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I fully understand that most of the things that i am about to write will come off as offensive and blunt...and even harsh. But for those things i will not apologize. i have many friends who believe in a god and who practice one form of religon or another. and this is in no way attacking anybody. This is me, simply adressing the issue i have with everything. please try and understand this. and this is open for debate. But a civil one at that. I am mostly writting this mostly to educate the un-educated, and to express my concern. i also want to apologize for the many grammatical errors i am sure to make.
I come from a very unstable history of religon, and what not. i dont think i have ever offically declaired myself religious before, but i used to have a certian respect for it, and always considered myself "agnostic". In fact, if one of my friends ever preached about being god free, i got onto them...saying why would you try to attack someone for trying to instill a set of morality in there life, however...ridiculous the source may be. But as of the past few days i have offically declaired myself "God Free". And by the end of this you'll understand. and before i start, i have to admit alot of my motive and intent is fueld by Sam Harris. If anything i say makes even a little bit of sense, i urge you to google his name.
I understand full well how any one person can buy into religon, and find themselve's believing in god. it makes sense. and i think that i lucked out and didnt have parents who literally brainwashed me into thinking the way they wanted me to. and didnt force feed me ideals and values. instead i was lucky enough to be able to make my own choices. but we will get into that later. Again, i used to be one that respected the idea that religon brings to the table and respect the values it sets. but no longer do i respect those things. But most importantly i cant respect the morals...they arent REAL morals. REAL morals need to be found on a lone expedition, so to speak. everyone needs to find morals and deem them worthy of haveing and practicing becasue they, deep down, know thats how things should be and thats the right thing to do. Not because some book and scripture says so, and says thats what needs to be practiced to recieve the ultimate reward, which of course would be the promise of "heaven".
I think a good place to start this off would be to start with why i believe people need god. i believe that people need to feel connected to something much bigger and greater. and they need to feel that there was meaning to their exsistance here but more importantly, meaning to their lives. I think this issue has been talked to death and no god believing man or woman will admit to it, but i think subconqiously...like the rest of the world, they are afraid of death. but these deep down are the people who dont want to face it. i believe this doesnt apply to everybody though. those who were brought up to be religous and didnt get to make that choice on their own, this doesnt apply to. but for those who "found god", it does. i mean it makes sense, think about it...life would be so much easier to make yourself honestly belive that after death there is life. but thats where intellectual honesty comes in. One needs to always be honest with his or herself, and the truth is that its all too damn far fetched to buy into. i mean really...theres some invisable super natrual intelligence living amongst the clouds...or in outer space, or beyond? lets be honest with ourselves. and i think that can be a very hard thing for a beliver to do. i mean all their lives they have had a security blanket, so to speak, that allowed them to enjoy life and not face the hard facts...which would be that when life ends, theres not so white light. theres not an additional door you walk through and the most certianly isnt a set of gates that opens for you amongst the clouds. it can be a very scary thing to face, if one is not emotionally prepared. and im not saying that i dont fear death, or that i belive im fearless...becasue im not. im scared to death of death itself. but im not gonna lie to myself to make it any easier to deal with.
Most parents today raise their children to belive and embrace religous values and practices. really thats unfair. a child should be able to make his or her choice when that time comes, and should be educated on both sides of the matter before making such a choice. and for those of you who cant understand why its so hard to get a beliver to be a non-believer...let me explain. when you try and show a beliver the truth, and get them to turn their back on religon, they arent just turning their back on religon...they are turning their backs on their families, their church, their friends, their social circle and everything they have ever belived in before that moment. im willing to bet that there are plenty of people out there who dont belive in god but wont allow themselves to go public with it becasue of whats at stake.
