Every man must have certain essentials to be a full man. If he doesn't find the food he needs in one sphere, he will invade others.

James Barr

On

Organized Religion

oday, the Thought and Art of the world suffer from a truly splendid system of censorship designed via the Apostles' Creed to protect us from the horrors of sinful reality and executed to send us in carload lots to prison, impotency, or the psychoanalyst's chambers.. The great argument of organized religion is as hollow as it is big: "We must be right. Look at the good organized religion has accomplished. If you take it away, what will be left to guide the poor ignorant and the ignorant poor?"

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ne might think systems of government, law, morals and social behavior had never developed before the year One, when we all know that communities of cow-worshippers, pig-scorners, blood-guzzlers and so forth have always functioned functioned normally and lived peacefully within trading distance of one another so long as one group didn't get hungry or fancy the other for entertainment purposes as lion food. One is almost tempted to believe that the laws of economics, if not art, are nearly as important to mankind as the laws of God. As for the good that organized

religion has accomplished, try balancing it with religious wars, persecution, frustration, poverty, and plain degrading beholdeness to other more powerful mortals, possessed too often with the instincts of brutes. The excesses of faith. have broken up as many homes as the excesses of alcohol, dope, or vice. We must not ask organized religion to annihilate itself however, as it does us, but only to contain itself within the limits. of fair play and stay out of politics, business, and art.

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ore men have lived by the laws of economic necessity than have died by the laws of any priesthood, and the world is no worse a place-now than it has ever been, contrary to the carefully calculated fears of religious and political leaders. Actually it grows steadily better in spite of the leashes and muzzles of those seers and knowers of the unseeable and unknowable.

ut the soul saving politicos never

But

stop trying. Within such groups lie the witch hunters of homosexuality. Yet ironically, the doctrines they preach swell the ranks of homosexuality every

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