One day the Messiah's gonna come and everything's gonna be great!
Jesus is coming back and everything's gonna be great!
The Age of Aquarius is coming and everything's gonna be great!

a lot of religions depend on some mythical future in which everything will be set right. Evil will be punished and good rewarded. Do these promises make up for the lack of justice in the world? The seeming chaos and meaninglessness we float in?

There is a longing in every human heart for a better tomorrow. And it cannot be satisfied. Ever. Do religious institutions tap into that desire to create fanatical devotion and obedience? I cannot believe that the beginnings of most religions and especially the ancient wisdom traditions are so wicked.

We can never understand what it is that has made out universe. Our minds are cups too small to hold all that invigorating knowledge. So we must talk about the supernatural and metaphysical with metaphors. We place our experiences on the universe and the gods in order to understand them. Maybe these religious promises are just projections of that primal feeling.