TITLE:
The Cacophony of Emotional Spiritualism
AUTHORS:
Abraham Great
KEYWORDS:
Emotions, Politics, Culture, Values, Beliefs, Religion, Tradition
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.1,
January
31,
2023
ABSTRACT: Spirituality
has been a major part of human development. However, before spirituality got
the strand of religiosity, both spirituality and emotion were relatable. As
human development has grown, the concern now is that spirituality has been consumed
by religiosity. The missing link, however, is that humanity is no longer the
prevailing factor between humans. Tradition and religion have taken over the
place of human emotions such that human beings are no longer exhibiting pure
humanity. Here are the key questions that this paper will seek to answer: 1) Are traditions
proportionate to true humanity? 2) Is religion greater than
humanity? 3) Could there be true humanity without emotions—positive or
negative? 4) Can religion be blamed for certain human manipulations? 5) Is it
possible that religion and tradition actually diminish the human ability to
continue to grow in wisdom? This paper makes a case for humanity being superior
to tradition and religion. Even God (whom I believe the world’s greatest Data
Protection Officer) has given man the free will to choose between right and
wrong. Case studies that reflect the contradictions between religion and
several aspects of human engagements like politics, commerce, etcetera, will be
talking points in this paper. Likewise, anti-Semitism will be a strong talking
point in this paper. Part of my argument is that tradition seemingly provides a
cover that permits hypocrisy. Likewise, I am opposed to the act of prophecy. It
seems the human race is more ruled by our emotions which dictate our traditions
and religions. But behind every tradition is a die-hard emotional connection
that forms the belief that certain religions and traditions are superior to
others. Another focus of this paper is “Humanity in Pretense”, brought about by cowardly manipulations of
religion and tradition. Some case studies here will be the story of the great
philosopher—Socrates who was condemned by religion and tradition after he was
found guilty of “impiety” and “corrupting the young”, sentenced to death, and
then required to carry out his own execution by consuming a deadly potion. Furthermore,
the possibility that religion and tradition actually diminish the human ability
to continue to grow in wisdom has raised much concern. I am of a strong belief
that divinity enhances humanity and that, “It is spirituality that gives
vitality to physicality”. This is proven by evidence that divinity inspires
humanity, but “divinity finds expressions through spirituality”. However, this
process takes us to spirituality rather than religion; occurrences of dreams,
telepathy, trance, prophecies provide case studies of divinity coming to the
assistance of humankind. Unfortunately, these divine interventions in the human
adventure can also be manipulated and commercialized, where it is possible for
there not to be divinity but people try to replicate or manipulate encounters
by faking prophecies or misinterpreting as eschatology. Hence, this paper
argues that these divine interventions are real, but not all of their
deployment is.