Religion. Where do you start? We could waffle on about how the dinosaurs are or are not fake or how the ark is or is not sitting on top of a mountain, sorry mountains as I have seen 3 different programmes saying it is on 3 different mountains. But we won’t do that, no we will just talk about the basics. The man, or woman who is someone’s God.
Before we get too far into this no I do not believe in God, never have done and never will. I can’t explain why we are here but you know what? I don’t think I want to! There is an argument that has been used against me by Jehovah’s witnesses of “Everything must have a creator” Ok, so who created God? The answer has always been no one, God has always been there are was not created by anyone or thing. Yeah but you just said that everything needs a creator and God is a thing so they need a creator too! This just causes confusion and shouts of BUT HE JUST IS!!! Why is it so simple to believe that a God put us here rather than some big bang and we grew up out of mud and slime. Actually some of us did and quite a few of us didn’t, politicians for a start! Cheap shot I know but I am in a cheap shot kind of mood!!
So where are we so far, everything needs a creator except a God because they just are and that is easier to believe in than we just are. Ok. Now on to the whole worship thing. Why? Why do I need to show a God that I believe in them? I am either a good person or I am a bad person why does worship have to play a part?? If there was a dictator and they made their people worship every week otherwise they would be killed then they would have the UN and NATO on their doorstep and in years to come after they have been toppled we would talk about their ego. Now I am not saying that God kills people I am saying yes he may have an ego but not kill people. Condemn them to an eternity of nastiness yes but kill them nope. Which brings me nicely on to…
I am friends with a devout catholic. He is a git. He sins a hell of a lot but it’s ok because he is going to confess on his death bed and walk through those pearly gates and sit on Gods knee and be patted for eternity where as I, yes on to me again. I am going to end up with a roasting fork shoved up my butt and be used instead of marshmallows and be toasted for eternity in the fires of hell even though I am a good person. I never understood that, I know I am no angel and I have done things wrong in my life, hey who hasn’t? Let he who something something sin cast the first stone. But if I know I did wrong and I regret it surely it is up to me and the people I hurt to forgive myself not a God?
Now you could be sitting there thinking I know absolutely nothing about religion and that it isn’t really like that and I admit it, I have never studied religion there are huge holes in any argument I make about religion but this is only my opinion and unlike most subjects everyone has a view about religion and the stronger your view the more you know about it. So this must mean I don’t have a strong view on it and again you would be right there. I don’t hate anyone because they have beliefs I don’t, I don’t want to kill anyone for being a sinner, I don’t even care if the God you worship is the one true God or not. But isn’t that in itself a good outlook to have? I don’t understand why people believe and those who believe can’t understand why I don’t believe but we are human, we are not meant to be the same!
I am sorry to have waffled on and had random thoughts on the whole thing but I am trying not too think too much, that is always dangerous! J. My last thought is about worshiping false Gods. If you of the wrong religion then you may end up in the hot place where us non believers are going so you have to make sure you choose the right one right? If you by some chance choose the wrong one then it might not matter, it might turn out that if you have been a good person then you will get to frolic through a pretty garden listening to pretty music for eternity and if you were bad then all the bad things you did in your life will happen back to you. It is even possible that religion is just a test and when you die you will sit in a huge exam room and be tested on the Bible and what it teaches you but what I like to believe is this:
Ok so it would be nice if there was a reason we are here and it would be nice that when we die we get to go somewhere and it does make sense that if you have been a good person then you go to somewhere better than Attila the Hun but I am hoping that if there is an exam you get tested on what life taught you! Not how you lived your life or if you regret it or anything like that but what did you get from it! But I am probably doomed to the roasting fork thing and if I am then I can be told you so just hope those that have gone upstairs have a bit of pity on me and pass the sun block every now and again!
Looking back on this I feel I have gone nowhere with this but then random thoughts hardly go anywhere anyway do they?
Oh, I do like the Bible, it is a cracking read! All that death, revenge, love, drama etc… if it was written today it would be a bestseller! Ok I know it IS a bestseller still but doesn’t that prove what a damn good read it is? Is that why they call it the good book because it is good as opposed to “good” Totally last thought, show me the bible as written by the man himself, not one that has been edited over a couple of thousand years and I may be convinced, only may, but until then…