My
Thoughts on Religion
In general I don’t support the idea of organized religion. To me
people should believe what they want to believe and live how they want
to live. All religion does is tell you what is right and what is
wrong, and how you should live. Organized religion discourages independent
thinking, and shuns new ideas.
Religion was basically started because people wanted an explanation for
the unexplainable. But every hundred years or so scientific research
has been able to prove many religious ideas to be false. To me this
means that every single idea about religion could very well be false.
All it says to me is that someone made up explanations with no proof to
back up these beliefs, and got a bunch of people to follow. When
people want explanations badly enough they will believe almost anything.
In my opinion, some things just aren’t meant to be explained. And
if they are, then an explanation will present itself in time.
People tend to be too impatient, wanting an immediate explanation, but
some of the most important things in life must wait.
One of the religions I have the biggest problem with is Christianity.
To me Christianity is a hypocritical religion, which was founded by hypocrites,
and it’s influence was spread by hypocrites. The bible preaches
peacefulness and forgiveness, and "thou shall not kill", but one of the
first thing the Christians did was lead a massive extermination against
the druids. The druids were originally the dominant religious group
in Europe, but when Christianity came along with their beliefs that their
religion was the only religion, they had the idea that people would be
converted or killed. They made this fact apparent once again, during
the witch trials, in which people who were “suspected” of not following
the Christian way of life were burned alive. The church ruled through
fear, and fear alone. It prayed off of the hopeless people, who wanted
something to believe in, and those who didn’t believe were faced with this
choice: Christianity or death.
Obviously Christians aren't as severe today, but many of them are still
hateful people full of contempt for people who choose to follow a different
path. The aren't the compassionate and forgiving people that their
massiah wanted them to be. Jesus supposedly accepted and loved everyone.
He was a teacher, not a judge or an executioner. Granted there are
also Christians whom are very compassionate and caring individuals, but
the religous dogma so many of them are bombarded with seems to only negatively
effect them from my point of view.
However, I don’t want to turn this into an essay about Christianity so
I’ll move on. I have nothing against people who choose to follow
a religion. Everyone is entitled to beleive what they choose, and
I can respect everyone's beleifs, but I cannot respect indivduals who look
down upon other people's ideas, and choose instead to force their own views
upon them.
The major problem I have with organized religion is the fact that each
religion has a structured set of beleifs and rules which a devotee is supposed
to live by. I don't want to have someone tell me what is right and
what is wrong, and how I should live my life. I think these choices
should be left up to me. They should be ideas I formulate on my own
through my own experiences. So basically I have no religion.
However, I have formulated certain beliefs of my own which I have gathered
from various religions. I'm not going to get into my moral beleifs
and values because that would take too long. But I do have some spiritual
beleifs. I believe in an after life. Although I have
stated, that most religious ideas cannot be proven, and therefore should
be assumed false, I believe I have seen and heard enough to make me believe
in a spiritual existence. I still can't say whether there really
is one or not. No one can. But I do believe in one. I
believe that all living things have both a physical and non-physical self.
A spirit, or soul, or astral body, or whatever it is you’d like to call
it. When a spirit leaves the spirit realm, or Nether World as I like
to call it, it merges with a physical being, and becomes one with that
being until death. Upon which, the physical body dies and the spirit
returns to the Nether World. This Nether World is only one place
(unlike the Heaven and Hell scenario), but has different levels.
The first level is where the evil and lost spirits reside, the next level
belongs to your average person, and the next for people who have acheived
spirtual elightenment (like buddishm).
The spirits of the first level are those who “haunt” the physical
realm. These spirits who choose to remain among us, are not necessarily
evil, but just haven’t been able to move on and are thus stuck on the first
level of the spiritual plane. These dwellings for the spirits are
far from permanent. A spirit can leave the spirit world at anytime
and merge with a physical body until it has reached elightenment.
I don't believe in any sort of god or ultimate creator. I don't deny
the possibly of such a thing, but if there is a god or multiple gods, I
don't think they are our judges. We are our own judges. Each
one of us knows if we are truly good people in our hearts, and no god can
decide that for us. If anything they are creators and watchers and
overseers of the Nether World. Nothing more.
So, to sum this all up, I guess everyone needs something to believe
in, but I prefer to believe in myself instead of a god.
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