Put plainly, religious exclusivity is the belief that my religion is the only true religion and the other are bullshits. (Bullshit is a PC word compared to what preachers say about people who do not belong to their religions and the traditional nomenclatures they use ranges from infidels, condemned, pagan, unsaved, children of Satan, demons, witches, etc. :Bullshit" is way, way kinder than these terms and to think that some religions even behead people who do not subscribe to their beliefs. Definitely, bullshit is much better) .
Another idea of religious exclusivity is the conviction that only those who belong to my religion would go to paradise. Well, to tell the truth, not even all those who are in my religion will go to paradise because there's a selection process that the believers must go through it like indoctrination, infant circumcision, prayers, pilgrimage, holy wars, etc. Even those who have participated and met these requisites do not automatically become saved, there is the other part, the inner conversion, the miraculous transformation of the believer, the spiritual thingy.
Now, if one sits down and give enough focus to think about it, religious exclusivity is one of the the roots of all evil. I would not even dare say it is religion because there are religions that would not evend are hurt an insect!
Open your history books and you'll realize that most if the misery in the world is caused by this idea of religious exclusivity. Even today, watching the current event in the Middles East I am inclined to think that this area of the world is suffering from dark age because the region is divided into religious factions each killing one another primarily because of the differences in the interpretation of their holy books and secondly because the schisms are being taken advantaged of by the Western, primarily Christian part of the world, to advanced their interests.
The idea of exclusivity goes back to the primordial soup and the microbes. Microbes based their survival in one scientific principle of physics and that is "no two objects can occupy the same space at the same time. So, what the microbes do is multiply fast and produce enzyme or whatever you call these stuff they produce to displace another microbes. they congregate and those who are not within their congratulation are displaced and then exterminated.
Exclusivity is a survival mechanism. It is built in to every living things' DNA from the microbes to Bill Gates. Animals form packs, herds, schools etc, to protect themselves from their predators and also these animal group protects them from their own kind in their struggle for food and territory. People are not the different, though we have evolved and transcended the animals' feral and primal struggling for survival, yet exclusivity is still humanity's primary defense mechanism against each other though unlike the animals, people tend to cling to exclusivity out of greed and not out need.
Socially, for us exclusivity is primarily genetics. We form group from families, to clans, to tribes, to nation from which sprung up belief system. Religion is nothing but an extension of social genes which is correlated to bioligcal genes through the environment and through exposure. etc.
One current proof of the veils exclusivity is what Trump is doing now?
It is understandable now why this idea is easily translatable into the beliefs or faiths. Relgiuos exclusivity especially among the Abrahamic religion is primarily a survival mechanism which in the process of historical evolution has become the mechanism for oppression and control.
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