So, after reading a bit of the article that Bender linked to (couldn't read the whole thing cuz the whole Santa/North Polism started to annoy the shit out of me) it reminded me a lot about how I feel. I am not an atheist, but I'm not a christian/catholic or whatever the hell they call themselves nowadays (cultmembers if you ask me).
I have a lot of questions that will never be answered, and I question everything anyone has ever told me. If you know me, you'll know that as much as I resent my father for a lot of things, I also look up to him. The one thing I always got from my dad was to question any and everything I'm ever told. My father knew from when I was a youngen I was going to be a troublemaker. He knew that the first time he picked me up and I shat/pissed on him. But I think the reason my father always accepted me was although I wasn't half as smart as him, I was twice as ambitious and 4 times more vocal. I always questioned my teachers, my Priest's, my friends, my family members, everyone. In school I got good grades but not great because I questioned most of my teachers reasoning. If I knew something, I knew it, I didn't need to do 80 questions of the same type of math problem to prove I learned it or didn't learn it. I didn't need to write 8 pages on some fucking play that I hated to prove I understood what some english schmuck was trying to say when I could do it in 2. I have always went with my gut and trusted no one but myself. So naturally... I questioned the existence of God and the truth's in the Bible.
I never agreed with the people who argued darwinism was bullshit, and evolution is wrong. They are wrong and it's been proven as far as I'm concerned. I also don't believe those who say that Dinosaurs and monkeys and all that shit proves God doesn't exist, they are full of shit as well. I stopped believing in the bible years ago. It never made sense to me in my head from the getgo. I know people will disagree with me or come up with some great argument but the proof is in the pudding. God changed from a merciless Deity who would rain down fire and brimstone on heathens in a second. Into a forgiving, benevolent and loving God. I don't know about you... but believing in a being that has the ability to go from loving you to dropping fire and brimstone on your ass the next second just isn't how I want to go about my faith.
The argument that God does not exist, is an even harder argument to make. To say this universe just suddenly came to be... imposible (it's spelled in spanish not a typo).. can't be. Something can NOT come from nothing. So that something that made something... you guessed it, God. Yuppers, I believe he made us.
I do think that we as a whole have made up so much stuff about God that either you become foolheartedly involved in the sacred word (which was written by a man, so there is no real way of knowing whether it's all just made up) of Alla, God, Buddha, whoever you pray to. That you stopped using your head. I have always known that faith is a powerful thing and is very necessary, blind faith is a scary thing and should not be trifled with. However... blind faith is all I see around me, and it scares the hell out of me. These muslims killing people in the name of a God they claim protects them. The christians who kill people in the name of a God they claim protects them, the Jews who do the same. The list goes on and on and on. When was the last time this God they all read about has showed himself? This almighty God they pray to all the time should have the power to take the shape and form of a man... however anytime anyone has ever claimed to be God or Godlike has been found. He's labeled crazy, or a cult leader and usually killed and/or thrown in a luny bin. For all the christians/jews/muslims know... they could have imprisoned their beloved God and cast him off forever forsaking themselves.
Sure the atheist's have some good points but so do the believers. Me, I think they both are wrong about God, but I am not about to define him and force my opinions onto others. We already have enough churches and religions doing that as it is. I just ask you to question what you are fed, because for as long as man has been around and able to remember... the man in power has found a way to suppress the weak-minded and religion has always played a part in every stage of man's history. The entire theme of every religion is always to be content and happy and pray to your God and not worry about riches, because virtue is it's own reward. Sounds fishy to me, sounds like a ploy to keep the rich man rich, and the poor man poor... and happy about being poor.
Joe over and out...
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