Hell on Earth pt.2
I think too much about God and religion for an agnostic. Then again, maybe I should. The point is, I had this image when I read that article. If God had a sense of humor, she should take the non-sinners to heaven, and leave the rest of us here. But, since we’re so attached to this life, since we’re so materialistic, she should make us all immortal. As a punishment.
You might think that’s silly. Think again. 100 billion people. No one dying. Death in life.
I had chilling visions of people being buried in blocks underwater after they surpass a certain age. People tagged with expiry dates. No food. People chewing on their own limbs for sustenance. People starving to LIFE every single day. Red dust filling the sky (don’t know where red dust comes from, but hey! It’s my vision… Terminator 2, maybe)…
Why would an allmighty god be such a jerk? Why would she sit and watch while 300′000 die because of a Tsunami. And why are we supposed to be good? What kind of god, omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscience, as it were, would just sit and watch? What kind of god would keep mankind wondering? What kind of god focuses only on the middle east to send her sons and prophets?
No god. That’s what. Sims/Simcity are two very popular games. You play god (or the myor). Either way, you are in control of lives. You can influence lives any which way. What do you naturally do? You help. You organize. You develop. You take pleasure in the progress you observe. You don’t sit back and watch. Omnibenevolent. Why isn’t that listed as an omni-attribute of god? Or would that be asking too much?
Isn’t it silly that people still follow organized religion? The moral values are intrinsic, people. We are moral beings. I don’t need the church to tell me not to steal! I don’t need the church to tell me to be a good person. The three God-based religions are responsible for most of the mass murders, persecutions, violence, and general evil-doing in these past two thousand years. Why? In the NAME OF GOD.
Well, I might be moved to admit that I can’t deny that God exists, simply because, as a logical person, I can’t tell for sure. I know this, however. The bible? The Koran? The Torah? All teach you how to live in their respective eras. They are deprecated books that controlfreaks need in order to brainwash the masses.
God would not brainwash his subjects to fly planes into building, or blow themselves up for his sake. Nor would he bribe them with 72 virgins, mind you. God would not decide, on a whim, that pork is bad, or blowjobs are good. God would not decide that women are inferior to men. God would not decide that we should all take a break on Sunday and cheer for him. God, if she existed, would probably not give a rat’s ass what we do. I don’t care what the person sitting next to me on a bus choses to do, as long as it doesn’t harm me. Why should God be such a baby? Why should she have such an image problem, such low self-esteem that she’d need people to cheer her on 5 times a day or once a week?
I say, ridiculous. Religion, my ass. Religion is a tool to control the weak. Religion is evil incarnate. Religion is the devil’s tool, and God is acting through the modern, intelligent man to reverse it, and finally bring back the age of enlightenment. If you think you can convince me otherwise, bring it on.
April 30th, 2005 at 1:41 am
Cool Blog.
April 30th, 2005 at 12:14 pm
Maybe some people need religion.You are right that God doesn’t give a damn and in the end we are all going to die. But people have needed explanations since the beginning of time, long before the appearance of monotheistic religions. This is why they created all those gods in their cultures and “behaved” for fear of experiencing their wrath. Maybe the whole idea of religion is to instill fear and therefore prevent evil in people. I am a good person with morals and ethics not because God told me to be like that, granted. But moral values are not intrinsic, tempest, or else there wouldn’t be evil in the world. Moral values are the product of a million things (some more complex than others) that end up forging the person you become: your childhood, upbringing, background, surroundings… But maybe if there wasn’t religion around, people would be a lot more evil, I dunno.
Some people also find a haven in religion, a consolation from things that are beyond their comprehension. Maybe if you get pissed off or grief-stricken or discouraged or whatever, you light up a cigarette. Other people pray. It’s just another way to help them deal with their crisis.
I’m not much of a religious person myself, and I went through many things at the onset of adolescence that turned me into a non-believer for quite a while (Like you said: If there really is a God, why does He let this happen?). But even your logic cannot refuse to acknowledge that there is someone out there, or something at least, behind all that big banged universe.
April 30th, 2005 at 7:24 pm
u would think i would be shocked by several things in this post but what really got to me is that u kept on reffering to God as a she!
April 30th, 2005 at 8:38 pm
Delirious! I would disagee about moral values not being intrinsic. Not everyone need abide by them, but my intension was to point out that wrong and right, at a high level of abstraction, are clearly distinguishable. Murder is wrong. Even murderers realise that.
Personally, I am an enemy of religion. And my enmosity varies depending on how much the particular religion disrupts my life. I dislike Christianity because of the dogma it tries to force down our throats, and because of the control the church tries to have. The same applies for Judaism. I hate Islam because of the above, as well as the fact that it sanctions mass murder. (Christianity and Judaism have evolved past that a little bit).
I know that these things are due, in many cases, to the power hungry clergy, rabiis and cheikhs that (may or may not) twist religious doctrines for their own aims. However, I call it as I see it. We live in a real world, and I measure things by how they are, not how they are intended to be.
Ram!! Why not? Why should God be a he?
Anyway, I don’t mean to insult, that was just my 2 cents on the issue.
By the way, if I’m not mistaken, we’ve met before…