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Someone yesterday rather took me to task over the idea of, and my ideas surrounding religion and or the existence of God...
As I sit and watch my first grandchild being indoctrinated, I'm both upset, but restrained from expressing my opinions -- as I am with so many facets of my life -- out loud, so here I am, pouring my proverbial soul out to the world in the most anonymous form possible...
I was raised by loving parents, neither of whom ever embraced, nor shunned any given religion. We never really talked about it, nor was I ever coerced into practicing any sort of dogma when I was growing up as so many children of every religion are...
As such, my thoughts on the matter are this;
A Supreme Being, aka God may or may not exist. I have no idea. I'm not in the know on that one. I'd like to think, but I can't seem to force myself to "believe" that God exists in some form or another and I would wholly welcome them if they do, but I'm woefully dumb on that part as a simple human being, one of a trillion or so that has existed on this Earth since recorded time began...
That being said, I can only address what I do know from both personal experience and historical fact...
Now.. God. If you're reading this amongst a bajillion other things you have to keep up with every second of every day, I apologize. You know that in my heart, I don't want to offend or anything, so please don't smite me as I get on the airplane today for my business trip, but before I go, I just have to get all of this out of my head, write or wrong, and put it down on proverbial paper...
If there were, in fact, Djinn, and I rubbed a proverbial bottle for three wishes, I can only think of one, and that would be to be all-knowing so that at least I could put this subject to rest in my own heart.
It worries me at the very core sometimes.
As I sit and watch my first grandchild being indoctrinated, I'm both upset, but restrained from expressing my opinions -- as I am with so many facets of my life -- out loud, so here I am, pouring my proverbial soul out to the world in the most anonymous form possible...
I was raised by loving parents, neither of whom ever embraced, nor shunned any given religion. We never really talked about it, nor was I ever coerced into practicing any sort of dogma when I was growing up as so many children of every religion are...
As such, my thoughts on the matter are this;
A Supreme Being, aka God may or may not exist. I have no idea. I'm not in the know on that one. I'd like to think, but I can't seem to force myself to "believe" that God exists in some form or another and I would wholly welcome them if they do, but I'm woefully dumb on that part as a simple human being, one of a trillion or so that has existed on this Earth since recorded time began...
That being said, I can only address what I do know from both personal experience and historical fact...
- People -- in general -- suck. Not everyone. Not even anyone in specific, including Joe Biden... (He does his best for a dementia-ridden puppet)..
Modern-day society, particularly American society anyway, seems to have had several generations of devolution to the point where the current generation believes "Reality TV" is real, and that in order to get ahead, you have to be "insta-famous" and act like they do on TV... I don't, in point of fact, know anyone between the ages of 15 and 30 who don't think that way..
- The "Word of God" doesn't exist, at least it hasn't been available to we mere mortals for some 1500+ years. What we do have, whether the Bible, the Koran, or any other text, has been bent, twisted, rewritten, and so poorly translated (repeatedly) over the years that it's wholly unrecognizable. In the case of Christianity, entire texts have been removed and forgotten simply because they didn't support the narrative of the reigning regime at the time. (Think King James version, or the New King James Version).
The rest of the Dead Sea Scrolls (which might not be the only texts to have existed, but may be the only ones to survive) have been squirreled away by the Vatican for over a thousand years, and there's now -- quite literally -- not a single person on the planet who can fully translate them from the original texts without inserting their own beliefs... If you pay attention, there's still vacuous debate amongst even Biblical scholars over what amounts to punctuation and inflection to support ideals.
- Indeed, the whole concept of Religion in itself seems to be a man-made premise. One that has been used and perverted through the millennia to control the population...
Now.. God. If you're reading this amongst a bajillion other things you have to keep up with every second of every day, I apologize. You know that in my heart, I don't want to offend or anything, so please don't smite me as I get on the airplane today for my business trip, but before I go, I just have to get all of this out of my head, write or wrong, and put it down on proverbial paper...
If there were, in fact, Djinn, and I rubbed a proverbial bottle for three wishes, I can only think of one, and that would be to be all-knowing so that at least I could put this subject to rest in my own heart.
It worries me at the very core sometimes.
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