Religion
So I've been bored lately and been YouTubin' a fair bit, and lately I've been finding a few videos on religion and what not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwGLNbiw1gk
One of them was of Oprah (I'm sure it must've been from the 80s or at least the early 90s. Either that or the people in it really need to catch up with the current hairstyle trends). And yes, I do realise that this particular video is actually anti-Oprah, but after watching it I was actually on Oprah's side...lol. In the video, Oprah says that if someone lives a good life and lives the way that Jesus and God wanted them to live, but they grew up in a part of the world where they'd never heard of Christianity, that they should still be going to heaven or whatever. So basically she's saying, that it shouldn't matter what you believe, it's all about how you live. Loving other people, being kind and all that jazz. Anyway, these people respond to her saying that no, the only way to Heaven is to believe in Jesus yadda yadda. It really pissed me off. I find it mildly amusing that there are so many videos and video responses on YouTube about it saying how Oprah has started a "new age cult" of not believing in Jesus. I think it's probably better than a 2000+ year old cult. And at least Oprah's new age cult is promoting people being kind and loving, whereas their olden days cult is saying only certain people are welcome.
I watched some other video where some guy was responding to Oprah's video, saying that he doesn't think she should give her opinion, basically. Says that because she's in a position of power, where so many people watch her show and stuff, she's not entitled to an opinion (which personally I think is a load of crap, but that's not the part of the video that annoyed me the most). So anyway, at the start of the video, this guy says that he doesn't care what religion anyone else is, and that everyone is entitled to their own belief. Fair enough, right? But then he says "That's their God-given right". Umm...what?! So it's my God-given right to be an atheist? It's my God-given right to be Hindu? It's my God-given right to be Buddhist? Doesn't that imply that I believe in God, to actually have God-given rights of any kind?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E85jcgKEabE
So anyway, this other guy gave a pretty convincing pro-Christianity speech on his video. He basically said how so many Christians take a few things out of the bible like how homosexuality is an abomination and all that, but they don't follow the rest of the bible, like love your neighbour and (although he didn't specifically say it in the video, I'll add this one) judge not lest ye be judged. And how that this sort of attitude is actually turning people away from Christianity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZccnGspog0
Meanwhile, "Crazy Racist Family" on the Tyra Banks Show really upsets and scares me. Watching something like that makes me wonder if the world will ever be a good place to live. I honestly don't see how people can be of the opinion that white people are better than any other race. And I honestly don't understand why this family thinks that the white people in America have some sort of priority over any other race, saying that African Americans should go back to Africa. Firstly, they didn't choose to go there, they were taken there as slaves and forced to go there. Secondly, white people are not native to America, so why doesn't he go back to Europe? It's just crazy shit, and it really depresses me to see that there are people like that in the world, who have so much hate and are that closed minded that they'd even remotely think that way.
I don't really have that much of a religious or spiritual belief at all, but on occasions I wonder. I wonder because I want to hope that there would be a better place than Earth, where people aren't such arseholes. But I suppose that sort of thing is what create religions to begin with. A hope for a better place where we can have everything our own way.
Isn't it funny how when we look at old religions we refer to them as myths? Like Greek mythology and Roman mythology. And then people go straight on to talk about their own religion as a fact.
Although I hope for there to be something after death where it's better, I know that there isn't anything. I know that we are just a bunch of atoms, protons, electrons, neutrons, and whatever else is in us. I know this because it's fact. And I know that when we die there'll be nothing. And although it's nice to hope for something after this life, and it would be a great thing, I don't think it's worth the hate, the anger, the fighting and the wars that have been caused all in the name of religion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwGLNbiw1gk
One of them was of Oprah (I'm sure it must've been from the 80s or at least the early 90s. Either that or the people in it really need to catch up with the current hairstyle trends). And yes, I do realise that this particular video is actually anti-Oprah, but after watching it I was actually on Oprah's side...lol. In the video, Oprah says that if someone lives a good life and lives the way that Jesus and God wanted them to live, but they grew up in a part of the world where they'd never heard of Christianity, that they should still be going to heaven or whatever. So basically she's saying, that it shouldn't matter what you believe, it's all about how you live. Loving other people, being kind and all that jazz. Anyway, these people respond to her saying that no, the only way to Heaven is to believe in Jesus yadda yadda. It really pissed me off. I find it mildly amusing that there are so many videos and video responses on YouTube about it saying how Oprah has started a "new age cult" of not believing in Jesus. I think it's probably better than a 2000+ year old cult. And at least Oprah's new age cult is promoting people being kind and loving, whereas their olden days cult is saying only certain people are welcome.
I watched some other video where some guy was responding to Oprah's video, saying that he doesn't think she should give her opinion, basically. Says that because she's in a position of power, where so many people watch her show and stuff, she's not entitled to an opinion (which personally I think is a load of crap, but that's not the part of the video that annoyed me the most). So anyway, at the start of the video, this guy says that he doesn't care what religion anyone else is, and that everyone is entitled to their own belief. Fair enough, right? But then he says "That's their God-given right". Umm...what?! So it's my God-given right to be an atheist? It's my God-given right to be Hindu? It's my God-given right to be Buddhist? Doesn't that imply that I believe in God, to actually have God-given rights of any kind?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E85jcgKEabE
So anyway, this other guy gave a pretty convincing pro-Christianity speech on his video. He basically said how so many Christians take a few things out of the bible like how homosexuality is an abomination and all that, but they don't follow the rest of the bible, like love your neighbour and (although he didn't specifically say it in the video, I'll add this one) judge not lest ye be judged. And how that this sort of attitude is actually turning people away from Christianity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZccnGspog0
Meanwhile, "Crazy Racist Family" on the Tyra Banks Show really upsets and scares me. Watching something like that makes me wonder if the world will ever be a good place to live. I honestly don't see how people can be of the opinion that white people are better than any other race. And I honestly don't understand why this family thinks that the white people in America have some sort of priority over any other race, saying that African Americans should go back to Africa. Firstly, they didn't choose to go there, they were taken there as slaves and forced to go there. Secondly, white people are not native to America, so why doesn't he go back to Europe? It's just crazy shit, and it really depresses me to see that there are people like that in the world, who have so much hate and are that closed minded that they'd even remotely think that way.
I don't really have that much of a religious or spiritual belief at all, but on occasions I wonder. I wonder because I want to hope that there would be a better place than Earth, where people aren't such arseholes. But I suppose that sort of thing is what create religions to begin with. A hope for a better place where we can have everything our own way.
Isn't it funny how when we look at old religions we refer to them as myths? Like Greek mythology and Roman mythology. And then people go straight on to talk about their own religion as a fact.
Although I hope for there to be something after death where it's better, I know that there isn't anything. I know that we are just a bunch of atoms, protons, electrons, neutrons, and whatever else is in us. I know this because it's fact. And I know that when we die there'll be nothing. And although it's nice to hope for something after this life, and it would be a great thing, I don't think it's worth the hate, the anger, the fighting and the wars that have been caused all in the name of religion.