A Concise, Idealist Argument Against Organized Religion, Government, and Crime

How subjects as personal as religion, government, and crime can be so overly organized (and therefore diluted) in our world truly baffles my mind. They all started out so…nonexistent. Then, they increasingly lost their purity throughout the ages until they became the bastardized cousins of their true forms that we now know them to be. ....

Without organized government, there would be no organized crime. The large structures that mafias and gangs use would be obsolete and, frankly, altogether unnecessary. Governments establish ownership, and without ownership, greed and power would be so diminished that crime would be used mainly as retaliation for personal vendettas—poor people would not have to steal food or money to provide for their families, because poor people would not exist.....

In its purist forms, I have no problem with religion (I’ve already established that crime would not really exist without government, so I’ll stop wasting words on it). Religion is such a fiercely personal thing that it cannot be found to be identical in two different people. Each person brings their own unique past, present, and future together to create spirituality within themselves, and I have never been able to understand the big deal about how they express that spirituality and what name they call their personal higher power, if they have one. ....

Personally, I embroider. Embroidery brings me clarity and, through clarity, guidance. Clarity and guidance are why others meditate or worship gods and goddesses (or whatever). I strive to be a better person, simply to be a better person—not to please some higher being or call dibs on a spot in the afterlife. Why does it matter to others WHY I am striving to be a better person, or HOW I find my clarity and guidance, so long as I am doing it? ....

When religions become organized, shit goes awry. The Christians raped the Pagan religions and bastardized their holidays, and forced millions to convert. The Jews and Muslims are getting distracted from their God and what HE would want by land wars and laws and arguments which, in reality, matter very little in the grand scheme of things. Christians want everyone else to be like them, and Buddhists just wish we could all get along. Everybody believes that everyone deserves to live and nobody deserves to kill, but we cannot seem to put that into practice.....

We cannot stop killing because the organized governments say this is OURS and not THEIRS, and how dare THEY try to take it from us?? Organized governments say WE are right and YOU are wrong, because WE say so. ....

The purist of governments is still a government, which still establishes ownership (which encourages greed which results in crime).....