Formal religiosity and formal faith

19.09.2026

  There is no disagreement among humans about values ​​of an absolute nature such as the values ​​of goodness and love, but there are great differences among humans about the practical implications of what are called the values ​​of goodness, Even the Creator is different from Himself and contradicts Himself regarding these implications, From the gate of a divine religion, we receive commands whose content is “Do not kill,” and from the gate of another religion, we receive commands to “kill.” The examples of the divine self being afflicted with a kind of schizophrenic duality are too numerous to count.

Despite all this, whoever is asked about the justifications or reasons for his adoption of a particular religious doctrine will answer that that doctrine provided him with an understanding of earthly life and death, which does not constitute the final form of death, Religious thought has been keen to invent another life that cannot be denied or confirmed, and has been keen to establish an integrated relationship between earthly life and the other life, that is, between reality and illusion. The illusion that promises good has turned good into something catastrophic for earthly life, which has been diminished and despised by illusions, and thus has caused it great harm. In the name of good and for the sake of good, homogeneity was imposed on the people of the nation, then a religion was imposed on the people of the nation, then a law was imposed on the people of the nation in ways that indicate a poor understanding of human nature, which knows nothing but difference, Suppressing difference is a great evil and represents the suppression of humanity, The list of impositions in the name of good and representing evil is very long and there is not enough space to discuss it in detail.

The sacred and the absolute represent the framework for interaction and dealing with religion, and the interaction of the self with religion represents what is called religiosity, If the absolute and the sacred become doubtful and disputed, then religiosity will become doubtful and disputed, Doubt is not the task of the other, but rather one of the tasks of the religious person, The religious person understands, perceives, doubts, reacts, evaluates, and discovers right and wrong. By turning his religiosity into a “formal” one, he condemns religion at its core and rejects religion in its entirety, Formal religiosity represents contempt for religion and an unconscious disdain for it, If it were not for the fear of the consequences of leaving the group and its bloody reactions, and of social execution and the rulings of apostasy, some would not have practiced the fabrications of formal religiosity. The essence of formal religiosity is not its hypocrisy and contradictions, but rather its expression of the absence of religion in this religiosity, i.e., the beginning of the end of religion.

Even in the formally religious East, there is an aversion to the religious phenomenon, which manifested itself in the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood and other jihadist groups, The reason for the aversion was enlightenment regarding the investment and consumption of religion, in a time that knows nothing but consumption, There is a deep similarity between religion and consumer culture manifested in the pattern of formal religiosity, which does not care about the interaction and reflection of religion on practices and behavior, as much as it cares about the practice of devotional rituals and the diligent work to show them visually in a way that superficially suggests the existence and dominance of religion, while the result is the opposite of that, Trading in religion by selling religion as formal religiosity denies the existence of religion, or expresses the absence of the existence of religion, i.e. the end of religion. Religion ended when the love of God, the representative of virtue, turned into hatred, hostility and rejection of others, then lying and fabrication, and We have not sent you except as a mercy to the worlds.

Social revolutions are revolutions for freedom, justice, and equality, while the religious revolution was primarily about the woman’s body, covering it, diminishing it, consuming it, and despising it, Discovering that women are deficient in intellect and religious understanding was more important than discovering the causes of violence. Discovering the causes of corrupting prayer was more important than discovering the causes of corrupting a poor, sick, violent, racist, and sectarian life. The word “sex” is considered impure… God forbid… and despite it being impure, Muslim Arabs broke records in their search for sex, Muslim Arabs are concerned, for religious reasons, with eliminating sexual temptations, yet they are the most eager to search for and delve into them, Contradictions without limits or boundaries!

From all that has been mentioned, it can be said that religion violates human dignity, Faith is not synonymous with spiritual purity and moral excellence, Drowning in illusions and superstitions, and drowning in wars, killing, and the practice of violence is not virtuous at all, The fact that man needed religion in the past does not mean that this need will continue in every era, What was beneficial in one historical context can turn harmful in another, A question regarding formal faith: Did believers know God when they shouted “There is no god but God”?