Jersey Flight: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE FREE FROM RELIGION? -Jersey Flight

Saturday, April 25, 2015

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE FREE FROM RELIGION? -Jersey Flight

Religious emancipation is not liberation from any particular institution, but from a superstructure of thought that threatens to repeatedly enslave the subject by means of authoritarian premises. In order to get beyond religion one must get beyond this superstructure, and in order to get beyond this superstructure one must be able to resist its impression, which is an impression based on authority. I am only free from religion when I am free from the superstructure of religion. One is mistaken if they think this superstructure is specific to religion, but is instead, a general system of thought that entraps the student by means of fallacy and false dichotomy, by which it also contrives its solutions, thereby solidifying its authoritarian propositions. Once the student affirms these propositions he is trapped in the system. One must learn how to question the emotional and intuitive obviousness of these propositions. One must be capable of resisting authority before one can be free from the superstructure of religion.

To be religious does not simply mean that one adheres to, practices, believes in, a religion, but that one is caught in, committed to, a superstructure of thought (a web of belief) a superstructure of propositions, in other words, one has been mastered, is now subservient, powerless against (as in not being able to refute or resist)... one is the victim of this thought...

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About Me:

Jersey Flight can be considered as a sort of left-wing version of Nietzsche. He is an iconoclast against all forms of cultural superstition, including elitism and academia. His intellectual interests include, defining and expanding the psychological qualities that account for advanced thinking, as well as collaborating a method for its culturation. He has repeatedly challenged intellectuals to transcend theory and fulfill their social responsibility to engage culture through polemics. His writing style is consciously concise; an anti-scholastic, he tries to communicate complex ideas in simple prose. He has written multiple volumes of philosophy that have not yet been released to the public. He is the Director of Interdisciplinary Research at the Institute for Advanced Dialectical Research.