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DIFFERENT FROM RELIGIONS,
BECAUSE RELIGIONS SEEK TO CEMENT THE WORLDLY ORDER
WHEREAS SPIRITUALITY SEEKS TO ESCAPE IT?! Often enough, one of the most important obligations
for spiritual wanderers is to challenge the beliefs & conventions of dominant religions. In Zen Buddhism it
is said that 'If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!' Which means that if while walking on the spiritual
path you encounter rigid ideas and fixed laws of institutionalized Buddhism, you must free yourself from them
too! For religions, spirituality often also is a dangerous threat?! Religions typically strive to rein in the spiritual
quests of their followers, and many religious systems have been challenged not by laypeople preoccupied with
food, sex & power, but rather by spiritual truth-seekers who expected more than platitudes. Thus a Protestant
Reformationist revolt against authority of a Catholic Church was ignited not by hedonistic atheists but rather by
a devout ascetic monk, Martin LUTHER. THIS Monk wanted answers TO existential questions of life, and refused
to settle for the Roman rites, traditional heathen rituals and shady deals by 'The Church'?!! In Luther's day, thàt
dominant Church promised its own diverse followers some very enticing corrupt deals indeed! Ìf yóu sìnned, ànd
feared eternal damnation in the socalled afterlife àll yóu nééded to dó wàs ópen yóur pùrse & búy an indulgence!
In the early 16th century this Church employed therefore Her professional 'Salvation Peddlers' who wandered all
towns & villages of Europe & sóld anyone their 'indulgences' for Fixed Prices! Do yóu tóó wànt an entry visa to a
supposedly Safe Heaven? Then just simply PAY 10 gold coins! You wànt your dead Grandpa Heinz and Grandma
Gertrud to jòin yóu thère? No problem at all, but it will cost you 30 coins! The most famous of these peddlers, a
Dominican Friar Johannes Tetzel, allegedly said that the moment the coin clinks in the money chest, a soul flies
'out of purgatory to heaven'! Nowadays his role is copied by State Taxes, Official Shrinks and Secret Services?



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