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Thursday, February 09, 2017
Wednesday, February 08, 2017
Religion
Definition of "Religion"
1[mass noun] The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or god
Ok, now that that is out of the way, on to my small rant. Religion is a BELIEF. Not a fact. Religion is when you believe something to be true. Science is the set of principles and disciplines that go about proving things to be FACT. Somehow people don't seem to understand this. I've heard people actually say "I don't believe in climate change because God is so much more powerful than man how could we do anything to change the world's climate?" Really? First, GOD is a belief. There is no solid proof of a God. Any God. Or Gods. God exists in each person's personal belief system. I'm not saying there isn't a God or Gods. What I am saying is that nobody can show me hard proof that there is a God and that He/She/It behaves in the way that the Quran/Bible/Torah/Etc. describe. When I hear someone tell me that they have a "personal relationship with Jesus" I can only think that having a "personal relationship" with someone who if he existed has been dead for some 2000 odd years now sounds a bit creepy. If I went to my shrink and told her I had a personal relationship with Buddha/Mohammed/Krishna she would probably make me pee in a cup. Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for people being allowed to believe whatever they want. I have beliefs about the nature of the universe and it's possible creative force, but it's personal. I don't talk about it. I was raised Catholic and lost that faith in 5th grade. It's a very devastating thing for a child to lose faith in God. When I think about it, it makes me want to cry because I really wish there was an all knowing, all seeing, loving, caring God up there taking care of me. I want to be loved and love back something that is bigger, greater and more powerful than anything that has ever hurt me. Unfortunately I don't believe in god that way. Now, before I get sidetracked,, I'll get to my point. Your beliefs are just that. Beliefs. Not facts. It's what you believe to be true. You can believe your God wouldn't allow climate change all you want and that won't make it a fact. Sorry. You can believe that a person who isn't a Christian doesn't have morals. Again, sorry. There's no boundary to the things you CAN believe in except your own imagination. And I don't object to you believing that you found Jesus in a box of saltines, way down at the bottom. It's your human right to believe what you want to. Where my objections start is when people start believing that everyone else needs to believe just like they do. If they don't then they must be evil and going to hell. Bullshit. I've been to hell. You don't even want to know what that's like. It's ok to believe whatever you want as long as you don't wave it in everyone else's face. Just like a penis. It's a fine thing to have one but if you wave it in my face we will have a problem. And there's the crux of it. The people who have recently come to power in the USA seem to want to ram Christianity down the public's throat. Is they had read up on history (or passed high school history class, or perhaps government class) they would know that this was NOT founded as a Christian nation. It was founded by what was at the time considered radical Christian sects who broke away from The Church of England and other Christian sects in power at the time. They knew the dangers of mixing government with religion and wanted to avoid the consequences. And here we are, a bare 200 some odd years later looking at a possible fascist regime preaching alternative facts and pushing Christianity (right wing Christianity which is NOT true Christianity at all). Because of all this I am sick, stressed, depressed and feel like hope for humanity has just gone down the rabbit hole. I think that Stephen Hawking is right and we are watching humanity go into decline, possibly to our extinction.
1[mass noun] The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or god
Ok, now that that is out of the way, on to my small rant. Religion is a BELIEF. Not a fact. Religion is when you believe something to be true. Science is the set of principles and disciplines that go about proving things to be FACT. Somehow people don't seem to understand this. I've heard people actually say "I don't believe in climate change because God is so much more powerful than man how could we do anything to change the world's climate?" Really? First, GOD is a belief. There is no solid proof of a God. Any God. Or Gods. God exists in each person's personal belief system. I'm not saying there isn't a God or Gods. What I am saying is that nobody can show me hard proof that there is a God and that He/She/It behaves in the way that the Quran/Bible/Torah/Etc. describe. When I hear someone tell me that they have a "personal relationship with Jesus" I can only think that having a "personal relationship" with someone who if he existed has been dead for some 2000 odd years now sounds a bit creepy. If I went to my shrink and told her I had a personal relationship with Buddha/Mohammed/Krishna she would probably make me pee in a cup. Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for people being allowed to believe whatever they want. I have beliefs about the nature of the universe and it's possible creative force, but it's personal. I don't talk about it. I was raised Catholic and lost that faith in 5th grade. It's a very devastating thing for a child to lose faith in God. When I think about it, it makes me want to cry because I really wish there was an all knowing, all seeing, loving, caring God up there taking care of me. I want to be loved and love back something that is bigger, greater and more powerful than anything that has ever hurt me. Unfortunately I don't believe in god that way. Now, before I get sidetracked,, I'll get to my point. Your beliefs are just that. Beliefs. Not facts. It's what you believe to be true. You can believe your God wouldn't allow climate change all you want and that won't make it a fact. Sorry. You can believe that a person who isn't a Christian doesn't have morals. Again, sorry. There's no boundary to the things you CAN believe in except your own imagination. And I don't object to you believing that you found Jesus in a box of saltines, way down at the bottom. It's your human right to believe what you want to. Where my objections start is when people start believing that everyone else needs to believe just like they do. If they don't then they must be evil and going to hell. Bullshit. I've been to hell. You don't even want to know what that's like. It's ok to believe whatever you want as long as you don't wave it in everyone else's face. Just like a penis. It's a fine thing to have one but if you wave it in my face we will have a problem. And there's the crux of it. The people who have recently come to power in the USA seem to want to ram Christianity down the public's throat. Is they had read up on history (or passed high school history class, or perhaps government class) they would know that this was NOT founded as a Christian nation. It was founded by what was at the time considered radical Christian sects who broke away from The Church of England and other Christian sects in power at the time. They knew the dangers of mixing government with religion and wanted to avoid the consequences. And here we are, a bare 200 some odd years later looking at a possible fascist regime preaching alternative facts and pushing Christianity (right wing Christianity which is NOT true Christianity at all). Because of all this I am sick, stressed, depressed and feel like hope for humanity has just gone down the rabbit hole. I think that Stephen Hawking is right and we are watching humanity go into decline, possibly to our extinction.
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