thirty day meme day two

I looked at this again and pretty much deleted everything I wrote. I think this one was supposed to be either on God or religion… I can’t remember. Probably ‘God’. For good measure, I’ll restate my thoughts on ‘religion’ anyway. I can’t remember what I wrote before so this will be a good chance to see how my thoughts have changed over time.

Organized religion is a crock of shit. Its probably valuable and maybe even necessary in allowing people to come to terms with the world, to gather together and share what they’ve been through, shit like that. I am all for that kinda stuff. But you don’t need organized religion to do that.
What pisses me off is when your religious beliefs override hard facts and science. Something like “I don’t know how this happens, so I’m going to chalk it up to Divine Intervention instead of studying it indepth” kind of annoys me. Somebody attempted to use that on some YouTube video on quantum phenomena and light interference patterns, which, if you don’t know about, isn’t really important to your existence in general so don’t worry about it. (YouTube is a horrible place to get into arguments btw; white knights and trolls everywhere.)

I mean, I do accept science cannot measure all things (otherwise we wouldn’t have things like Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle etc etc on which I have like a grain of understanding of so I’m not gonna say anything and isn’t really important at this point in time) and so really, one can’t really prove as to whether or not there is a God (or if there is not a God). One one of my favourite tumblr bloggers (http://cranquis.tumblr.com) backed up his religious status by giving a hypothetical situation where if, somehow, on some planet in outer space, a series of calculations was found or formulated that would prove the existence of God, it would decompose free will as we would have no choice but to believe in God. By remaining essentially unknowable (is that even a word?) we still have religious freedom and your life is made ever more comfortable by the ability to practice whatever you choose. Which I really like, because hey, you know, free will makes you you. Your choices influence your life, and your experiences blah blah insert sappy obvious shit about how your experiences make you.

This other time I got approached by some studentlife people in Uni, and they attempted to get me to join them because I was ‘interested in coming to spirtual fulfillment blah blah blah’ on some form I had signed (just for the free jandals – they were definitely not worth it, they were flimsy and made of some shitty low-quality foam shit). One person must’ve been assigned to convert me to their cause or whatever; his name was Sean. Attempting to teach me about what I should believe, he said something like
“Hey, you know, unless you know and worship the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, you’re going to go to hell!”
And to this I said, “So what about people out in, say, some foreign nation that no one has heard of? Are they too destined to go to hell?”
To which he replied, “Well, yes, because they haven’t heard the message of Jesus.”
“Even if they’re probably the nicest people on the planet?”
“Yes, because they do not know the saving grace of the Lord Jesus.”
At this point I pretty much was ready to ragequit this shit because that was the most bullshit crap I’ve heard of – and I thought something like ‘How can you believe shit so blindly? That’s horrible and if I were to go to hell for not believing something like that, I’d rather go to hell!’ (I’ll probably regret those words once I find myself in eternal flames or whatnot.)

Yeah, um, personal anecdotes, yay!

Someday I’m gonna read up on Isaac Asimov (even though I should already know about him because hey, I love biochemistry and he’s a biochemist!) because he sounds like a pretty swell guy – his viewpoint on Hell was something like ‘People who invented Hell can go to it! Hell is some crock load of shit made by some fucked up sadist! If humans can curtail cruel and unusual punishment, why wouldn’t the Almighty do likewise?’ (Blame Wikipedia if my wording is a bit off.)

As to my thoughts on God, I believe there’s something out there. Maybe some all-encompassing force of nature serves to influence the universe and nudge it towards its ultimate destiny of (maybe) death and rebirth (I’m imagining something like Puella Magi Madoka Magica meets Asimov’s The Last Question but my readers don’t watch anime ;___; at least y’all read stories and books and stuff! I’m getting off-topic…) but I don’t believe in the traditional Judeo-Christian God of Abraham and his Son who died on the cross for us. Even though I go to church every Sunday (I went today, yesterday, and I will go tomorrow, fucking Easter man!) and partake of the Body and Blood of Jesus – I don’t really believe at all.

I don’t even think its important that I believe in something. It’ll be important for some people, who require a reason to live their life in fear of eternal hell or being reincarnated as a dung beetle or something… But, yeah. When it comes down to it, I’m just living my life how I want to, or how I see fit, or as to how it will please those dear to me.

(Can I do a later blog on reincarnation? It sounds real interesting, I want to be bear or something.)
EDIT: Wow, that one really needed some proof-reading! Hopefully I caught most of those mistakes the second time. (I gotta start proofing every time before I publish shit.)