I had a thought yesterday I decided to share with all of you. The concept of hell is a place of torture, with lakes of fire and stabbing blades, etc. But I just had the insight that this is needlessly excessive.
Why bother to torture the sinners? Think of the times you've spent with awful people. Now contemplate a place that is filled with awful ( Read more... )

'Sympathy For The Devil'. I'm kind of embarrassed by how short it is. I knew it wasn't going to be very long, but I find myself having written the complete story in only five pages. A slow expressive performance would be thirty minutes, maximum ( Read more... )

I was shocked to see this on Facebook. The Evan is someone whom I am not exactly friends with, but sort of am. We don't agree on...anything, really, but we can talk and argue. Talk and argue without either of us getting angry or taking it personally.
I didn't know what to think of this, though. It is the sort of thoughtless, insecure, paranoid, ' ( Read more... )

I was on a bit of a musical binge from oh, 13-14. Still adore them, but I was fairly OBSESSED at the time. I was also in the process of divorce from my faith.

I bought 'Jesus Christ: Superstar' from a bargin bin on a whim, mostly because it was Lloyd Webber, and  I had loved CATS.

Oh, my God.

It blew me away. It made me cry.

It did not make me go ( Read more... )

I met a mormon today.
I quickly sent him on his way.
Too late, I realized,
Once he had surpassed the reach of my eyes,
That I had not said what I needed to say.

Once, I had loved my religion.
It's easy to do, when we are children.
And we understand not ourselves or the world.
Its mysteries and inconsistancies
Have not yet unfurled
But when they do, then we ( Read more... )

I have made, albeit half-jokingly, comments about forming my own religion in the past. I think I shall follow through.

What brought this on? Part of it was reading about some more crazy bull-shit going on because of religion. I just felt this wave of frustration thinking about all the injustice and hatred that has been instigated under the name of ' ( Read more... )

I while back, I did some looking into Satanism, just to see what all the fuss was about. I'm a curious little creature, you see. I rejected most of their arguments, finding their view on humanity far too cynical and nihilistic. But one thing really stuck with me.

To paraphrase, the idea is that very few people are religious about whatever they claim ( Read more... )

I'm better, much better actually, than I was this morning. This morning, I woke up, and I was overcome with this disappointment that I was awake and that I still existed.

That doesn't sound quite right, I don't feel that I'm conveying the emotion properly. Depression is a difficult thing to verbalize, you always come off sounding a bit 'emo'. But ( Read more... )

Saw this on elina_elsu 's Livejournal....

True Story. A religion teacher assigned her class an essay on what makes a good Christian. One student wrote about praying nightly, say no to abortion, banning gay marriage, and donating money. The other student wrote about talking to God and allowing people to enjoy their lives, and supporting gay marriage ( Read more... )

An acquaintance of mine made a post that talks about the early beginnings of the Christian church, with its views on gay marriage ( Read more... )