One of the things that boils my blood most about Religon in general is the additional, uneeded segregation it presents and instills. And its probably the BIGGEST segragator of them all. i mean how is this over looked so easily and then when its seen its dismissed. religion is the number one killer of human beings in history. worse than aids, worse than cancer or diseases. but some how we, as american society still say its okay becasue we practice freeedom of religon, well you know what it's not okay. becasue while freedom of religon is apart of our bill of rights, so is the seperation of church and state and we MOST CERTAINLY dont see that being practiced. Seriously, i think it was something like 70% of americans believe that in their lifetime the rapture will happen. they believe that god will come to earth and save all of his followers from the firey pits of hell and sufferring thats intended for the "sinners". now that preseant many concerns of mine. One being that these are the same people who are elcting government officals to office, and senate and congress. but whats even worse these are the people that are being elected to office, and senate, and congress. these are the people making the major choices for our company. and whats to stop me from beleiving that some if not all of the choices reguarding our country arent just some small act of their faith and to please god. that leads to me to belive that somehow our country is being ran by christians, with a president who used his very first vito to vito stem-cell research...for religious reasons. he vitoed the single most important scinentific discovery. god forbid we try and find ways to cure bone marrow cancer for an 8 year old girl or brain cancer for and 80 year old man. this is the same president who attempted to ban gay marriage in all 50 states...
Faith. What is it really? well lets take a second to break that word down.Faith is nothing more then premission one beliver gives to another to belive in something outragious. to believe in things that cant be prooven. that hold no hard evidence. and you know..most belivers have many holes in their belifes. they will choose to belive or practice one teaching but not the next. i wasnt aware that being selctive about your pricipals was apart of religon.because one theory i have is this; i have many many friends who belive in god, and i dont see them trying to save me from a lifetime of tourture and suffering...and of course one reason could be becasue they just dont care enough about me..haha. but the next reason is simply becasue they dont belive itll happen. and really there are many many gods in the history of this world. there were greek gods, and everyone believed in them, and deemed them their legitament gods. and look at it now, its now refered to as greek mythology. now days we have, arab gods, buddist gods, and christians gods, and plenty more. dont you think that if there was truely one god he would have sent out the same message to all of humanity? and what makes people so sure that THEIR religon is the right one? becasue they are so easy to dismiss someone elses faith. but never their own. its all a little bit fishy to me. If a non-relious man sat at his table in the morning before work. had a bowl of ceral and a glass of orange juice setting in front of him, and spewed a few latin words out of his mouth and SERIOUSLY and LEGITAMNETALY believed that his ceral now became a part of Elvis and that his orange juice now became the fountain of youth...we'd label that man as fucking insaine. hed be a lunatic. but if that same man, walked into a church on sunday and spewed out a few latin words and believed that this cracker is apart of jesus, and that this wine his his blood...thats perfectly understandable, and never questioned. thats complete bullshit. im tired of all of this delusion and insanity being dismissed all the time.
In the bible, the new testament Luke: 19 states (not an exact word for word quote) he who wont let me reighn over him, bring him before me and slay him. That very same god also flooded an entire city, full of men woman and children and elders, becasue they were "sinnders" hardly seems forgiving.and this very same god states that if one cant love him, that you cant love at all. is that to say that all of these married couples who happen not to believe in god dont really love eachother? is that to say that an athiest mom or dad doesnt love their child, thats absolutley ubsurd. And the old testiment is the one that labels gay marriage as an abomination. and i find it funny becasue we a little bit of that selctive princiaples and practices here again. if someone wants to pull that out of the old testament and apply it to todays society, then they must use the rest of it aswell...they would then need to sell their wives to slavery when they werent fullfilling their "wifely duties" and they must also kill their children for being disobidiant. funny. catholosisism practices against using condoms...when there are aids killing millions and many more fatal desieses out there. youd think theyd want to protect their followers.
Ever notice when you try to shed some light onto someone whos religious, they become offended and sometimes irrate? its becasue its like taking away their security blanket, as i mentioned earlier. makes sense to me. but if they truely believed in those things they wouldnt be affected. theyd know the truth and no become irrate. theyd know that now matter what words we utterd, that theyd still have their holy place in "heaven". And terrible events can always be justified my a believer. always. its simple, all you need to say is nobody can understand the will of god. and its dismissed. and if god truely has a plan for everyone, then why do followers moarn victims of the holocaust, or 9/11? by no means am i saying we shouldnt. but what i am saying is that if you truely belived that god had a plan for all of us then their deaths were nothing but fuel for his master plan, by his means, a neccessary sacrafice. pretty ridiculous. whats even more ridiculous...if when you ask a believer how God could justify the holocaust, theyd say something like "god wanted the nazi's to excersize free will, and sin" or maybe god was just pissed at the jews...point is, its crap. there is no way to justify such acts, NONE.
