Introduction
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Primarily, I would like to dedicate this
website to my affectionate and best friend
Miriam.
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- Religion -
The main meaning of the word
religion is, “action that one is bound to do (make a ~of
doing). Hence~Less (-join-) a. [ME, f. AF religium, OF –ion,
or L religio]” From The Concise Oxford Dictionary.
The sentence, “Action that one
is bound to do”, suggests some sort of work,
duty, or responsibility, that one is apt to make a ~ of doing, in
order to fulfil a task, a mandate, or mission in one’s life.
Therefore, if religion is a sort of a bounding agency
for anyone who adheres to it, then a religious person is its agent
and executioner.
In other words, I might say that
religion is to a human being what a mother is to her
child. What both they have in common is a bond,
which makes them inter-independent, as well as keeps them together.
Since the beginning human beings
had this religious bond, which tied them up, or connected them to a
divinity [or deities], to the ether world [or worlds], to the
Ancestors etc. Therefore, it seems to me that religion was born
since the outset of mankind on earth. Also we know that before
Christianity appeared on this planet, already several types of
religion were well established.
Some of these religions, such as
Mystery Religion, Zoroastrian, Mithraism, Hinduism, Buddhism,
Pantheism, Animism, and so forth were the domain of the so-called
“pagan world”, where many spirits “polluted”
the ancient globe.
Today, after the demise of about
2000 years of Christianity, a new religious phenomenon appears, that
of the New Age movement. Actually, if we study closely the New Age
movement, there is nothing new there, for it is the “old religion”,
arising from the ashes, and recycled as new to replace Christianity.
We might as well call this a sort of the ancient pagan revival.
For those who are interested in
this matter, see chart below (To see it click
here). This chart was taken from the book: “She Shall
Crush Thy Head”, by Stephen Mahowald, [page, 125].
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