Digging at work helps fill the day…that first 45 minutes before the coffee kicks in, the 15 minutes before lunch, the hour after lunch whilst things digest, the 15 minute coffee break at 4 and the last half an hour before I go home. Inevitably I read bits that stimulate thoughts on existence, what I’m doing with my life etc etc and found this picture of the typical Bible Bashers promotion to try and guilt trip you into attending church this Sunday.
Well in the comments I found this particular comment by a so called Trinity (cliche Matrix wannabes can post interesting comments at times apparently)
Don’t argue with christians guys it’ll only piss you off. How can you beat someone who’s wrong but “knows” they’re right. You’ll only get pissed off. At least you can say to took the high road.
It was right up my alley really and quite deep if you can ignore the poor punctuation, grammar and non capitalisation (I can hardly lecture about writing I know..).
I’ve been known to tickle the feathers of many a Christian in my time, and have a perverse fascination with it. I am quite well read on the religion as a whole, and this comment shares the general attitude I get when trying to voice my opinion. If you’re going to have to listen to their bullshit its always handy to have a counter argument to the shit they’ll try and coax you in with. In the words of Rage Against The Machine, “Know Your Enemy” is the only defense you have.
It always amazes me how someone with such strong beliefs is the least likely to listen to your own opinions and beliefs. They’re the first to reject anything other than their own doctrine as the truth when there is plenty of evidence to support other “theories”.
Christians don’t really have much to go off, and what they do have has been twisted, reworded, sections removed, edited to fit in with whatever agenda the Christian Missionaries and Crusaders had at the time. You have to laugh when the ideals of 2000 years ago can be hung upon word for word, yet evidence disproving their doctrine with modern science is dismissed as blasphemy, Satans work or just ignored completely.
To be honest I’m not out to kill Christianity specifically, its just closer to home for me and I have to deal with it every day. I’m sure if any religion was forced upon me I would “rebel” against it just the same. I just wish people wouldn’t quote the Bible as if it was the only solution…
I mean I could never accept a religion that forced me to accept it as the only truth and denounce all other Gods and possibilities. Just over a hundred years ago scientists thought the atom was a “plum pudding” then they researched and human driven technology allowed us to find nano particles and all the other “fluff” in an atom that we could never have imagined existed… religions are no different, and I always like to keep my options open.
The question I always get asked is “how can you live a good moral life without religion” and people who ask this question get the same look like the next thing Im going to do is punch them in the face. What you’re trying to say in that is that you think I’m that fucking stupid that without a book I can’t tell the difference between right and wrong, or that you’re that stupid… either way I’m antagonised into responding where normally I should just walk away.
If you’re such a moron that you can’t work out that killing, adultery, stealing, lying and greed are wrong then you need help and maybe you should be cleansed from the gene pool. The first 4 commandments are bullshit to begin with, then honouring my mother and father because God says so without them having to earn respect, lead their own good life is also bullshit (If my parents are Satan worshiping heathens is it still commanded that I honour them… I mean where do you draw the line on that one?). The last 5 “commandments” are just common sense/the law so outside of that you have a whole host of fun to be had if its only by those laws you live (no wonder Catholic Ministers think its ok to bum alter boys).
Rather than teaching religion in schools we should analyse all religions and take the lessons that are to be had from all religions and use them to better ourselves. Religion has a lot to offer the human race, and is also filled with a lot of bullshit, but we can only learn from it if we accept them for the stories and guilt trips they are; in 2007 we don’t need the guilt part (commercialisation and global conglomerate has this covered), or the silly practices involved. Maybe if we took the best elements from all religions and created one Super Religion that aimed to teach rather than preach we would be able to evolve and grow, but whilst people are still killing themselves in the name of God, Allah or whatever the fuck you want to call your divine spirit, we will continue to expand but never develop.
