Is There a Place in Religion, Religious Organizations, Mysticism or Mystery Cults for Thinking or Inquisitive Believers and Inquirers, or for that matter our more educated classes of citizens or skeptics, who simply hunger and thirst after all of the truth, anymore? 

Has religion had its chance to explain cosmology and cosmogony or the who, what, when, where and why of all things?

And what happens when you outgrow retrograde mystiism, dark glasses and religion at the church, mosque, synagogue, or the prelate, pastor, imam, priest, shaman, witch doctor, warlock, spiritualist ... or good and often sincere people who are merely stuck in their preferred or favorite polemic? Jesus, was crucified when he reached this stage in his life, when at first he attempted to stretch his comrades. But the final result was that he was alienated, persecuted, rejected and crucified at the behest of religious-zealots and sycophants who refused to move beyond their fixed paradigms.  History, seems to be repeating itself in religious circles all over the world

We have reached that point 2000 years later, where individuals who have moved beyond the rudimentary principles, and are attempting to grow or to be fulfilled, are being persecuted, made fun of, rejected, castigated and in some instances put to death for merely doing what our sisters and brothers ought to be doing, advancing.

Now some will say that you cannot advance in God, individuals of this sort tend to confuse their personal makeup with the will of God. And by that I mean that some people are conservative, some have fixed ideas and refuse to change them. Others are flatly skeptical of anything that does not jib with their fixed ideas or the conclusions that they have drawn.

Sadly, individuals who I believe are as in love with what we refer to as God, perhaps even more than their contretemps, are being placed on crosses all over the world. My personal belief and manner of life has always been, never permit someone else, who is as human as you are, to limit you or 'box you in', given their understanding of things, fear and a need to control other people and ideas.

Someone once wrote, that we are at the beginning of knowledge, not at the end. And I would add, that religious people, especially religious-zealots of the kind who have fixed ideas, are impenetrable and unmovable worship the god of religious zealotry and fanaticism. Because of their fixed ideas, they never move forward, in fact, oftentimes – they either stand still or regress.

Consider Reverend Camping, a long-time minister and pastor who is clearly in love with his own mind and ideas. However, consider the number of people that he championed. And when you take into consideration their activities, particularly their form of evangelism and proselyting, one can only wonder how many people these folks damaged, or caused to doubt further.

What we refer to as God, the entity that conceptualized, planned and in this place, created a uniform universe, has to be exponentially larger than retrograde religion. If religion organizations don't change, I believe that they are going to be 'left behind', as opposed to other individuals being 'left behind'. In fact, the majority of the intolerant groups that have fixed-ideas and will not grow or permits others to do so are already behind.

What will happen to the individuals who discover one day soon, I believe, that they have been trapped in a mind warp, that has held them in place, while we refer to 'as God', has been trying to bring them forward. Yes, I am saying that religious groups, are possibly, what we refer to as God, it's number one enemy. 

Does this speak to the issue of defection, that is occurring among our current generation, a trend that is the opposite of what has occurred historically in religion, that young people are more prone to believe in God during adolescence and pre-pubescence?

I do not believe that we have to loose another generation, because sincere and vintage stalwarts, are incapable of moving forward, and that is my proposition!

Solomon

More on this ... I assure you!  Thank God for religious icons like Mendel, Sir. Isaac Newton ... who helped civilization to get as far as we have, even though it appears that we appear to be stuck all over again!.