Nino Khviriliani

Organized religion – what we see today, is the other side of politics and they together create war.  The state, built on religious principles is very dangerous. The alarming situation in Ninotsminda  children’s boarding house hasn’t started today. The church has been totally ignoring the constitution for years. The government abandoned the children in order to maintain good relationships with church, these two can’t even exist without each other. Only the aware people can smash down this common net and the revolt and responsibility of each person can find the way out from this dead end for the country. The most important now is safety and psycho-emotional support of the children, the complex approach of the group of professionals, by all means including psychologists.

Generally, when we come across the violence, the part of society starts mostly to justify the oppressor or group of oppressors. This is symptomatic and we need to analyze why people feel solidarity with the aggressors. And the part, who adequately perceives the reality, is silent or can’t dare to counter the aggression publicly.

What is this silent protest in fact? This also is the comfort zone. It’s not enough, when you just separate yourself from the violence, this is the fear of the society and this fear should be destroyed.

In authoritarian religions the principle of freedom is broken and a person is blindly subordinated. The power of the church and government was growing for years because of a lot of frightened people with closed consciousness. The church and government officials know how manipulation and frightening effects the masses pshychologically, the goal of their ideology is no one to question them…that’s why this harmful institution is still breathing its last and only the awareness of each person can smash it down.

The people often say that they are afraid of god and they cover the clergymen. In fact this god is projected in their mind. Such mind doesn’t acknowledge the alternative ways and grips what it has built. These are irrational and obsessive fears of destroying the support which creates the comfort zone for a person to avoid responsibility and self-analysis.

If this church is associated with Christ, it means that a person is lost and is entangled in vicious circle, where the mental regress and neurosis are inevitable. Neurasthenic designs his or her own god, own idol in mind, is separated from the world and reality.

And it’s illusion to wait for peace in such state of mind. Only after making  the overfilled and conditioned mind free come the calmness and love.

Translated by Erekle Grigolia