the term i use for the multitude of people that just wear the title of Christian or Catholic. These people while claiming to be part of that religious group perform NONE of the expected habits.
There are alot of these people as well.
This apperant problem of having so many beliefs and ideas and religions leaves me with one question.

"Who is right?"

That question is for the individual to solve alone.

But lets back track a bit. SCIENTOLOGY!!! i think it is quite important that you, the reader are informed about this.... Belief. if you dont feel like reading go on You Tube, and i can guarantee you'll find out some very interesting things.... Lets start with their basics. L Ron Hubbard main founder of the belief and author of Dinetics.

"Dianetics is a sub study of Scientology that deals with the reactive mind, the "bank" of traumatic experiences known as engrams which are said to inhibit success and happiness"- quote from wikipedia.com

Yea and it only gets more interesting. The story is millions of years ago an extraterestrial dictator named Xenu brought billions of enslaved and drunken alliens to earth and put us around volcanoes then used hydrogen bombs to blow us up.... ill post the segment

"Among these advanced teachings, one episode revealed to those who reach OT level III is the story of Xenu (sometimes Xemu), introduced as an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy." According to this story, 75 million years ago Xenu brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together, stuck to the bodies of the living and continue to do this today. Hubbard called these clustered spirits "Body Thetans," and advanced-level Scientologists place considerable emphasis on isolating these alien souls and neutralizing their ill effects"- quote from Wikipedia.com

So yes according to them we are Body thetans.

i my self am an atheist and take no part in this scramble for preaching and recruitment of people, i belive it is every ones choice to take part in their own belief, i can only say this though... please above all teachings remember common sense.