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What you are about to read is a deep thought I had about Religion a couple months back. I felt that this was necessary to be posted because it will help set the tone for the type of thoughts I am trying to create and provoke amongst everyone. Please enjoy! Please don't hesitate to add a comment and tell me your thoughts.
Religion is just a combination of philosophy and mythology, meaning that somewhere along the way man was unable to explain the events of nature and also wanted to set up guide lines of rules to live by. The philosophy of Christianities religion is good and should be well practiced. The problem is when people start to believe in the mythology of religion it takes away all logical thinking of what the original philosophy was intended for. Peace, Love, Respect, and the lending of help for one another.
This is the greatest story ever sold to mankind. This creates huge power struggles for years, thus meaning one person will not like the rules that one religion will set in place, then that person will create their own religion and sell it the same vein as the original one they first were taught with a few minor changes. Then the power struggle begins and the fantasies of one’s mind become a bigger selling point to offer to potential new followers. This maybe were the heaven comes from such as, eternal life of riches, or 72 virgins and so on. But, with the selling of the great “heaven” comes the threat of the great “hell”. People need to have a scary opposition to be afraid of, in order for the leader of such religions to keep their followers from straying away from how they think you should live.
In a nutshell I believe that all religion is just a power struggle for who has the best “ideal” to live life by. Mankind will never figure out the riddle to why we are here or why things happen the way they do. Science is a great way to figure out why mankind has made certain things and has somewhat figured out why the earth has mountains and grass etc. but it still will never tell us what we actually are, and why we are here. It is a never ending vicious cycle that spins around and around just like the earth we live on does. It’s my belief that if you just live the best life you possible can and enjoy yourself that the world and others will take care of themselves. If we could all believe in the simple kindness and generosity of the philosophy of the characters of religion and put selfishness aside we could possibly live in a close to utopia of a world.
Unfortunately this will never happen. Selfishness is what got us into these beliefs’ in the first place. It was the selfishness of treating everyone fair and giving and helping to everyone you can. But, there will always be that someone who has to come along and add something new to the original thought. Because they felt over looked or did not get everything they wanted from the first person’s ideal. Because you can only be so selfish to always get what you want, that once you get everything you want, something else comes along that you don’t have, or can’t get and you want that too. Or that something you don’t have you might not like. Then this upsets you and makes you want to fight to show off that you are the one who has everything. This brings us back to the never ending vicious circle of life. We will never be perfect. The world will never be perfect. No one will be completely right and have their utopia of a world. This is why people create the mythology of religion so people can pretend to believe in a perfect world that they will somehow get to.
The point is why let religion or politics bother you?... So you can have something to talk about and or argue about at the dinner table with friends and family? Maybe, but it could also be there so we do communicate with each other and one day all coexist in peace. If there is a God or a perfect world I think the only one underline message is to be respectful and peaceful to everything around you. And I don’t think that fighting and killing each other over who has the better ideals of God or has the better rules to be peaceful and respectful under is what was intended.
We will all never be cookie cutter humans that have the same exact beliefs and the same exact thoughts. This world would not be very much fun or interesting if we did. Maybe the “heaven” and “hell” we are all searching for is actually already here on this earth? Maybe the Heaven part is that we are alive, have a nice family and friends, we are healthy and so on. And Maybe the Hell is the natural disasters that destroy things and so are the murders and war? It might be possible that Heaven and Hell was created by mankind. We created it right here on the planet we exist on. It was created by our ideals and ways of living, because if you create something through a thought and you can’t see it. Maybe, just maybe, that thought will somehow become a reality without anyone really recognizing it.
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4 years ago
Hi there. I saw your blog a while ago, and I saw this post.
ReplyDeleteI've been meaning to read it, but I've been extremely busy with other stuff - up until tonight of course, in which I DID read this post.
(BTW, my name's Chris, and I really like a lot of the stuff you've written about.)
Anyways, I was particularly fascinated with this post in particular.
I myself am a very staunch atheist who has come through personal life experiences to see that the concept of religion in general no longer serves the "good" I once thought it did when I was growing up. (I was raised a Christian, and became an atheist of my own free will.)
I currently promote the elimination of religion rather militantly, despite the fact that even THIS "belief" of mine is met with opposition and criticism.
However, this post has undoubtedly shed a great deal of light onto the topic and you make many points that I do agree with indeed!
One thing though about science that I'd just like to clarify is that it is the very pursuit of Scientific study that goes to define the physical world in which we live in.
Now I know there are those who say that religion is just the same in both the ambition and results of Science in this regard. However, looking at things from a macroscopic point of view, Science truly does put many different questions and curiosities together into one large jigsaw puzzle, piece by piece.
Now, while I am as much of a peacenik as the next person, I don't believe in apathy, in the regards to conflict. My philosophy is to eradicate the problem as a means of benefitting the solution. This is why I honestly believe that getting rid of religion, while just as infeasible as "world peace" is indeed the right course of action for EVERYONE to partake in.
It's not going to solve the world's problems.
But at least it will put people into the PROPER mindsets into approaching such problems.
But all in all, I like what you have to say and I definitely liked that George Carlin video - KUDOS!
I look forward to seeing what you have to say.
Additionally, please feel free to browse through my blog's archives. My posts may be large, but at least they are my complete thoughts, as opposed to just random blurbs.
~chris~