It's Battlestar Galactica's fault. Seriously.
I’ll tell ya a little a bit about me. I grew up in a Catholic family who I wholeheartedly believe taught me great lessons in life and ways to lead a good life. Though my background is semi-religious I still think it all comes down to this striving to learn how to be a good person and live the life we want to lead, regardless of what compels us to do so.
What’s been tugging at me for some time is this thing we call God. If I can be honest, am not well learned in any particular religious text. From what I understand though, God is said to be that which created us in his image and gave us all the free will to make choices in the hopes that we might come to him on our own accord. How could it be then, that this God might ever reject one of those he created due to this free will that has allowed us not to follow? What I think it comes down to then, is that if he really was the entity who created us then any lack of belief in signs, stories, and texts can only be traced back to his actions that I feel we ought not be held accountable for.
Why should we be cast into a mold of rituals and religious history with rules to abide by if that mold is not the one we wish to fit. Don’t get me wrong - organized religion works for people; it helps them pave a way to being the person they want to be. Can I not then pave my own path? Can I not be one who does not feel the need to be formally taught how to be good?
I don’t know I guess I’m just on a rant and felt like writing about it.
What’s been tugging at me for some time is this thing we call God. If I can be honest, am not well learned in any particular religious text. From what I understand though, God is said to be that which created us in his image and gave us all the free will to make choices in the hopes that we might come to him on our own accord. How could it be then, that this God might ever reject one of those he created due to this free will that has allowed us not to follow? What I think it comes down to then, is that if he really was the entity who created us then any lack of belief in signs, stories, and texts can only be traced back to his actions that I feel we ought not be held accountable for.
Why should we be cast into a mold of rituals and religious history with rules to abide by if that mold is not the one we wish to fit. Don’t get me wrong - organized religion works for people; it helps them pave a way to being the person they want to be. Can I not then pave my own path? Can I not be one who does not feel the need to be formally taught how to be good?
I don’t know I guess I’m just on a rant and felt like writing about it.