If worldviews were pills…

… Which one would you take?
 
Israeli correspondent “MC,” writing at the Gates of Vienna, offers a very elucidating analogy using pills to represent the world’s basic belief systems ~

If we take the Bible, and the Koran, and we know that one or the other is true (we don’t), how would a scientist go about ascertaining which one is true? He would use the scientific method, probably by setting up a double blind testing process to see which one actually works. The red pill and the green pill (and the placebo of atheism). The one which is most healing and beneficial we assume to be closer to the truth. The red pill won hands down.
 
red-greenpillsThe green pill, Islam, has had a relative amount of success if one is interested only in numbers, but this limited success is achieved by suppressing free will and by keeping green pill people captive within family, tribe and clan structures, those who stop taking the green pill are killed. Thus its effect on the greater good is negative. It typically has to parasitize off of its neighbors in order to prosper. It is a culture of desertification, ransacking, looting and killing.
 
The red pill, the Bible pill, gave rise to the greatest civilization yet known to mankind. The red pill was not perfect. It had its faults, the greatest of these being a failure to perceive the benefits of the red pill civilization in comparison with the others. Red pill dissidents, influenced by the placebo culture, could only see the faults and the mistakes of their own pill when comparing it to the perceived imagery of the greener pill in the next valley, an image carefully cultivated by green pill-ers and placebo-ites to lure in the unwary.
 
The placebo has always eventually resulted in financial and physical mayhem: bankrupt societies, huge body-counts, or both […]
 

… a society needs an anchor, a reference point in a moral maze, and we need to keep returning to that reference point. Free will means that we can choose our reference point, and we can also choose not to have a reference point and take the placebo. We can choose a green pill and be in bondage, or we can choose a red pill and enjoy the benefits of a successful trial. Many are choosing the red pill, and are flooding in to the red pill society hoping to benefit from its success. Unfortunately, many of those are bringing the green pills with them in their baggage. They want to live in the beneficial aura of the red pill, but to keep taking the green pill. It just does not work.
 
Red + Green = Brown. The pill is no longer red, and we don’t know what the brown pills do to us. There are no trial results on brown pills…

Read the whole thing HERE (enjoy the accompanying fugue :) ) And choose wisely.

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