So who is the God person anyway?
My Into to Eastern Religions class has resurfaced my whole "God Problem" again. This is the one point that me and the wife will consistently fight about. She was raised in a Baptist house and was never given the chance to find her own religion. This is what you are going to believe. Why? To perform the basic function of religion, to impose your views onto other people.
All organized religion is a crock. Clergy are no more than used car salesmen. I dare you to find me one that is not a pedophile, alcoholic, wife-beater, or scam artist. Organized religions also teach hate. What you say? No my church teaches love. Bullshit. Thou shalt worship no other gods than me. All other religions are wrong. There can be no other point of view. Other religions are intolerable. You must rid the earth of other religions and convert them all to mine. All other religions are to be feared and hated.
The more religious you are, generally the bigger the secret you have to hide. People use religion as the mask to their shame. God will forgive me because he loves me even though I set fire to my defenseless 6 week old child. Bullshit.
That brings me to the whole does he or doesn't he exist argument. If God is so good how does he let all the horrible things that go on on this planet happen? Two theories neither the wife is going to like. Theory A he doesn't exist. Theory B HE DOESN'T FUCKING CARE ABOUT US!!! Even if, on the remote chance, some supreme being populated this planet with life just to see what happened, we are no more than a science experiment. If He was that powerful He could intercede, so why not? He either can't or won't. Won't says He doesn't care. Can't says that we are no more that lab rats and He must let us play out our miserable little existences to the end.
Oh yeah and there is the Bible. Let me get this straight. You are telling me that a book that is over 2000 years old and stories that are even older than that are accurate? Please!!!! Did you ever play "telephone" in elementary school? It is a fact of the human condition that any piece of information will be distorted after its 3rd telling. The stories are probably so distorted by now that any truth that was originally there is long since gone.
Religion is also based upon hypocrisy. If you believe something you need to believe in it full time. Thou shall not swear? Thou shalt not covet another man's wife? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller? Bueller? You've heard of Easter Catholics and Sunday morning Christians, but nobody calls them what they are hypocrites.
By the way, if there is a God my money is on the fact that God is a woman. C'mon and tell me that a chick wouldn't start a mess like this and then leave it for her male half to step in and fix it.
I guess my beliefs fall closest to the category of Zen Buddhism. No supreme being. You do what is right because it is the right thing to do. No reward. The point of life is to live a good life.
Religion is based on tradition and plays upon the fact that nobody thinks critically about it. The people who do are outcasts and labeled heretics and atheists because they actually use the brain in their head.
And as I was afraid, the wife finds me writing this and an hour long fight ensues complete with tears and yelling. The point of the blog is to get it out. Look babe, I respect your position, I just want you to respect mine.
All organized religion is a crock. Clergy are no more than used car salesmen. I dare you to find me one that is not a pedophile, alcoholic, wife-beater, or scam artist. Organized religions also teach hate. What you say? No my church teaches love. Bullshit. Thou shalt worship no other gods than me. All other religions are wrong. There can be no other point of view. Other religions are intolerable. You must rid the earth of other religions and convert them all to mine. All other religions are to be feared and hated.
The more religious you are, generally the bigger the secret you have to hide. People use religion as the mask to their shame. God will forgive me because he loves me even though I set fire to my defenseless 6 week old child. Bullshit.
That brings me to the whole does he or doesn't he exist argument. If God is so good how does he let all the horrible things that go on on this planet happen? Two theories neither the wife is going to like. Theory A he doesn't exist. Theory B HE DOESN'T FUCKING CARE ABOUT US!!! Even if, on the remote chance, some supreme being populated this planet with life just to see what happened, we are no more than a science experiment. If He was that powerful He could intercede, so why not? He either can't or won't. Won't says He doesn't care. Can't says that we are no more that lab rats and He must let us play out our miserable little existences to the end.
Oh yeah and there is the Bible. Let me get this straight. You are telling me that a book that is over 2000 years old and stories that are even older than that are accurate? Please!!!! Did you ever play "telephone" in elementary school? It is a fact of the human condition that any piece of information will be distorted after its 3rd telling. The stories are probably so distorted by now that any truth that was originally there is long since gone.
Religion is also based upon hypocrisy. If you believe something you need to believe in it full time. Thou shall not swear? Thou shalt not covet another man's wife? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller? Bueller? You've heard of Easter Catholics and Sunday morning Christians, but nobody calls them what they are hypocrites.
By the way, if there is a God my money is on the fact that God is a woman. C'mon and tell me that a chick wouldn't start a mess like this and then leave it for her male half to step in and fix it.
I guess my beliefs fall closest to the category of Zen Buddhism. No supreme being. You do what is right because it is the right thing to do. No reward. The point of life is to live a good life.
Religion is based on tradition and plays upon the fact that nobody thinks critically about it. The people who do are outcasts and labeled heretics and atheists because they actually use the brain in their head.
And as I was afraid, the wife finds me writing this and an hour long fight ensues complete with tears and yelling. The point of the blog is to get it out. Look babe, I respect your position, I just want you to respect mine.
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