I personally do not believe in any kind of God or "higher power" however I would just like to post some of my commentary on religion as a whole.
I just watched Stephen Colbert speaking of scientology which one of the large theories revol
ving around Scientology (also not very well known) is that 75 million years ago a space leader named Xenu killed billions of his alien people by placing them around volcanoes and murdering them with a giant hydrogen bomb (if you would like more information go here). He stated that if the scientologists would like to make this more believable they could add a talking snake and a virgin who has babies. This caused me to think about the philosophy behind The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the fact that religion is so unbelievable. People invest there lives into this book that speaks of so many things that they have no idea if they are true or not. You can completely relate "God" to "Xenu" to the "Flying Spaghetti Monster", each one is just as believable as the next.
I think that religion is a beautiful idea, a truly beautiful idea. But just using the logic which evolution has thrust upon me I choose not to donate my life to these theories which hav
e very, very little evidence behind them. I do seriously wish that there was evidence behind religion because the idea of religion is the most poetic and artistic thought that I believe has ever occurred. The main ideas behind christiantity are in a few words: peace, love, and an understanding for what life means. But that is only the idea of religion the reality of religion is much more bleak. In my opinion most religions are just a very large company scamming good people who are looking for more in there lives. Many religious folks are incrdibly judgemental of other people who are not religious. There has never been an atheist president, I'm pretty sure that every single president of the United States has been religious. Our own x-president Bush (oh how good it feels to say/type that!) truly and whole heartedly believed that God told him to be the president. I have a feeling that, that fact probably turned a lot of votes.
Even a liberal democratic president (Obama) had an incredibly long prayer at his innagur ation, not to mention the fact that he reffered to the atheist population as "non-believers" which I was slightly offended by because I feel it implies that the atheist population of America don't believe in anything. I don't know about the rest of the atheists of the US but I sure as
hell believe in many things and just because I don't believe in a big white man in the sky doesn't mean I should be put into a category of a "non-believer".
So in conclusion in a world completely run by the idea of a "higher power" where is the place for us atheists?
PS if you're looking for a good atheist web site this one caught my eye. Although beware it's pretty anti-religion/God and stuff.
I just watched Stephen Colbert speaking of scientology which one of the large theories revol
ving around Scientology (also not very well known) is that 75 million years ago a space leader named Xenu killed billions of his alien people by placing them around volcanoes and murdering them with a giant hydrogen bomb (if you would like more information go here). He stated that if the scientologists would like to make this more believable they could add a talking snake and a virgin who has babies. This caused me to think about the philosophy behind The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the fact that religion is so unbelievable. People invest there lives into this book that speaks of so many things that they have no idea if they are true or not. You can completely relate "God" to "Xenu" to the "Flying Spaghetti Monster", each one is just as believable as the next.I think that religion is a beautiful idea, a truly beautiful idea. But just using the logic which evolution has thrust upon me I choose not to donate my life to these theories which hav
e very, very little evidence behind them. I do seriously wish that there was evidence behind religion because the idea of religion is the most poetic and artistic thought that I believe has ever occurred. The main ideas behind christiantity are in a few words: peace, love, and an understanding for what life means. But that is only the idea of religion the reality of religion is much more bleak. In my opinion most religions are just a very large company scamming good people who are looking for more in there lives. Many religious folks are incrdibly judgemental of other people who are not religious. There has never been an atheist president, I'm pretty sure that every single president of the United States has been religious. Our own x-president Bush (oh how good it feels to say/type that!) truly and whole heartedly believed that God told him to be the president. I have a feeling that, that fact probably turned a lot of votes. Even a liberal democratic president (Obama) had an incredibly long prayer at his innagur ation, not to mention the fact that he reffered to the atheist population as "non-believers" which I was slightly offended by because I feel it implies that the atheist population of America don't believe in anything. I don't know about the rest of the atheists of the US but I sure as
So in conclusion in a world completely run by the idea of a "higher power" where is the place for us atheists?
PS if you're looking for a good atheist web site this one caught my eye. Although beware it's pretty anti-religion/God and stuff.
You're pretty much awesome.
ReplyDeleteThanks :D
ReplyDeleteThe church of the subgenius is all and none of these things. Praise 'Bob'! :D
ReplyDeleteI would've included the church of the subgenius in my little article except for the fact that I don't know much about it... let me borrow the book!
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