Don't know why I feel the need to blog about this but I do, even when my nails aren't 100% dry...I wanna blog about religion.
I don't 100% believe in God. I just don't understand if there is a God why different cultures' god is different, their bible is different etc. If there is a God he would be the entire people's God. I have never read the bible but i have been to church. Several different kinds of church as a matter of fact. I think the bible is like an aesops fable....a story made entertaining for the people of the ages to live without sin. Don't cheat on your wife, don't steal etc...
My whole take from religion is "treat others as you would have others treat you." Which is odd because when I went to church 80% of the church goers did just the opposite, looked down their noses, gossiped, sinned, cheated etc.
I can have faith and treat others with kindness from the comfort of my own home.
I believe in faith and the power of the people. When I wrote that i was depressed the mass amounts of kindess and people made me feel better.
I am always reminded of something that happened when I worked at the Turnpike, when people talk about God coming to your need....When I worked at the Turnpike a van filled with a husband, wife and I think 3 children were trapped in the flood and they were devout. They sat in their car and prayed for God to save them and 3 times that night a State Trooper came to their window and tried to persuade them to get out, urged them, begged them, but still they prayed for God to come. Everyone in that van drowned except for the father. If this story would have ended with "they prayed for God and God sent an Angel in the form of a Trooper and he saved the family", I might have believed in God that day. Instead I think those people were sad and ignorant.
If I believe in some faiths than I should disbelieve in ghosts, reincarnations, abortion, gay and lesbian marriage...and I refuse to do that. I believe I have felt ghosts. I believe my husband when he says he saw a ghost. I believe my children saw ghosts when they were younger. I believe there is a circumstance for every situation and some situations call for abortion. Do i think it is right for everyone? Hell No but can you imagine the mass amounts of unwanted and abused children out there without it? Everyone deserves love. Every person, man, woman, black, white, blue, pink. I judge no one. I al so am not one to discount anything if I have not seen it myself. I have never seen God so I don't disbelieve in him but I have seen kindness in others. I have seen the prosperity, value, of "Pass it On" - passing of the kindess. I have seen the benefits of kindness and giving of oneself.
So am I religious? In my one way, I am. the religion of Daya - where I treat others with kindness and believe in anything that could be possbile. I judge no one. Would you like to join the religion of Daya and sit at home wherever you and be kind to others??
I think if there was a God neither would he or she. I was lead to believe that God is a loving God. A god that says love others as you would want to be loved but only if they straight...not so much.
I also think it is ridiculous that you can ask forgiveness before you de and be forgiven for all your indescretions. So okay, I will steal and rape and murder and torture and live my life full of hate and loathing but as i lay dying I will ask god for forgiveness and he will open up his gate for me. I wouldn't do it.
Stay Funny San Diego, Daya
1 comment:
Wow! If Julie was on Facebook and read this she'd think you'd been hangin' around me, lol - except for the supernatural stuff.
I think we were created somehow but doubt a deity has a watching eye or, as you said, there wouldn't be so much cruelty and death in the world.
I was a philosophy minor (lacked one class of making it my double major) and believe in Christianity as a philosophy. You must too - be kind to others, pass it on, etc. We have to be at our best not for a god but as examples for our children and grandchildren and hope they live their lives according to the Gosple of Daya, etc.
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