I really don't know why people are so very touchy when it comes to religion. Haven't they realized yet that it's all the same thing? God presents himself (I don't actually believe God is male, but for the sake of my sanity, I'm using that term) in the form that's most convenient to the region he happens to be.. presenting himself in at the time. After all, the Christian God is usually perceived as an old white man, but that sort of thing wouldn't really fly well over in India, now would it? So, God has to relate to his demographic.. He's like a politician, only less smarmy.
There are so many faults when it comes to religion, and most of those faults were made because humans are complete dumb-asses. Humans are faulted by nature. It's our jobs to make as many faults as possible, then blame others for them. And when we find faults in other people, rather than being intelligent and welcoming, we stone them to death. So why the hell are we trusting humans to come up with all the answers to religion and the after life and what's right or wrong?
Humans wrote the Bible and, though they say it's the word of God, how are we supposed to trust them? They lie. A lot. Humans are faulty liars, and we're relying on them to make the rules? I think I see a flaw in that plan. After all, why are you trusting a book that was written thousands of years ago, when women were practically property and people didn't even know that there were other countries beyond their back yards? Would you try to use an instruction manual from twenty-five years ago to fix a new-model refrigerator? No, so why are you trying to use an instruction manual from thousands of years ago to fix your lives?
Furthermore, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to die a fiery death in the pits of Hell for writing all this because I don't believe there's a Hell. People are always trying to find consequences for things so that they appear right simply out of fear, and I don't really think that's how any higher power wants it to go. After all, one can't be punished for believing the wrong thing because there's no definitive proof that what they're believing is really wrong. And, if there really was a single truth when it comes to religion, God would just tell us so. He can do that, you know - he's omnipotent. It'd be a piece of cake for him to just appear to every single human being on this planet and say "____ is right. Do it or else." and, because he hasn't done it, I'm left to assume that he really doesn't mind what we believe.
We're like God's ant farm. It's all fun when we're fighting and working and building and doing our thing, uninterrupted, but it's not all that wise to stick your finger in the middle of the colony.
Julia Dream · Sun Jun 25, 2006 @ 11:44pm · 0 Comments |