Friday, November 10, 2006 . 11/10/2006

I've been spending nearly all day today browsing through forums. I always do this when I'm bored, read through people's opinions. There has been quite a rise on religious topics lately, and I especially like looking into those when I'm particularly bored and my mind is fresh.. in other words, not groggy like I am now. My mind literaly feels about ten times bigger. Not to mention my eyes are probably about ten times weaker from this computer screen.

So many opinions, but can there truly only be one answer? Maybe, and maybe not. When it comes to religion, the existance of a god can neither be proved nor disproved, so therefore I think it fair to say that if one side claims a god exists and the other thinks otherwise, they'd both be wrong. Logic ofcourse tells me, as well as many other people, that believing in a god and taking any 'holy book' literaly (whether it be the Christian bible, Quran, whatever) makes just as much sense as say, believing that Frodo really did exist and believing he saved the world.

Both Lord of the Rings and any holy bible pretty much tells a story. Though the main purpose, I think, of holy bibles is to state values in which humanity would be wise to follow, and examples of these values. Hardly anyone would want to read a list, so writing a story to connect all these values together makes sense.

Actually believing a deity exists, however, is more questionable. To me, God just represents the essence of what we know to be 'good', not an actual being in a literal sense. Some of the values in the Christian bible would truly be wise to embrace, I think, but then again, one person's values varies from another person's, like opinions do.

The Christian bible is made up of many books put together, ofcourse, and it was written and rewritten by various people in various timeframes. It has been edited; things added, things removed.. basically, to give God a more peaceful 'personality', I guess you could say, as the Old Testament shows him as being brutal, unjust, racist, among many other things.

These people who have rewritten the bible could have very well been added onto and revising what they thought the true God to be like, changing his motives and the like. If there truly was a God, he would be looking down on the people who supposedly wrote his word and shake his head. If you were to tell someone to write a biography about you and your thoughts, and then this gets rewritten to what the next author thinks is true, and if this goes on.. it doesn't change the original person. So, even if there was a God, he isn't the same one that people have been worshipping.

Some may question why I even bother thinking about that stuff. You're only sixteen, go out and have some fun! Truth is, thinking is fun for me. While I do enjoy acting stupid, and yes, I DO have a sense of humor.. I also enjoy time alone so that I can think.

Call me an equivillant of some old guy, a smart person, a nerd, a geek, whatever..

That's ok.

And I just realised that I am pretty much arguing with myself since barely anyone bothers to comment, or at the very least read all this. Pssht. 0 Comments - Post/view comments