Why must we all need jesus???
Today, like every sunday of my entire life, i was forced to go to church with my family...my family, or at least my parents are devout catholics, and i'm not...i dont know what i am, maybe an atheist, maybe not...but i think that the catholic religion is crock, as goes for most, if not all other religions. my dad is always telling me that i need to find christ's piece, but tell me, why do i have to find the peace of someone who died almost two thousand years ago, i'm living now, i'm living my own life, i dont need to devote it to someone who lived two thousand years ago...so then, it got worse, today we were driving home from church, and we passed a billboard...a public billboard, and this is what it said..."Just give me Christ" nothing else, no advertisement from a company or anything, just that saying, if you can call it a saying. now this may be terribly wrong, and sorry if i'm upsetting all you christ lovers out there, but shouldnt people in this world find peace within themselves, within their own lives...shouldnt that be more important that finding peace in someone who lived two thousand years ago...people need to realize that this is all we have, this live is all that we KNOW has been, or will be bestowed to us. we dont know what will happen when we die, we dont know that if we're all good little girls and boys that we'll go to heaven, or that if we're sinners we'll go to hell, all we know is that we have time on this earth to spend, why should we spend it on something that may not even exist...i say that we all need to take advantage of this life because it very well may be all that we have, and when it's gone...it's gone. no turning back when it's over, and you may say that that's just a sad view, that i need to look at the world brighter, i need to have "faith" but why??? why invest in faith, why have faith in something when i could spend allll that time spent on faith on actually living this life...THIS LIFE the one i KNOW i have. and isnt that just as logical as some magical kingdom that looms behind the doors of death...isnt that MORE practical. and here's the other thing about that sign that really bothered me...why is it that all propaganda from the catholic church is now viewed as acceptable?? if that sign read "all i need is the devil" or "There is no god or jesus, there is no heaven or hell" all hell would break loose, excuse the expression...the public would go absolutely bonkers, but how is that so much worse than talking about jesus, they're both simply philosophies. we can't simply let the catholic church brainwash the nation, i dont understand how that's fair...why is that philosophy so much more sane and real than all the others...i'll tell you why, because it's aceepted, and i believe that the things that America now accepts is killing free thought, it's killing the young minds that this country makes...and it makes me sick
Ender Williams
Ender Williams