”The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.”
Salman Rushdie
Any kind of institutionalised spirituality – more commonly known as 'religion' – can never be anything else but idol-worship. In the following I will explain why all religions in their essence are based on idol-worship and elaborate on the consequences of such idol-worship.
