Only one generation after the Beatle’s, John Lennon, suggested that we imagine a world with no religion; just who could imagine that religion is more profuse today than ever. Lennon said he was more well-known and popular than Jesus Christ, who could imagine that today there are millions of millennials who have no idea who Jon Lennon was?
Lennon may be just the saddest of the world’s prophets and one of the greatest masters of naiveté to ever stroke and lull a generation to give up the search for God.
His failure is based on the fact that man’s proclivity and tendency to religion is second only to his penchant for sin.
In fact, men will never give up religion – they will only change what and whom they are worshipping.
This fact is made clear when it is seen, according to Biblical prophecy, that when all religions are banned by the coming of the antichrist (2 Thessalonians 2:4) he then begins an entire new religion where only he (the antichrist) may be worshipped.
It is known as the ‘abomination of desolation’ (Matthew 24:15) and is the short lived period of the worship of man, a man who is in fact – Satan in the flesh.
It would be safe to say that religion is not what ends, but it is the world as we now know it that ends – because of a false religion.
Not only did Jesus rebuke the religious leaders of his day for traditionalizing the effectiveness of faith in God (Matthew 15:6) to the point of neutralizing it, but he lambasted them for ignoring the very prophecies that heralded his coming to the earth as the Savior of all men.
Yet, for all this, there is no contest and no real battle between the Bible and the Koran. One is evil and it takes no genius or spiritual giant to discern which one it is. Christ said he came to give men life (John 10:10) while the surest path to life according to the Koran is to take your own life or the life of another.
If the book you are trusting produces death, that should be the only clue needed to tell you where that revelation came from. If it is a life giving message then that ‘fruit’ is, according to Christ – all you need to know.
With only a little comparative religion 101 and a desperate hope that all religions should come under one happy roof called ecumenicism, religion parallels the deluded vision of the Galapagos galloper who noticed a few canaries with slight variations in their anatomy, from which he laid a trip on the entire world about how a mindless, unintelligent and nebulous 450 billion years (depending on which scientist you ask) magically created all species, all things – out of nothing!