Religions and deviations

Why have religions been constituted as a factor of division among people on Earth?

Answering this question, the Englishman Richard Dawkins said: “Religions preach communion within their own limits. And promote separation from the others. Of course people are also divided between politics and ideologies. But, as for politics, we can at least discuss it. With religion it isn’t like that. By definition, religion is based on faith. You only say: ‘I believe because I do’. And then there are those who say: ‘If you believe in something different, I’ll have to kill you’.”

Because of such statements, the aforementioned scientist says that “men would live better without religious beliefs”.

Who can oppose such ideas? Nothing, if we understand “religions” the expression “dogmatic religions”, since Richard Dawkins is referring to the ones he knows of – Islamism, Judaism and Christianity – whose behavior towards those who think differently have been difficult.

Like that we had the Crusades and then the Inquisition, as History registered, a model of behavior that, in a smaller scale, has been copied by those who, in our days, kill on behalf of Allah and burn down temples and churches based on faith.

However, there are those who don’t act like such.

Spiritism is one of them and there’s no account in history about a persecution done by Spiritist Center. Not being a dogmatic religion, Spiritism doesn’t fear the scrutiny and analysis of its basis, quite the contrary, as it has been proved in various conferences and congresses that take place every year in academic places.

Confusing religion with “dogmatic religions” is, then, a mistake which doesn’t dignify the author of such thesis.

The misunderstanding about that may be compared to the reading of the first lines in chapter 1 of the book “Nosso Lar”, by André Luiz, who, after suffering in the Spirit World, found out that “something is over any thought merely material”. “This thing is faith, divine manifestation to the man.”