In conclusion, there isnt a religon on the face of this planet that could provide me with as much satisfaction and happiness as much as knowing the truth does. And IF there is a god, hypothetically speaking of course...i want no part of his heaven if that is how he treats his creations on earth.
I come from a very unstable history of religon, and what not. i dont think i have ever offically declaired myself religious before, but i used to have a certian respect for it, and always considered myself "agnostic". In fact, if one of my friends ever preached about being god free, i got onto them...saying why would you try to attack someone for trying to instill a set of morality in there life, however...ridiculous the source may be. But as of the past few days i have offically declaired myself "God Free". And by the end of this you'll understand. and before i start, i have to admit alot of my motive and intent is fueld by Sam Harris. If anything i say makes even a little bit of sense, i urge you to google his name.
I understand full well how any one person can buy into religon, and find themselve's believing in god. it makes sense. and i think that i lucked out and didnt have parents who literally brainwashed me into thinking the way they wanted me to. and didnt force feed me ideals and values. instead i was lucky enough to be able to make my own choices. but we will get into that later. Again, i used to be one that respected the idea that religon brings to the table and respect the values it sets. but no longer do i respect those things. But most importantly i cant respect the morals...they arent REAL morals. REAL morals need to be found on a lone expedition, so to speak. everyone needs to find morals and deem them worthy of haveing and practicing becasue they, deep down, know thats how things should be and thats the right thing to do. Not because some book and scripture says so, and says thats what needs to be practiced to recieve the ultimate reward, which of course would be the promise of "heaven".
I think a good place to start this off would be to start with why i believe people need god. i believe that people need to feel connected to something much bigger and greater. and they need to feel that there was meaning to their exsistance here but more importantly, meaning to their lives. I think this issue has been talked to death and no god believing man or woman will admit to it, but i think subconqiously...like the rest of the world, they are afraid of death. but these deep down are the people who dont want to face it. i believe this doesnt apply to everybody though. those who were brought up to be religous and didnt get to make that choice on their own, this doesnt apply to. but for those who "found god", it does. i mean it makes sense, think about it...life would be so much easier to make yourself honestly belive that after death there is life. but thats where intellectual honesty comes in. One needs to always be honest with his or herself, and the truth is that its all too damn far fetched to buy into. i mean really...theres some invisable super natrual intelligence living amongst the clouds...or in outer space, or beyond? lets be honest with ourselves. and i think that can be a very hard thing for a beliver to do. i mean all their lives they have had a security blanket, so to speak, that allowed them to enjoy life and not face the hard facts...which would be that when life ends, theres not so white light. theres not an additional door you walk through and the most certianly isnt a set of gates that opens for you amongst the clouds. it can be a very scary thing to face, if one is not emotionally prepared. and im not saying that i dont fear death, or that i belive im fearless...becasue im not. im scared to death of death itself. but im not gonna lie to myself to make it any easier to deal with.
Most parents today raise their children to belive and embrace religous values and practices. really thats unfair. a child should be able to make his or her choice when that time comes, and should be educated on both sides of the matter before making such a choice. and for those of you who cant understand why its so hard to get a beliver to be a non-believer...let me explain. when you try and show a beliver the truth, and get them to turn their back on religon, they arent just turning their back on religon...they are turning their backs on their families, their church, their friends, their social circle and everything they have ever belived in before that moment. im willing to bet that there are plenty of people out there who dont belive in god but wont allow themselves to go public with it becasue of whats at stake.
One of the things that boils my blood most about Religon in general is the additional, uneeded segregation it presents and instills. And its probably the BIGGEST segragator of them all. i mean how is this over looked so easily and then when its seen its dismissed. religion is the number one killer of human beings in history. worse than aids, worse than cancer or diseases. but some how we, as american society still say its okay becasue we practice freeedom of religon, well you know what it's not okay. becasue while freedom of religon is apart of our bill of rights, so is the seperation of church and state and we MOST CERTAINLY dont see that being practiced. Seriously, i think it was something like 70% of americans believe that in their lifetime the rapture will happen. they believe that god will come to earth and save all of his followers from the firey pits of hell and sufferring thats intended for the "sinners". now that preseant many concerns of mine. One being that these are the same people who are elcting government officals to office, and senate and congress. but whats even worse these are the people that are being elected to office, and senate, and congress. these are the people making the major choices for our company. and whats to stop me from beleiving that some if not all of the choices reguarding our country arent just some small act of their faith and to please god. that leads to me to belive that somehow our country is being ran by christians, with a president who used his very first vito to vito stem-cell research...for religious reasons. he vitoed the single most important scinentific discovery. god forbid we try and find ways to cure bone marrow cancer for an 8 year old girl or brain cancer for and 80 year old man. this is the same president who attempted to ban gay marriage in all 50 states...
