wanted to start telling you that although this is a meme anyway and raised me to say something about the subject. Then I thought that you might not know what a meme, and perhaps a good time to explain, in part, why are you raining punches without really knowing what you've done or what your father has done for them.
There are theories that talk about that kind of life exists beyond the purely physical. And no, do not refer to a holy spirit or any mythology of the head to bring you this day. These theories (rather than "hypothesis") suggests that certain "ways of thinking," certain "themes of thought," have a kind of life of its own, maybe you'll become clearer if I tell you, for example, or a fashion particular game that is imposed for periods in the school playground. Nobody knows exactly why they arise, and how they move from school to school, but the fact is they are born, grow, reproduce and die as you would a living being.
One of these is the classic meme of religion (understood as man's need for calm before the potent forces of nature beyond their control). Probably arose from the first time a self-conscious human saw the sun sink below the horizon and was afraid he would not back out anymore, and everything is rendered permanently in darkness (and thus began to worship him as a mighty one that gives warmth and light that gives life). He also was afraid when he saw their loved ones died and decayed into nothingness, that he would die and become nothing. The fear of what we have no control, fear of ignorance of not understanding why things happen, and the complacency of believing that by following certain rituals get some control about those things (for example, the Sun God kill animals for a resurgence in the morning would be a religious ritual that time) gave rise to the first religious movements.
Over time, religions have been mutating and becoming more complex, always in the hands of someone who believes to be closer to the divinity and has more control than others (and therefore the power to decide for them ) appeared increasingly more elaborate and complicated rituals and divine relationships: the solstices, which showed the most pronounced changes of seasons and were associated with harvest time, times of floods and droughts, increasing colorful gods who were responsible for the increasing number of facets that humans dominated (agriculture, fisheries, livestock, weapons, war, construction, and so on).
For people who dominated these religions (shamans, high priests, whatever) ensure that his followers would remain faithful to the rites (and bear in mind that these people were always very simple and illiterate, with the greatest fear to the stranger), tried to invent and disseminate stories to help develop this fear, where vengeful gods punished those who dared not genuflection to his will. Curiously, this will only know those high priests could or shamans. I guess you follow me.
Of course, if there was someone who needed to scare him not to destroy the whole system created (and the possible loss of power of the religious caste) were those who were taking these stories as what they were scare stories and control other people. These people could not be scare, so the option to shut down their mouths was obvious: they had to kill them. Thus arose the "infidels" who are not moved by blind faith to a cult or a leader, and who were the enemies of the faithful because it was they who provoked the wrath of the gods, and therefore his revenge. Well, or so say the priests, who were not missing fans wanting to hurt others (bloodlust, another meme innate to the human species, a close friend of religion).
Imagine two thousand years ago, among the religions prevailing in an area of \u200b\u200bthe planet (the polytheism of Greece and Rome, with a convoluted story that they were the "soap opera" of the moment, and Judaism, a follower since ancient times for strict one God), comes a movement broadly, is to complain so much bloodshed by distinctions of belief or gender or race, so much hypocrisy in saying you have faith in something and then act in a completely opposite. This movement has the audacity to say, neither more nor least, we should all put aside these petty differences and love each other equally.
It's beautiful, right? Oh, but we are human. In addition to the meme meme religion and the thirst for blood, the meme still the need for power, another great friend of the previous force and which has been combined throughout history. People who dominated the world and many people thought could not admit that if there was a god, it treats everyone equally and everyone could access it without "special people" intermediaries. So, as with the phone crazy (have you ever played? Is very funny) began to pass the message over and over again, distorting the way each time a little more, until finally the message said, "You must do what is proposed from the upper echelons of the Church, which are those with the most contact with God and the only able to decide on these issues, because if you do not, you will be angry with God and will go to Hell to suffer forever, on the contrary, if you do what you suggest, when you die you will have a special place in heaven where you will be provided happy. "
If you are as smart as it is your father, you will have seen immediately that the original message which we heard is "subtly" different. So, today, there hordes of people who think they are following who said "Quereo all much" hating and trying to make life impossible, just pretend that schools no longer be a symbol of unnecessary suffering of a religion built on to phagocytose other symbols that already existed at the time of its creation.
me a favor, small: try to learn religion. But not "Roman Catholic Church, which is what occurs today. Learn history (and prehistory) of religions. We need to understand to what extent they get involved with your father, that get you are foolish and insensitive people who think they are doing right. You'll need to know why it is so important to have people like your father to defend the wisdom of just normal life, without living under the yoke of superstition or mythology. And if you say that if you do not want religion, then also load the Christmas ... bring them to talk to me, and I will explain how to love thousand STOLE religion that existed before the holiday at the time (the winter solstice as we mentioned before, remember?), consisting of the celebration of the beginning of the season in which the days are becoming longer and more light there, when "the light comes into the world." I'll explain how they tried to this event meant that they wanted to attract more people to "your party." It's as if you meddle in the birthday party of a friend and claim to have set yourself. It is very despicable, right? For just the creeping is the people who now gets to you. It also gets us indirectly. And I write this, so I want to make this written record that "we are here we are with you."
The winter solstice marks the time of year when the days are becoming increasingly long and bright, remember. Ever more light, more and more and more flower plants, make more heat. You must remember, because your father is trying, on behalf of many people, fight the darkness that clouds the brains of those other people, against the darkness that is afraid and needs that others fear to her.
Help him spread the light, and give him a hug for me. You are not alone, and neither are you. We are not alone. Happy Winter Solstice to everyone.
