Religion and God

As you can probably tell from my blogs I’m a pretty simple person, my life isn’t complicated. It’s pretty much the result of my attitude and the way I think. I might take on some subject matter that is complicated, like electronics but I live my life in a simple way. Life is just not that complicated so when you try to live your life complicated you are living against yourself. Yeah not a good explanation, but it really is what I believe.

So for me when I look at the world what is happening etc., I always see things from a simple perspective. The RIAA’s sue the world campaign to me is not about trying to stop piracy but to stop or at least slow down support of innovation, innovation that will allow current and future artists to go on their own, that threatens to take the music monopoly away from the record labels. Movies you buy that have the warning message about pirating, copyright and all that stuff, that message only exists in movies you have bought, the message has no meaning to someone who is going to pirate the movie, so why is it there ? Why do large companies do a lot of what they do, well some of it might be strange like a warning label that says to not eat the cotton inside the bottle but chances are there was a lawsuit and that’s why the label is there. But for the other stuff the answer is also simple, the companies are being run by lost souls, folks who have lost the common sense to do the right thing and are now possessed by greed.
Which then brings me to religion and god. So let me tell you a little story, my dad was and is a real peace or work, he was very abusive towards my mom and I had the displeasure of living with him for a year and experience that abuse. Because of his current girlfriend, she might go to church every Sunday but there is no place in heaven for her, she’s just plain nasty, and my dad’s abusive behavior I have no relationship with him, surprisingly I had no regrets when I made that decision. Now let’s go back in time, I’m 4 or 5 years old, my mom had enough of the abuse and decided to seperate from my dad. Now I don’t remember much of the details back then but there was this one event that I can never forget, at a church we used to visit regularly the priest told my mom that because she decided to seperate from my dad that this was going against god and that she was not invited to return to church, huh. Even at 4 or 5 years old I was smart enough to know what this priest was saying and doing was 100% wrong, but I made a mistake and thought that this really was gods wish. When I grew up, gained some wisdom, grew smarter I came to the conclusion this was not what god wanted but only what Catholic religion wanted.
And that’s when I started to put two and two together and started to see religions for what they are, an organization in it for power and using god as a means to achieve that power. Religion has nothing to do with living your life right and all that stuff, but to surrender to them, yeah like that will ever happen, well with me anyways. The more I looked at what religions where doing the more I started to find that I could not tell the difference between them, I couldn’t even tell the difference between religion and cults since they all had the same goal, to achieve power, rule over the people.
And take a look at the history of any religion and you’ll notice they seem to keep getting things wrong, or better yet take a look at how they handled things when they were wrong. Remember all the priests who molested young boys, those priests where being protected, moved to other locations etc. so that the church could avoid lawsuits. They were more concerned about the lawsuits and going bankrupt then to see justice served, more concerened about money then stopping the evil. Even today that blows my mind away.
So then I think, well how is with a bible, the writen word of god and all that stuff, and lets not forget the 10 commandments, how is that religiion could get simple common sense stuff so wrong time and time again. Heck just the 10 commandments alone should of stopped most of the “wrong”, but it did not. Well as archaeologists make and more discoveries they are also inaverdently proving that a lot of the contents in the bible never happened, there is no Noah’s Ark so that never happened. Moses (with some help ) parted the Red Seas so that the Isrealites slaves could excape their capters to freedom. Hmmm well except as it turns out the Isrealites were not slaves and did not need saving from the Egyptians, so another story that’s just fiction ? So how can one seperate the fiction from the actually story of god if there are any? I really don’t know. A conspiracy maybe or I’m I putting too much into this maybe a simple mistake at the time, you decide.
I don’t blame religion for everything exactly, for example when it was discovered that earth was not the centre of the universe but that earth evolved around the sun that theory did not sit well with religion, again more concerned about it’s grip on the people. It’s how religion handled the discovery that contradicted current belive. It’s how they handled anyhting, they imprisoning people, some were executed and other acts that can only be described as evil, how even if one truely believed that the earth really was the centre of the universe, improsnment or even execution not the actions of good people.
So what’s my believe on god and all that stuff, well I believe god is real and exists. It’s religion I don’t believe in, I think religion is really nothing more then an organiztion that has it’s own agenda, power and all that evil stuff and they are using god as a way to achieve those goals. I don’t think god has ever been inside a church or been part of a religion simply because there is no room for him, politics has taking up all the seats.
And when I live my life and want to stay on gods good side, which believe me I do, I live it with one simple rule, follow my heart, use my commen sense and my gut and that will lead me down the right path.
And now to possibly piss off religion but I really don’t care, here’s my thoughts on some stuff. Did god create the universe and who knows what else, yep but I also believe he has given everyone and everything freedom, even though on occasion he might interfere with something or someone we are free to make our choices, and live with the consequences of our choices as well. I don’t think if you go do something wrong and then ask to be saved from the consequences that god will help you. I think he’ll let you sufer the consequences to help you learn from your actions, but some people seem to be slow learners
Does hevean exist, yep. Does the devil and hell, nope. Turns out hell was just a story to scare us in the way of religion and the devil if you do any research is just an imaginary creature that Christians created from parts of other religion. Their way of saying other religions are evil.
So if there’s no hell etc. then why should I live my life on the good side of god, there doesn’t seem to be any consequences. Hmmm yeah well I think there are consequences be being a dick just not really sure what they are. One thought is that if you don’t deserve to go to heaven yet, you come back on earth as something else and try and try again until you get it right. Purgotory is another. So beats me, but doesn’t matter to me since my goal is to get in the gates of heaven.
There are things I don’t understand like homosexuals, well sort of. I just can’t see why one man would fall in love with another man, have sex with him etc. but that’s more my prejudice, just because I don’t understand doesn’t mean I have to hating, and it certainly doesn’t give me the right to start quoting some book and claiming god hates you. But then having said that I do find two women having sex very erotic. So why the difference with two men and two women, beats me, I’m just telling the truth here.
As I’ve said before I see no difference between any religions and cults, just an organiztion trying to achieve power, full control over the people, well good luck on that goal, corporations seem to winning that battle, well for now. I think corparations will be getting theirs in the near future.
I don’t always make the right decision, sometimes I for some reason ignore my heart, gut and even common sense get it wrong. What makes me different then religion is how I handle the situation when I come to realize I was wrong, I right away own up to it and whatever consequences that might result. Can’t say the same for religion, even when they know they were wrong they are more concerned about their money and power, so they continue to do wrong.
I’m going to make a bold statement here, forget about religion, you won’t go to hell or even be punished for not bothering with religion. Instead live your life with common sense and a good heart and you will do just fine. And remember this in the future, let’s say 10 years for now and compare what religion has done and what you have done and you will see you have been living your life closer to god while religion has not.