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When human consciousness evolves sufficiently the need and purpose for religion will evaporate. Spirituality is very real. To deny spirituality would be to deny ourselves. Religion is a man-made device created by men who needed something to believe in. It is a farce. A mystical explanation was needed to give reasoning to a newly developed world view with a newly developing thought process. Don't get me wrong now most of what I believe in could be described as mystical or mythical but this a different point for consideration.

When I was born into this life, my parents were Jehovah's Witnesses. Before you discount my further statements, understand that my adult world view could not be further from the one I was born into. As a child I was fully enveloped in the ministry of said religious purpose. My mom taught me to read by the time I was four. By age five I was proficient enough for public speaking. At age six I was reading and preaching from the bible on a stage in front of Hundreds of people at a time. by age 10 I was devoting 90 hours a month into the full-time field service ministry. Yes I was knocking on doors with a biblical vengeance.

At puberties mid point my parents split up. It all happened so fast that even local witnesses to this day claim they have no idea how it all took place. One day the shackles that had held my mind captive were suddenly broken. I was like Saul on the road to Damascus when he was blinded then healed by the angel and the scales fell from his eyes and he became the apostle Paul.

Just because I am well-versed in Christian mythology does not mean I am a christian or that I identify with any christian religion, quite to the contrary in fact.

After I stepped away from the church and looked at things with my own eyes that had only just been opened. I took a journey through all that the worlds religions had to offer. Religion is all essentially the same. It all goes back to ancient ritual based on survival myth designed by newly opened consciousness seeking to explain what it could not see.

The JW's contacted me as a young adult trying to recruit me back into the fold. I told them what I thought about religion in general and them in particular. I did not bash their faith. My comments were directed to the people who approached me as individuals, since I had known most of them for my entire life, I felt it was suitable for me to get personal. As a result I was declared an apostate. They view me as in a similar league to the Catholic version of the anti-Christ. I don't assimilate myself as the Anti-Christ. To me that is no more or less valid than the God's on Mt. Olympus, or Valhallah.

If you want to take a biblical approach and decide to take the "path less taken", then you would have to go against the grain completely, and renounce all religion and ritual. The similarities inherent in ever religion, drawing christianity and satanism into the same flock, show that the broad road with many branches is religion it is government it is going with the flow, it is being one with the common denominator, it is a bad idea.