Thursday, November 09, 2006 . 11/09/2006
Thursday already.. time is sure going by fast.I should probably be reading from my history textbook right now, but I pulled a neck muscle and it really hurts.. though that isn't an excuse since I'm on the computer, after all.
My mom said that she noticed that now I'm doing school at home I've become a bit more social, and this is true. When I'm at school I get overstimulated, what with all the noise and the fact I get annoyed so easily. Now that I have some quiet, it's better, and I have more energy to deal with people.
For Thanksgiving, some people will be coming over. I'm a bit nervous about it.. but it would also be a good opportunity to discuss beliefs. I have been waiting for so long for the right moment to do this, which is why I jump at every opportunity to go to my aunt and uncle's house, a family reunion, whatever. Maybe this Thanksgiving will be it. Maybe someone will go over the top on saying how good their god is, or force me to believe, and then I'll have a reason to start up a discussion. Something for them to think about, another explaination for how the world works.
I wonder if religion will ever go away. Some say that as long as someone is afraid of death, religion will stay. People are so insecure. It's okay to believe that there's some afterlife (I personally think there is some form of life after death) but when logic gets completely thrown aside, that's when it needs to stop.
I have a few out of many examples of ignorance that I'll put down. The first is my dad. He refuses to believe that the bible was rewritten over the centuries. He says that all the people who wrote the bible were in different countries with no contact to eachother at all, and so therefore it must be true. Wrong and wrong. It was started by a group of monks and was rewritten several times, 40 to be exact. Forty times in a span of 1500 years.
The second is my friend's mom. She says that she is sheltered, the reason being that she is only allowed to watch movies with Jesus in it, and Harry Potter is forbidden. This to me makes absolutely no sense at all, and it's so stupid that I don't even know where to begin, especially on the 'movies with Jesus' part. Let's just say that doing this completely seperates you from reality, and to force it on your own daughter is just plain wrong. What does her mom expect her to do in the future, curse everything not to do with Jesus? She'll be humiliated!
The third is an online friend who is also sheltered. He says that his parents raised him in a way so that he feels guilty about things, such as not going to church for example. This can completely ruin someone's life.
It's about time people open up their eyes, ears, and use their brains for once. Believing in a god is just outdated, to put it bluntly. A long time ago, people didn't know how things came into being or how animals and humans got to be the way they are now, so they made up gods to explain this. But now, we have proven evolution, we have proven that there is a logic exlaination for things that were once dubbed as 'supernatural'. My dad says that evolution hasn't been proven, when it fact it has been. All you have to do is look it up, and evidence is everywhere.
Evolution isn't always this obvious. When you get a flu shot every year, for example, this because the virus has evolved.. yes, EVOLVED.. to be immune to the antibiotic. Therefore, a new, updated one has to be used. This is the reason in itself why we get flu shots every year.
But how did people grow so intelligent? some might ask. We evolved over thousands of years, do you know how long that is? Many things can happen in this timespan, including the ability to adapt to the environment. Without this ability, we would be dead. Hell, everything would be dead. Times change, and so do the organisms that live here. If a god made us one way and one way only, we would be dead.
But evolution and creationism can go together. No, they can't. In the Christian bible specifically, it is stated that God created all things as they are today. For people to theorize that perhaps this god helped evolution along is against the bible, and that would be considered a "sin", to not believe.
Which brings me to another point: people who cherry-pick things in their bible, choosing some things to believe in and ignoring others, yet they still call themselves (insert religion)s. Is that not a sin, to refuse their god's word?
But the bible isn't to be taken literally, they are just a list of values. Why is it then that this religion exists in the first place? If you can pick what to believe in and what not to, why not just ditch the bible, koran, whatever it is, and start thinking for yourself? In a way, religious people ARE thinking for themselves in that they are finding flaws in their own holy books, thus the 'cherry-picking'. Simply put, religion is mostly devoid of logic. To pick some things as right and others not IS logic. Congratulations, you are just one step away from actually thinking for yourself.
Your god calls you followers 'sheep' for a reason. That is like saying we as humans are stupid and will follow a leader aimlessly. It is about time we break free from this ridiculous notion.
There are so many religions in the world. Only one can be right. Given the above explainations, I'd say none are. They are nothing but fairy tales. 2 Comments -
I'm sorry this is an anonymous comment. I don't have a blog to be identified with. I wouldn't normally randomly comment on someones blog, I'm not even sure how I ended up on yours, but I felt compelled to make an observation and ask you a question. It sounds to me that you are lying in wait with all your guns loaded and ready to go off on some unsuspecting family member who casually brings up their faith on a holiday. You have all your arguments thought out and articulated, but you are preparing to do battle with someone who is blind sided by your challenge. Doesn't seem fair. The question I wanted to ask you is about evolution. I assume you believe in the big bang theory. My understanding of this theory is that at some point 20 million years ago, all the matter that makes up the universe was compressed into a mass that exploded, creating our universe. Here is my question: Where did the original mass come from?
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12:22 PM
What I really meant by waiting for someone to mention their beliefs, is if they somehow forced them on me. I should have made that more clear.
I don't exactly believe in the 'big bang' theory. In fact, I'm not certain myself on how the very first molecule, mass, whatever, came to being. Perhaps it was always there. Just because people can't explain something doesn't mean that a god is responsible.
Simply put, no one knows.
Ofcourse the existence of a god can't be verified. What was on my post was something for people to think about, another explaination for how the world works.
Thanks for bringing this up, as I really should make these things more clear in the future.
