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Could religion be considered as a form of information entropy?

Asked by RealEyesRealizeRealLies (30951points) July 26th, 2009

There is an original essence to every spirituality. That is the primal information source. Transmission of that original information is carried out by those who actually incorporate it into their every day lives.

Along comes religion, claiming to broadcast the original information. Yet the original source message is muddled up a bit in the process, broadcast again, translated, changed a little to fit the purpose at hand, broadcast again, and again… again.

Soon there is so much noise on the line that the original essence can no longer be received as intended. Thus a new message has been authored, accepted, and transmitted again. A big ring game of whisper tell-tale.

All of these religions have their very own transmitters. Some of these towers of truth actually have a cross at the top to help boost the signal further.

For instance, how is it that common Christian teaching promotes salvation sheerly by the acceptance that Jesus Christ was/is God incarnate when Jesus Christ never said such a thing? The virgin birth, the crucifixion, the miracles… all irrelevant to the original message, acting as noise on the line preventing the intended signal from being heard clearly. Let’s remember that it wasn’t even called “Christianity” until religion got a hold of it. Before that it was known as “The Way”.

Then Mormonism comes along to transmit an entirely new signal… What gives?

And speaking of “The Way”, how is it that Alan Watts and Eckart Tolle changed that message into one of “The Now”, instead of the current, the present, the moment? How will I pass along The Way if I’m stuck in The Here and Now? Now here is nowhere.

For Jews it’s the Law of Moses. Claiming to boost the signal of the original Ten Commandments, the Law of Moses only served the purpose of men at the time and somehow convinced people that it was the Law of God. But God only transmitted the Ten Commandments. Moses did the rest.

I have the same issues with many legacy notions and their different interpretations from the Hindu Bhagavad Gita “Song of God” to Classic Darwinian Evolution. How did “random mutation” ever gain such wide acceptance when Darwin never mentioned it in Origin of Species? He mentioned the need for a mysterious, as of yet unknown process that could account for fulfillment of his original hypothesis. Did biology become a religion upon the race to find that process, calling it “random mutation” only to disguise a newborn dogma that really meant “we don’t have a fucking clue, but thanks for the grant money by thinking that we do”?

Could religion be considered as a form of information entropy?

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