The Paradigm Of Duty

Religion, like many other aspects of human culture, has its fair share of advantages and disadvantages. Well, to be honest, religion is a particularly dangerous aspect of our culture; not because it is wrong – or right – but because of its inherently powerful, authoritative, and influential nature. Religions generally devise a mass scripture instructing how, why, and for whom to live and apply it to millions – sometimes billions – of diverse and unique people. They also tend to wager your life somewhere in there as well, granting you eternal bliss if you unquestioningly oblige or damnation in the fiery pits of hell if you decide to take your own route.

Fortunately, religion as of late has become more invested in ameliorating their hypocrisies, inconsistencies, fallacies, and so forth. Thus, I believe the most important misunderstanding of my myth lays at its heart – an archaic and ludicrously false generalization of religious people – and their opposites. Religious people are not inherently altruistic; but more importantly, ascribing to a religion brings absolutely no statistical bearing on one's altruistic nature. In fact, by definition, religious people acting 'altruistically' in the name of their god, religion, or church are not altruistic at all. Altruism must not have, as a motive, the motivation of duty to something or it is not considered altruism.