Is my Religion built on crutches?
February 8, 2026 Can salt ever lose its saltiness? Scientifically, the answer is that Sodium Chloride, the essence of salt, can never lose its saltiness, but when it is mixed with other impurities and then is exposed to moisture, water etc, ( for it is hygroscopic, i.e. attracts water, or for other reasons), then the water can leach away the sodium chloride, and the remaining powder that seems like salt is no more salty. Is that the same with our practice of religion? - that our following of the essential message of Jesus is mixed up with a lot of accretions that are naturally added on to it over the centuries, - rituals, dogmas, structures, rules, and the like - all of which are meant to be helping us to follow the teachings of Jesus. And somehow, we begin to focus on those accretions, and then without our knowing it, sometimes all that remains are those visible or tangible accretions, which we then fight to defend and retain, while unknowing...
