first time posting, wanted to jump in on this religion issue. first of all, i consider myself an agnostic, rejected religion as soon as i starting really thinking about it. i just wanted to ask all of you who have so much faith in the words of the bible, doesn't it frighten you that it has been translated at all, first of all from one language to another...inevitably losing some meaning in translation, and second of all(forgive my assumptions, i am not an authority on the bible) isn't it true that the king james version is the most widely used? the king james version...i love that. which version, that is someone else's interpretation and therefore has their superimposed ideas in it, do you want to read today?
on heaven and hell: heaven seems like a pretty boring place to me. and hell doesn't sound so fun either. it seems to me that there could quite possibly be an after life,i don't have any proof to make me think that one does not exist. lately i've been thinking that there is one, i have no real valid reason for believing it, but when i thinkof the expanse of the universe, or questions like when was the eginning of time?i feel secure in my thoughts that there is something higher than life on this earth. but it also makes sense to me that like this world, the afterlife will be a very subjective experience, it will be what you make of it. if belonging to a religion in this life makes you content then all the more power to you. if you want to do good deeds and love your fellow man, and you think that abiding by the rules of a religion will make you a better person,and more comfortable,happy if you want to say; then it will, in this life and the next. but the only way you will condemn yourself to what i consider a hell is if you regret what you did in your life. i honestly think that if hitler believed what he was doing was right, he will not suffer in the afterlife. i know i'll get some hate mail for saying that, but my point is...live your life to the fullest, and how you want to live it, and you'll make the most of your existence.
for you who do believe in the bible, why did god create dinosaurs?
something else to contemplate, and another reason why i am cautious of religion and strong beliefs...if those who do not sin go to heaven, and babies have obviously not sinned yet, why am i not going around and killing as many babies as i can, sending them to heaven. i'll go to hell myself, but i could know that i was sending as many as 20-30 babies straight to heaven before i was caught. or would i go to hell? would i be a martyr in saving those babies from the chance to sin?
i love babies by the way.
from a tool album: "no true ritual magician has ever sacrificed life, drank goat's blood, or taken part in any other stupid urban legend ritual. this sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on t.v. everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. beliefs are dangerous. beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. a non-functioning mind is clinically dead. believe in nothing.
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