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I do not, could not, believe in heaven, hell, church, or God because then I could not believe in myself.
I have abandoned God and religion not because I think it is wrong or evil, I make no such claim. I abandon it because I have found something so much larger, and for me, so much better. This is not about Emerson, or Thoreau, Ghandi, Jesus, Siddhartha or even God. It is about me and who I am. My morals, my judge of what is right and wrong, noone elses, not God's, not Thoreau's, not (dare I say it?) Emerson's, not the bible's. My loves and hates, my sinds and good deeds, my imperfections and perfections. I embrace every one of these things because they are what make me uniquely me. They make me no better than any other person and they are what connect me to every other person. Because I can love, accept and respect myself as a whole, I would like to think I can now do the same for any other thing be it a rock or some random person in Fiji. If this is not yet true, I plan to make it a lifelong journey to make it thus.
Few people understand me and that is why I hesitate to post this. Scout has even repeatedly asked me, generally in a state of distress, "What is wrong with you?". You see... I fear that if I post I may offend others, while if I do not, I will offend my own constition by hiding it. Just know, whoever is reading this, I fully respect your beliefs, whatever they may be because they are not mine to criticize. I realise that like you, I have my own beliefs that you may not understand. Hopefully you at least have them though, whether they are different from mine or not, believing in something is what makes us the same.
Em
p.s. There is more to this than I have written but being that this is something that I have been contemplating since I cannot remember when I was not, there is a lifetime of things that could be written and only a few minutes to write them. If you are so curious, feel free to call me. As John Lennon would say, "You know my name, look up my number."
I have abandoned God and religion not because I think it is wrong or evil, I make no such claim. I abandon it because I have found something so much larger, and for me, so much better. This is not about Emerson, or Thoreau, Ghandi, Jesus, Siddhartha or even God. It is about me and who I am. My morals, my judge of what is right and wrong, noone elses, not God's, not Thoreau's, not (dare I say it?) Emerson's, not the bible's. My loves and hates, my sinds and good deeds, my imperfections and perfections. I embrace every one of these things because they are what make me uniquely me. They make me no better than any other person and they are what connect me to every other person. Because I can love, accept and respect myself as a whole, I would like to think I can now do the same for any other thing be it a rock or some random person in Fiji. If this is not yet true, I plan to make it a lifelong journey to make it thus.
Few people understand me and that is why I hesitate to post this. Scout has even repeatedly asked me, generally in a state of distress, "What is wrong with you?". You see... I fear that if I post I may offend others, while if I do not, I will offend my own constition by hiding it. Just know, whoever is reading this, I fully respect your beliefs, whatever they may be because they are not mine to criticize. I realise that like you, I have my own beliefs that you may not understand. Hopefully you at least have them though, whether they are different from mine or not, believing in something is what makes us the same.
Em
p.s. There is more to this than I have written but being that this is something that I have been contemplating since I cannot remember when I was not, there is a lifetime of things that could be written and only a few minutes to write them. If you are so curious, feel free to call me. As John Lennon would say, "You know my name, look up my number."