Some Infuriating Thoughts

Should people, in positions of power and authority, themselves possessing a superior education, employ sophistry, and feed people less fortunate, (And perhaps simpler and more naive), a mishmash of spiritual gobble de gook, guilt complexes and promises of blissful eternal reward that cannot be quite validated? Isn't that taking unfair advantage in the name of service?
I write this sincerely, having mulled over it for the longest time.

Rules regulations and framing protocols wouldn't be necessary if religion wasn't organized, (like the Mafia where you kneel to kiss the Godfather's ring), but a personal experience and revelation.  Instead of a Church mentality, (read herd mentality), young men and women should develop sound moral values on their own. It comes from within.
I do believe ultimately the Church does a lot of philanthropy and good work, but it kills the initiative to be good for it's own sake, dangling carrots of salvation and sticks of damnation in a primitive Pavlovian manner of conditioning.
Insecure and vulnerable young girls aspiring to be "Brides" of Christ, can be persuaded to see Christ/Father figures/ Saviours in the holy man garbed  in white, unfortunately not always so holy.
I was once told that the reason we cannot, having chosen to follow Christianity, also choose to pursue the best beliefs and precepts of other faiths, by being offered this convoluted piece of logic by a would be proselytizer.
"Would you tell your husband, you'll be his wife from Monday through Thursday, but then go to another man for the weekends?"
I flippantly replied, yup, if that was my original contract and definition of marriage, between me and my hubby.
But then I smiled and poured salve because she meant well.
I believe sadly that many who bear witness to their faith hold this up as the Trump card of their arguments.
But wait a minute here already!
Our relationship with God or His Son is not merely limited to spousal. That's limited simplistic and unnatural. It's just not confined to our parameters of earthly experiences. It's all that and More.
So it's maternal paternal filial spousal and well above and beyond our imagination.
So why should God in all His/Her  greatness demand exclusivity, in a childlike narcissistic manner, when He already encompasses ALL?
If I see Christ In Krishna, you think God hasn't covered all his bases?
You must be out off your mind.
Or trying to tell me not to use mine.
Because that would be like heresy and blasphemy.
The impudence to believe that one can be good without conditions, or conditioning, through personal experiences and human choice.

Enlightenment isn't Group Think, and God, Christ or genuine men of the cloth would not require groupies.

Perhaps service to humanity should be for it's own sake, with no strings attached. And perhaps the premises of one's own belief should be postulated, with conviction, (and evidence if any),but not with glib persuasions, and preferably always with qualifiers.
The essence of any fair and decent debate is after all the same openness to receive as to give. 😊