" Religious teachings are seductive. They hold out the promise of wisdom. This is especially enticing to someone who has problems in life.
You think you are going to gain something extremely important. Religious and mystical teachings are filled with spiritual mysteries that need solving. And solving mysteris is something everyone likes to do. Indeed, mystery is a real drawing power of all forms of mysticims.
People who go into the spiritual on a deep level do so because they are seeking honesty, enlightenment and fairness. Tey desire a world were honesty prevails, where fairness and compassion are the rules. They are seekin an ideal way to live and deal with others.
but, what they do not realise is that the ultimate wisdom and enlightenment they seek is an illution. For, what the dedicated student of religion eventually discovers is that the core of religion is deception. Those few dedicated students who reach this breaktrhough either leave in disgust or are made teachers and spiritual leaders themselves in order to perpetuate the hoas. They rationalize that the people, the masses need the guidance and morality provided by religious doctrine".
....so starts the book I'm reading. I so agree with the above, this reasonates very much with me. I left religions behind in disgust. I do not need to follow anyone or anything. I know that all they offer is deception and illusions.