Perhaps the worst thing that ever happened to religion was whenever and wherever people decided to view certain texts as divinely inspired and to limit themselves to a given set of texts (known as a canon).

Unlike science, spirituality became tied down to and obsessed with what people said in the ancient past. In science and in most fields of study and practice, everything can be questioned, and nothing is sacrosanct. In fact, science grows by people questioning, challenging, and innovating. Good ideas are respected and tradition is valued, but only inasmuch as it is sound and useful, not for its own sake.

Religion, on the other hand, is so frequently dated, irrelevant, illogical, and often outright dangerous. Who thinks of “progress” when they hear the word religion? Why is religion so often most focused on ancient ideas, where is the innovation, creativity, and progress?

Some religious texts them have great ideas, some not so much, and all of them were written by people conditioned by their times.

There is no excuse in a global age with the knowledge we have available to us today to view any of the sacred texts of any of the major religion as perfect or sufficient. Any religion that continues to propagate such views deserves to be ridiculed.

If there is such a thing as spirituality, then it should be a realm of infinite progress and innovation. People should be writing newer and better “scriptures” constantly for we are evolving spiritually as a collective. But the situation we have now is tragically pathetic. It’s no wonder that people don’t take matters of consciousness/spirituality seriously.