A brilliant dismissal of religious hypocrisy, the kind of religion where rituals and tradition couple with social conformity and the fear of death to take the place of real searching for truth and authentic goodness.
The line "How'd you dare to tell me that I'm my father's son when that was just an accident of birth?" is an argument for how stupid the idea is that we all have some kind of responsibility to carry on the religious tradition of our forbears and observe the same rules. rituals, laws, and traditions. We all could easily have been born into another tradition, and then we would be somehow obligated to observe a completely different "book of rules". But it we seek out a real vision of truth, God, and meaning without being tied down to all of the superficial nonsense and dogmatic conformity, we can become free from the stupidity. We may end up being excommunicated or we may be looked at as a fool or some kind of menace to society and its ways, but we will at least be free of all of the nonsense and have a chance to see the truth.
A brilliant dismissal of religious hypocrisy, the kind of religion where rituals and tradition couple with social conformity and the fear of death to take the place of real searching for truth and authentic goodness.
The line "How'd you dare to tell me that I'm my father's son when that was just an accident of birth?" is an argument for how stupid the idea is that we all have some kind of responsibility to carry on the religious tradition of our forbears and observe the same rules. rituals, laws, and traditions. We all could easily have been born into another tradition, and then we would be somehow obligated to observe a completely different "book of rules". But it we seek out a real vision of truth, God, and meaning without being tied down to all of the superficial nonsense and dogmatic conformity, we can become free from the stupidity. We may end up being excommunicated or we may be looked at as a fool or some kind of menace to society and its ways, but we will at least be free of all of the nonsense and have a chance to see the truth.