| The Authoritarianism of Religious Anarchisms Anarchy or the abolition of all power necessarily is equated with utmost freedom. Many people believe freedom- especially when it is reffered to the Unitied States- as to believe in whatever religion you subject your self to. Many anarchists (with the exception of the collectivists, communists, and most social ecologists) regard it as a freedom for people to believe and practice their certain religion as long as they are not trying to rebuild capitalism or the state. What these anarchists necessarily fail to realize is that although they claim to be against capitalism and the state (physical oppression) anarchists (especially) who believe in religions are submitting themselves and thus being controlled be a psychological oprression- or Big Brother; their religion. Like the role of an internal government, they are to follow certain laws that they believe are right or that their goddess(es)/god(s) believe are right. They must also bind themselves to how they act physically and at times suppressing their emotions so as not to violate or offend others around them but also not to offend their goddess(es)/god(s). It in turn creates an unhealthy de-humanizing effect on the phsycy as well as can through the act of worship, lead to pathological problems such as co-dependence etc. This suppression of the wild, can overtime, detatch a person from their emotions and feralness, adding to that which already has been stolen from them by civilization through means of the symbolic (time, language, number, art) ironically driving them furthur away from what they claim to be searvhing for- peace and happiness. They may claim to be against capitalism and the state, but are by no means free; and as long as they subject themselves to religion, they will always be ruled by their own imagined authoritarianism. |