Unpopular Opinion Time
This whole “the world will end May 21, 2011” thing has spurred a rant from yours truly.
So, all my life I’ve grown up in a good ‘ole Southern Baptist church. I’m talking Southern Baptist, like, hardcore “Jesus Christ will return, He is the way, the truth, and the life” Southern Baptist. And that’s ‘cause I live in part of the Bible Belt. *le sigh*
It kinda sucks ‘cause people put such a label on “Bible Belt people” and all that shit. Anyways. Growing up, I didn’t see much of a problem with being Christian and all that jazz. Believing in God was basically “bedazzled” as I like to put it. If you believed and you were saved and baptized, then you were royalty. Same still goes now-a-days in my church. If you don’t, then you’re the scum on the bottom of the believer’s shoes. But, the older I got and the more I started to learn about the world and our society, the more I started to have a problem with believing in God and the Bible and basically everything I was taught in church growing up.
Why? It all started with Harry Potter. No lie. I was taught that God put a baby in a virgin, she had a “king baby” (what? I was a kid, what else was I supposed to call it?!), He became all awesomesauce and walked on water, and healed sick people, and made blind people un-blind, and all this “magical” stuff. But in the Christian view of things magic and ghosts and all that doesn’t exist. I read Harry Potter and thought that was just so cool! I believed magic was real. Lord of the Rings influenced that, too. (Which also baffles me: people in my church like Lord of the Rings but when it comes to Harry Potter, they think it’s awful and should be banned and shit *eye roll*).
So if they, as christians, believe in a guy that walked on water (and today that’s impossible), healed sick people & made the blind to see (which, as far as doctor’s are concerned, cannot happen), and did magical things then how come magic isn’t real? How come ghosts don’t exist? How come all the scary things we see on tv are only figments of our imaginations? I just don’t get it.
Which is why I honestly believe I haven’t been “saved” yet. After all the things I’ve seen in this world and all the things I believe and all the things that have happened these past few years, I just can’t bring myself to believe in someone who did things that, today, are “impossible.” My grandmother and youth director and other people always prayed for me as a kid because that was the age they were all saved and they were hoping I would do the same; that I would “see the truth” and put on some ugly white robe and let the preacher dunk my head under some ice cold water.
It also bugs me that apparently other gods don’t exist. Like Buddha and all those people. Why can’t you just allow these people to believe in their own higher power? Instead of coming into their homes and their countries to teach them about God and Jesus and the Bible, just let them believe in their own higherpower. Just ‘cause christians say they don’t exist doesn’t mean anything. These people that have a different religion probably think we’re crazy for believing in God and the bible and all that. Just sayin’.
Then I feel bad when I’m in the prescence of people that have been saved, or people that say they’re christians and they proclaim that Jesus is their Lord and Savior but don’t really act like a good christian. It makes me feel bad to be surrounded by people like that when I can’t even bring myself to believe in what they believe. If we constrict ourselves with one way of life, how are we going to live life? How are we going to experience all the bad and the good life has to offer?
I think I’m done now.