Why do people keep picking on religion?
I saw this video on youtube about a girl ranting about the need for getting facts straight and clarifying them before actually accepting them. She was saying something like people should avoid being gullible and even included religion as something that should also go under questioning. Although it wasn't expressed directly that was what I think one of the things she was trying to say. And again it got me wondering. I wasn't thinking of another argument to stand for my faith. I was thinking, why the heck are a lot of people picking on religion lately. Seriously, what would these people get if they finally prove that God doesn't exist or that Jesus Christ was a married man. I'm sure that would greatly affect the foundations of the Catholic religion and probably reduce it's followers by millions if not billions. Oh yeah, and consequently the men of the holy orders and the pastors from different sects wouldn't be as influential or as powerful as they are now. So then Christianity would go like *poof* and then what? Do we become free from all the rules of morality that were "made up" to keep us from having fun and fornicating and adulterating our lives away? Do we finally get to keep the money that we used to donate for missionaries or for charity and finally buy stuff that would make us happier? Oh oh I know! At least a lot of people now won't be called hypocrites for praying and going to church but still living their lives in a way that would definitely send them to an unlikable after life.Oh wait, there wouldn't be an after life anymore. We'd just live and die and that's it. Yeah, life would be simpler coz you wouldn't have to worry about doing good and loving an "imaginary" God that you don't really see, except on Da Vinci's paintings, to go to heaven and avoid damnation. Was that all this fuss is for?
Hmm... Or maybe you can say that you can still live an upright life without believing in a God. Believing only in yourself and in what you do. Hmm.. that would mean that you could do any good thing that you can think of as long as its good for you or good for the masses. At least now that God's not around anymore we can disregard this so called "human dignity", that was by the way said to have come from God in the first place being in his image and all, and finally do anything with man. Finally we can do those fascinating experiments on man which can help us find out the cure for the next big disease or maybe come up with a new way to lengthen mankind's life in general of course with due credit to the people who became lab rats. Is that it? Oh yeah I just remembered! We can also do good since religion ins't the only source of how people should act towards each other! After all there's still philosophy right? Yeah, we can still do what is considerably correct towards each other as well as rationalize everything else we are capable of doing minus of course the lousy restrictions religion imposes on us.
Why? Why do people keep on questioning religion and do it as though it were a bold step in liberating ourselves from the shackles of ignorance passed on to us by
our "overly imaginative" ancestors? Why try to question something that can teach us how to be better persons? Why question something that offers a guide about sin which doesn't only affects our life not only spiritually but also socially? Is it important that we gain something tangible from this religion thing, something we can see and touch and not something like those intangible thoughts and ideas that we couldn't make use of unless we reflect upon and apply them in our life.
Another thing, I've heard from people who say that believing in religion is useless, or in our language "walang kwenta", because the very guys who are supposed to be preachers act in a way that is not in congruence with what they teach. They saw that the preachers themselves are sinful and believing in the stuff they preach is a load of crap. Sure there are people who exist like that, they are human after all and have their imperfections. But then if we see one extremely crappy preacher it doesn't mean that you've seen them all. I don't think that we can expect every preacher we see to be 100% pure but why brood and think everything they stand for is a hoax when you can ignore that and instead focus on what is good. If you want to focus on what is wrong in them then don't brood but stand up and correct them and help them. Why not try to do things constructively instead? I really wonder...
One last thing, why is it that when I hear someting about religion more often than not it's the Chrsitian religion that's being talked about. I don't think I've ever seen anybody question Muslims or Buddhsits when they probably have as much, if not more than, followers as Christianity has. :-/
Hmm... Or maybe you can say that you can still live an upright life without believing in a God. Believing only in yourself and in what you do. Hmm.. that would mean that you could do any good thing that you can think of as long as its good for you or good for the masses. At least now that God's not around anymore we can disregard this so called "human dignity", that was by the way said to have come from God in the first place being in his image and all, and finally do anything with man. Finally we can do those fascinating experiments on man which can help us find out the cure for the next big disease or maybe come up with a new way to lengthen mankind's life in general of course with due credit to the people who became lab rats. Is that it? Oh yeah I just remembered! We can also do good since religion ins't the only source of how people should act towards each other! After all there's still philosophy right? Yeah, we can still do what is considerably correct towards each other as well as rationalize everything else we are capable of doing minus of course the lousy restrictions religion imposes on us.
Why? Why do people keep on questioning religion and do it as though it were a bold step in liberating ourselves from the shackles of ignorance passed on to us by
our "overly imaginative" ancestors? Why try to question something that can teach us how to be better persons? Why question something that offers a guide about sin which doesn't only affects our life not only spiritually but also socially? Is it important that we gain something tangible from this religion thing, something we can see and touch and not something like those intangible thoughts and ideas that we couldn't make use of unless we reflect upon and apply them in our life.
Another thing, I've heard from people who say that believing in religion is useless, or in our language "walang kwenta", because the very guys who are supposed to be preachers act in a way that is not in congruence with what they teach. They saw that the preachers themselves are sinful and believing in the stuff they preach is a load of crap. Sure there are people who exist like that, they are human after all and have their imperfections. But then if we see one extremely crappy preacher it doesn't mean that you've seen them all. I don't think that we can expect every preacher we see to be 100% pure but why brood and think everything they stand for is a hoax when you can ignore that and instead focus on what is good. If you want to focus on what is wrong in them then don't brood but stand up and correct them and help them. Why not try to do things constructively instead? I really wonder...
One last thing, why is it that when I hear someting about religion more often than not it's the Chrsitian religion that's being talked about. I don't think I've ever seen anybody question Muslims or Buddhsits when they probably have as much, if not more than, followers as Christianity has. :-/