Happy birthday to me
I think this may be the only birthday I've ever spent entirely alone. Just me and the cat and a boat load of silence. It's not too terrible though, I had a party last weekend and that was enough excitement to last me a while.
The real reason I'm here is because I'm stirred up about the self riteous christians that abound. Which that statement of irony perfectly illustrates my irritation (self riteousness is supposedly a sin, and yet christians are one of the first people to display this characteristic). Supposedly God teaches togetherness. How is it then, that religion is the most divisive institution on this earth? Christianity in particular is very seperatist, if you do not fit within their very narrow view of what is acceptable, then they suddently display all the characteristics of what they say they are trying not to embody.
Peace, tolerance, love, togetherness? You can't have any of this unless are able to love people in all of their diversity of beliefs, without trying to conform them to your own. If you want to be Christian, more power to you, in the end who is to say who is right or wrong about the world and the universe. The truth of the world written in an antiquated text or reading destiny in the intestines of a cow. I really wouldn't venture to say which is right, both are equally absurd and equally likely to be right or wrong. If it makes you happy and it doesn't harm anyone, then go for it. Don't force your beliefs on me though, or threaten me with eternal damnation and so forth. Just because you chose to believe something doesn't mean you have the right to force that belief on others. The truth is that you don't know if your beliefs are any more valid then the next persons, so you should respect other people, and their beliefs.
I think it's also important to add for perspectives sake, that religion (though it should be) is not usually something made by choice. We are conditioned from birth to believe whatever we believe, and while it may feel like "truth" to us it's really just deep ingrained conditioning. There are the rare few that actually chose thier beliefs as informed adults, but the majority of us out there believe what believe because it's what was taught to us, or it's what predominates in our community. If you think about that for a minute you beging to realize that this isn't really the basis for truth/free thought/insight, it's just the side effect of who/where you were born to and not necissary a good/true or bad/false thing.
Christians would be a lot better people if they actually practiced what they preached... Tolerance, love, togetherness, no matter what we believe, or who we prefer to have sex with we are all human, and if you believe in God then we are all equal in his eyes should we practice religion in church or not.
The real reason I'm here is because I'm stirred up about the self riteous christians that abound. Which that statement of irony perfectly illustrates my irritation (self riteousness is supposedly a sin, and yet christians are one of the first people to display this characteristic). Supposedly God teaches togetherness. How is it then, that religion is the most divisive institution on this earth? Christianity in particular is very seperatist, if you do not fit within their very narrow view of what is acceptable, then they suddently display all the characteristics of what they say they are trying not to embody.
Peace, tolerance, love, togetherness? You can't have any of this unless are able to love people in all of their diversity of beliefs, without trying to conform them to your own. If you want to be Christian, more power to you, in the end who is to say who is right or wrong about the world and the universe. The truth of the world written in an antiquated text or reading destiny in the intestines of a cow. I really wouldn't venture to say which is right, both are equally absurd and equally likely to be right or wrong. If it makes you happy and it doesn't harm anyone, then go for it. Don't force your beliefs on me though, or threaten me with eternal damnation and so forth. Just because you chose to believe something doesn't mean you have the right to force that belief on others. The truth is that you don't know if your beliefs are any more valid then the next persons, so you should respect other people, and their beliefs.
I think it's also important to add for perspectives sake, that religion (though it should be) is not usually something made by choice. We are conditioned from birth to believe whatever we believe, and while it may feel like "truth" to us it's really just deep ingrained conditioning. There are the rare few that actually chose thier beliefs as informed adults, but the majority of us out there believe what believe because it's what was taught to us, or it's what predominates in our community. If you think about that for a minute you beging to realize that this isn't really the basis for truth/free thought/insight, it's just the side effect of who/where you were born to and not necissary a good/true or bad/false thing.
Christians would be a lot better people if they actually practiced what they preached... Tolerance, love, togetherness, no matter what we believe, or who we prefer to have sex with we are all human, and if you believe in God then we are all equal in his eyes should we practice religion in church or not.