When
The Religion “Institutionalized”
By:
Saddam Husain
In essence,
spirituality is inseparable with mankind. Human wants happiness, peace,
kindness, and pleasure. Besides that, human endeavors to avoid cruelty, chaos,
and disintegration. Shortly, everyone wants to live in the world harmoniously. For long time, with comprehensive
understanding about religion is able to serve what human wants in life.
Ironically, when the religion is institutionalized, the essence of religion
transforms into an ideology, new axiom that bounds humanity in the numb rules.
It
has been believed for all of each adherent that religion promises the good
thing for human kind. “Islam” promises
happiness, Christianity with its love, Hindu and Buddhism with their asceticism.
Every religion, as the way of life expresses its teaching in the own way. In
this essay, I would like to talk about the different ideology dynamics of Islam
that creates the “institutions” and its effect in social context of life.
It
has been believed that, by organizing the people through some organizations can
ease the government to manage the society. Because of organization of religion
the structure in social context will e more arranged. We may see some
organizations in Indonesia for instance, Muhammadiyah, NU, Wahdah, HTI and so
on. Hey show their own characteristics so that the ordinary people may enter to
them and then live in moral, value, and culture.
However,
the appearance of some organizations in Islam has been believed as the impact
of different ideologies. Furthermore, when the religion institutionalized it
creates two terms namely “insider“ and “outsider”. Insider means, the member of
certain institution who see their friends bound with their own rule and tradition.
On the other hand, “outsider” means the other people out of insider’s
institution.
Personally,
I think that it’s not matter when religion appears in new face because that is
kind of religious dynamic. As long as it can improve the integration of society
everything is ok, but when it becomes new axiom, ideology, and alienation it
causes disintegration for society.
In
conclusion, religion in essence comes to build a beautiful relation for human
kind. When religion becomes the pretext to humiliate, alienate, and even
destruct the people means religion lose its substance.
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