Organized Religion

Organized religion in society is a form of quellment for the citizens of that society. It keeps the people happy and in line and helps to stop revolts. People are naturally inquisitive. This is a fact. And these naturally inquisitive individuals want things to be explained. Religion fulfills these requirements in all rights and aspects. Religion should not, however, be forced upon people. Choices in such matters give the individuals a feeling of freedom. A feeling of repression leads to revolts, the very thing that religion is employed for. People who embrace atheism are also inquisitive, but in different ways. They wonder why religion is necessary. They don't believe in a higher being who created the universe, and they search for more scientific reasons for this event. Their form of non-religion, as unorganized as it may seem, has structure. This structure is just very different from religious structures around the world.

Religion, when overly ruly, is not successful. Anger is created through forced thoughts. This is like a machine or experiment. The more variables present, the less likely a system is to work. Variables, in this case, would be rules imposed by churches. However, if religious figures just sit back and only impose the most necessary of rules, the system will work. This can be seen in the Puritans. The Puritans were very disciplined. They had rules for just about everything. When these religious peoples came to the New World, their rules were still THERE, yet they were no enforced. Thus, they ignored and attacked these rules. This eventually led to rationalism. Rationalists did not have many rules. In fact, they were open to any religion that they may so choose to listen to. All of this was brought on by overimposed rules in their religious society.

Organization in Religion is somewhat necessary, though. Rationalism was the other extreme counterpart to Puritanism. With less , guidelines, we'll say, they lost all sight of religion. Losing their sight was not good for morale, and these people may not have known WHAT to believe.