Religions have a foundation principle to keep them going. It’s called tradition. Followers, through no fault or choice of their own, being born into a family of a certain religion, whichever that is, are programmed and made to believe certain things.
The one that struck me today as I was on the balcony of my apartment in Buenos Aries overlooking the famous Recoleta cemetery, was about death, the body, and the soul.
What I thought was that a cemetery is filled with dead bodies, each with a tomb, or gravestone, making the place where the corpse was placed.
People go to the grave to pray to the person if they were famous or a saint for example, or talk to their loved ones who have died.
What does this imply?
We want to talk to the soul of the deceased, so we go to where the body is, and we talk to them there. That means, the soul is still stuck with the dead body!
This is such a scary thought if you think about it as it means that when you die, your soul, the part of you who is doing the thinking right now, your essence, is going to be stuck in that one place where the body was buried for eternity.
If the soul was freed at death, we would not care about the body. We could cremate it and toss the ashes in the sea or anywhere because the body no longer has a value or connection to the soul, and we would not have to go to the grave to talk to that person.
Does anyone who believes in the principle of burying the body so they can go back to talk to or pray to the soul of the deceased think about the fact that if you are right, they are trapped in that one place for eternity, and so will you be!
That is why I will be cremated with my ashes dumped in the sea, anywhere, just in case in the event there is any tie from the soul to dead body, I cannot say there is or isn’t since I have not died yet, but just in case, I will be free.
This is just one example of how people live, and spend thousands of dollars, on concepts that no one is really giving much thought to its logic or implications. Of course not, because that would put a very lucrative industry out of business and the land for cemeteries would not be as valuable.
Think about this, and everything, with logic and common sense, and when you have learnt to think for yourself rather than blindly believe everything that you have been told to believe, you may start to find a stronger sense of self-confidence.
