The Human Religion

The human race is inherently religious. Even when we abandon churches, we build new altars. Even when we throw away God, we sanctify something else, be it ideology, science, therapy, beauty. We cannot help ourselves. We worship.

That is why mindfulness becomes prayer. Yoga becomes liturgy. Veganism becomes purity law. Feminism becomes creed. Woke culture becomes church. Even anti-woke ideology becomes its own inverted catechism. Each of these begins as a path to awareness or justice but ends as ritual, repetition, dogma.

This instinct is not evil in itself. It binds us together, gives us meaning, protects us from despair. But it is also a trap. The moment we stop challenging what we believe, it hardens into religion. The moment we stop asking if our gods are lies and rest in “knowing” we are lost in our own dream.

That is why every age, every movement, every person must systematically turn the knife against their own darlings. We must dismantle the very things we love most, not because they are worthless, but because our tendency to idolize them makes them dangerous.

Truth only breathes in movement, never in the stillness of knowing. And in that sense truth is a journey, not a destination. Which is why it will never let us rest.

The price of being human is eternal heresy. To remain awake, we must smash the idols we ourselves erected. Otherwise we are not seekers, but sleepwalkers, chanting prayers to gods we invented, and forgot to doubt.