Religious phenomena, with the authorised clergy and the political and judicial authorities and laws based on the, have not been able to prevent the world from causing the great Armageddon whose effects still torture the whole of mankind
1500. It is naturally a matter of course that these beings ultimately cannot possibly be satisfied with this existence that they have sabotaged, or this destruction of all the good things of life that were to have turned existence into a perfect, divine experience of life. And this dissatisfaction then manifests itself in terrestrial mankind's increasing interest in stamping out this evil. And this interest results in the religious principle and the ensuing moral view and worship of God, which in turn later manifest themselves as political ideals, judicial laws and humanistic interests. But despite the fact that religiousness and the cultivation of morality have existed for thousands of years, they have not quite been able to turn the Earth into the paradise or the perfect "kingdom of heaven" that the terrestrial human beings really hunger and thirst for. Instead of a "lasting peace", a "day of judgment", an "Armageddon" or a "hell" broke out throughout the entire terrestrial human sphere. The religious phenomena, the authorised clergy with churches and priests, the many religious communities, the judicial system, the political movements and so on, have not been able to prevent terrestrial mankind from plunging into the destruction and disintegration of the cultural assets, works of art and intellectual production that it built up over thousands of years. Indeed, is it not the case today that the intellectual or academic world actually dissociates itself more and more from the moral preaching of religion, the church or the clergy and their concept of God, and regards everything religious as an expression of primitivity, superstition and ignorance? But this does not of course mean that religion, with its authorised clergy and priests, has been in vain – regardless of whether it be Buddhist, Muslim or Christian. On the contrary, the cultivation of morality that has arisen from the religious principle has most certainly brought human beings to their present mental stage. It is naturally only inevitable that through this guidance they have gained such a sum of life-experiences that they have grown beyond the preaching of the clergy and can therefore no longer believe in preaching, dogma or tradition but want facts or personal experience.
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