New Religions Are As Stifling As The Old

Modern man has shucked off most of the restraints of traditional religion. While a majority of people still say they believe in God, or at least in some form of higher being, they have rationalized their belief system so as to owe no real tribute to their ill-defined deity.

No longer are they bound by the sanctions and rules dictated by the old-time religions.
But instead of enjoying their liberation, their freedom from the inconvenient "thou shall nots," they're embracing a different sort of puritanism and welcoming equally suffocating restrictions in deference to the new gods of health and the environment.

These new faiths, in practice, are amazingly similar to the old.

They have their own schedule of sins and vices and are just as intolerant and judgmental of those who stray from the path of righteousness. Full Story

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