The Story You Don't Know

The reason why the truth hurts.

Excerpts from my suffering.

“Why is faith without religion a myth?”

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The Easy Way Out : The Relationship of Faith and Religion

Religion is as significant as food is in our lives. Without it life would be mechanical and materialistic[i] similar to what the Culture Industry tells us about art. Both will be under the hegemony of popular culture mindlessly following ideas that make life easier by thinking less and less, The Culture Industry telling us that amusement makes us avoid mental process[ii] while Caritas in Veritate gives us an idea that death is becoming a more preferred option because it is an easy way out to our problems[iii]. Like how Adorno and Horkhiemer described the movie as being formulated and is all alike in the end[iv] life without religion would be meaningless as humans will be live the same lives and die when time comes. On the flipside, if we have religions we would have moral grounds, yes, life would be more complicated but because of this life will have its own meaning. We find the truths and meaning of life in our suffering[v]. Suffering makes us think, it makes us who we are, it proves how different we are from each other and that we are not a bunch of interchangeable Lego pieces. But one cannot have religion without faith as faith is the act of believing in a religion.

We find it hard to answer the question “Why is faith without religion a myth?” because we ourselves do know the truth. We are born in this already complicated world, where no one knows surely what the truth is. This is also the reason why faith exits. We look into these so called truths and have faith in one that seems to be the truth for us. This challenge to identify the truth is complicated because of the pressures of the capitalistic society we live in gives us – it asks us to conform and to like every other person. Mass production of technological advancements truthfully lessens the burdens in life but it sacrifices the logic[i] the purpose and the freedom[ii]  then the community - because charity in truth builds it[iii] and truth is in the suffering.  Religion is this truth we have faith in without it everything will unravel in to a pleasurable myth where logically one would rather pick the pleasurable myth since it is the easy way out. It is true that with pleasure and entertainment we forget the suffering and this is a blissful way to live life but meaning is in suffering. But unfortunately in the present the capitalists are winning this argument since their fantastical advertisements of pleasure are selling, consumers still buy their products even if they do not have a real need for them[iv]

 

The option now is choose between a world of pleasurable lies and a world of painful truths.