Peoples Religion is Only Formal

                               

People don’t really want to be religious; their religion is only formal, it does not mean anything – it is a Sunday religion.

They go to the church, they go to the temple, they go to the mosque – it is
respectable, and they are good meeting places.

Churches are like clubs, very formal; they don’t change anything in you, but they give you a good feeling about yourself, that you are religious.

The people who go to the churches, to the temples, to the synagogues, are going for absolutely wrong reasons.

What are their reasons for going there?

They are going there to pray to God to
grant them some of their wishes, so that some of their desires will be fulfilled.

They have tried hard and they are not succeeding, and they would like God to do some miracles for them.

They are going there in search of some miracles, they are not interested in discovering the truth.

But, yes, they are immensely interested in beautiful lies, consolations, confirmations that they are good, that whatsoever they are and wherever they are is perfectly right.

And the priests have been doing this business: first they create guilt in you and then they console you.

Guilt makes you go to the churches, to the temples, because you feel uneasy, and then the priest consoles you, helps you.

He has created the wound in the first place and then he puts ointment on your wound and you feel very good.

Osho