INDIVIDUALITY ......

What crushes individuality the most in life is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it's enforced by the will of god, through his religions, or the will of men, they all use the same brutal ways and fear tactics and strategies, to suppress people and individuals and individuality.

It is obvious that the Western and modern view of the value of individuality, took some serious efforts and long sacrifices, extending from the fall of the western Roman empire to the 1300 and 1400 years of the Christian era . Whereby the different primitive societies of Europe started slowly an age of emancipation, and the church was slowed down and became more of a silent witness to a more European influenced progress at the hands of individuality, and enlightened individuals all through the old continent .

Even classical Papal power got diminished with many kings and princes rebelling, and after the Protestant upheaval and its migration to America . Classically , Greeks, Romans, and later European middle-ages encouraged individualism and personal achievement and creativity, rivalry and enlightenment, free thinking and liberalism, until it almost became the reigning trait of modern life in the West. While the other two Monotheistic cousins, Judaism and Islam suppressed it for the benefit of God and the entire religious hierarchy and flock of believers .

This aspect of European and later Western history led to more liberty and freedom and diversity, to more individualistic creativity within their societies than the others, where they led invariably to more oppression , closure of the minds and the imposition of more restrictive rules and religious laws upon  individuals and society .

The firm belief that justice, dignity and basic human rights, mean conformity and total obedience to religion, was enforced by all religious institutions, and generally only intoxicated with power tyrants dared to outmaneuver religious powers to their benefit. Otherwise everyone must dress like all others, and every woman is ordained to her role of house-wife and mother .

Religious principles and ideas of improvement basically consist in persuading or literally forcing all others to be as good as ourselves, individuality has no place in our sphere and societies, and every believer has to keep fighting it . Every religion and every religious group, historically or presently   aspire to bring about obedience and a general similarity among mankind, and surely at least among their compatriots . All and any deviation is contrary to the nature of the divine and is considered impious, immoral, even monstrous .

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