Are there certain conditionings like guilt, fear, and jealousy that are common across all religions and cultures?
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"Organized religions thrive on guilt and fear, labeling natural joys as sins to maintain control, while jealousy and monotony are the byproducts of their oppressive doctrines."
According to Osho, all organized religions depend on universal conditionings of guilt and fear to control people: they label natural joys as sins, threaten hell, and thus keep masses obedient and miserable. They also enforce monogamy and ban divorce, which breeds jealousy, monotony, and hypocrisy (e.g., prostitution). These strategies are common across traditions—Christianity merely states them more bluntly—because they nourish priestly power.
Religions often make you feel bad and scared about being happy, and set relationship rules that create jealousy, so they can stay in charge.
Why this matters practically
- Notice and drop inherited guilt and fear around joy, love, dance, and expression.
- Question imposed relationship rules; choose arrangements that reduce jealousy and increase honesty.
- Replace obedience to threats with awareness, responsibility, and celebration.
- Question imposed relationship rules; choose arrangements that reduce jealousy and increase honesty.
- Replace obedience to threats with awareness, responsibility, and celebration.
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