Faith. What is it really? well lets take a second to break that word down.Faith is nothing more then premission one beliver gives to another to belive in something outragious. to believe in things that cant be prooven. that hold no hard evidence. and you know..most belivers have many holes in their belifes. they will choose to belive or practice one teaching but not the next. i wasnt aware that being selctive about your pricipals was apart of religon.because one theory i have is this; i have many many friends who belive in god, and i dont see them trying to save me from a lifetime of tourture and suffering...and of course one reason could be becasue they just dont care enough about me..haha. but the next reason is simply becasue they dont belive itll happen. and really there are many many gods in the history of this world. there were greek gods, and everyone believed in them, and deemed them their legitament gods. and look at it now, its now refered to as greek mythology. now days we have, arab gods, buddist gods, and christians gods, and plenty more. dont you think that if there was truely one god he would have sent out the same message to all of humanity? and what makes people so sure that THEIR religon is the right one? becasue they are so easy to dismiss someone elses faith. but never their own. its all a little bit fishy to me. If a non-relious man sat at his table in the morning before work. had a bowl of ceral and a glass of orange juice setting in front of him, and spewed a few latin words out of his mouth and SERIOUSLY and LEGITAMNETALY believed that his ceral now became a part of Elvis and that his orange juice now became the fountain of youth...we'd label that man as fucking insaine. hed be a lunatic. but if that same man, walked into a church on sunday and spewed out a few latin words and believed that this cracker is apart of jesus, and that this wine his his blood...thats perfectly understandable, and never questioned. thats complete bullshit. im tired of all of this delusion and insanity being dismissed all the time.
In the bible, the new testament Luke: 19 states (not an exact word for word quote) he who wont let me reighn over him, bring him before me and slay him. That very same god also flooded an entire city, full of men woman and children and elders, becasue they were "sinnders" hardly seems forgiving.and this very same god states that if one cant love him, that you cant love at all. is that to say that all of these married couples who happen not to believe in god dont really love eachother? is that to say that an athiest mom or dad doesnt love their child, thats absolutley ubsurd. And the old testiment is the one that labels gay marriage as an abomination. and i find it funny becasue we a little bit of that selctive princiaples and practices here again. if someone wants to pull that out of the old testament and apply it to todays society, then they must use the rest of it aswell...they would then need to sell their wives to slavery when they werent fullfilling their "wifely duties" and they must also kill their children for being disobidiant. funny. catholosisism practices against using condoms...when there are aids killing millions and many more fatal desieses out there. youd think theyd want to protect their followers.
Ever notice when you try to shed some light onto someone whos religious, they become offended and sometimes irrate? its becasue its like taking away their security blanket, as i mentioned earlier. makes sense to me. but if they truely believed in those things they wouldnt be affected. theyd know the truth and no become irrate. theyd know that now matter what words we utterd, that theyd still have their holy place in "heaven". And terrible events can always be justified my a believer. always. its simple, all you need to say is nobody can understand the will of god. and its dismissed. and if god truely has a plan for everyone, then why do followers moarn victims of the holocaust, or 9/11? by no means am i saying we shouldnt. but what i am saying is that if you truely belived that god had a plan for all of us then their deaths were nothing but fuel for his master plan, by his means, a neccessary sacrafice. pretty ridiculous. whats even more ridiculous...if when you ask a believer how God could justify the holocaust, theyd say something like "god wanted the nazi's to excersize free will, and sin" or maybe god was just pissed at the jews...point is, its crap. there is no way to justify such acts, NONE.
In conclusion, there isnt a religon on the face of this planet that could provide me with as much satisfaction and happiness as much as knowing the truth does. And IF there is a god, hypothetically speaking of course...i want no part of his heaven if that is how he treats his creations on earth.