hope in religon
Hello again, live-journal friends. Its been awhile but I think I will be posting fairly regularly here from now on. If I don't, well, I have a feeling you won't break your hearts over it.
People always tell you heaven is a place of perfect happiness. Its a place where they can somehow make up for whatever brutalities were handed them in life, and that hell is nothing but desolation. No love is known, no joy is known, no God is known. But of course the reason why we know of this desolation is because we have experienced it first hand. As silly a concept as heaven may be, what one must understand is that for some it means hope. When your at that state you need hope, you need to believe that what you going through isn't the end, isn't hopeless. Its not something that can be truly understood until you've been through the same. Its not until you've become utterly and completely alone that you understand a great and all powerful god. And most religions are based on that, not necessarily because there's a greater power but because people need love, people need a greater purpose...people need hope to save themselves from being pulled under.
People always tell you heaven is a place of perfect happiness. Its a place where they can somehow make up for whatever brutalities were handed them in life, and that hell is nothing but desolation. No love is known, no joy is known, no God is known. But of course the reason why we know of this desolation is because we have experienced it first hand. As silly a concept as heaven may be, what one must understand is that for some it means hope. When your at that state you need hope, you need to believe that what you going through isn't the end, isn't hopeless. Its not something that can be truly understood until you've been through the same. Its not until you've become utterly and completely alone that you understand a great and all powerful god. And most religions are based on that, not necessarily because there's a greater power but because people need love, people need a greater purpose...people need hope to save themselves from being pulled under.