Follow Up To Religion

Disclaimer: Sorry if I am at all repetitive of my earlier post, I didn’t take the time to reread it before writing this one.

First off, I was amused to see that I actually got comments on this post that weren’t essentially telling me I’m going to hell. If anyone who read it and wanted to comment that, but felt to Christian, please, don’t hold back. I’m really just a comment whore.

But moving to the actual topic of such post.

First thing, I was asked to explain miracles. Well, it was a miracle that I was born and that I was born without complications, but if anyone has ever examined the process of “building” a baby, one would realize that it’s probably the biggest miracle of all that more babies aren’t born with complications. The amount of things that could go wrong are enormous. It seems just as likely that we would be born completely deformed and messed up as not. If anyone wants to argue with me the presence of a God, you just have to bring the view how many babies every year are born perfectly healthy. Unfortunately, it’s not these babies that people rave are miracles. It’s the babies that are born with problems, that just fell into the pool of children where something just went wrong, that when they survive and make it to adulthood, that people consider a “miracle.” I would have to say that this particular miracle is arguable by the fact that it is just as likely that something goes wrong, as that it doesn’t. We only recognize it as a miracle because we put more emphasis on one or the other.

Thus, my issue with miracles. Is it a miracle that someone regains sight? Well, what are the chances that they did vs. that they didn’t. If they hadn’t regained sight, would we have considered that a miracle? In any case, it was just the other possibility and for all we know, just as likely. Doctors can give you all the statistics they want. We consider surviving cancer a miracle because its a really good thing, but it’s just as likely that you die from it. No one considers that a miracle, but it’s just as likely.

In any case, it’s like flipping a coin. You can get either heads or tails. If you get heads, is that a miracle? Or getting tails is a miracle? No, it’s just something that happens. Things happen in life, they are just as likely as the event that they don’t happen. Miracles are just fabricated from our point of view.

Now, that’s my argument, solely for the sake of argument.

People like my mother give religion as a pillow, a comfort. She once shared with me that she would have a big problem believing that this is it, so that’s why she believe in God. Because she just can’t keep seeing all the horrible things in the world thinking that this is all there is.

Now, it’s for people like that, that I think religion is perfect for. It’s for those you want something good to believe in, to keep them sane, and safe in their heads, despite if it’s real or not. To me, that’s true faith.

But people will criticize saying that believing in something solely because you don’t want to believe in the alternative isn’t true faith. Well, what makes your faith better? Believing it because you are told to?

A chosen faith is better than a forced faith.

I on the other hand am perfectly alright with the notion that this is it. While this may depress some people, it just makes me want to live life to the absolute fullest. Never miss an adventure or an opportunity, because it just as likely that the world ends that day, that it doesn’t.

It does or it doesn’t. It’s all 50/50 to me.

To me, Religion should be nothing more than a comfort to keep you feeling better, while giving you very basic moral to live by. The 10 commandments? Scratch off the one about believing in other Gods and keeping the Sabbath, and you have a perfect base set of guidelines for life that really aren’t going to change with the ages. 8 solid commandants.

The Commandants about driving are a bunch of bullshit. The Catholic church just got hella bored and scribbled some shit down. I really don’t like the Catholic church. Nothing against catholics, just the church.

But what irks me most is when people take religion to such extremes that they let it play such a large role in other parts of their life. My cousin was with this girl for years, they are still really close, but because she is Mormon, he refuses to marry her. He doesn’t want to convert.

Bull fucking shit. What the hell does religion matter if you love the person. The Mormons have crazy rules (and beliefs) but you know what, that should not be a reason not to marry her. Do her feet smell? Does she hit you? Does she scream in her sleep? Those are better reason to me than “She’s Mormon.”

My dad told me that religion should never get in the way of who I want to be with. This is the same man that demands I marry a white man, but then again, I blame that on his work office. He’s been there waaaay too long.

But to sum it up, once again, Religion is something that should guide your life and help you to be a better person. I don’t care if it’s true or not, that doesn’t matter to me. I don’t care who is right, and who is wrong. If people can be good people, but not let religion decide who the like and don’t like, then they can have their miracles. If people could stop waging war based on the fact that they are right and everyone else is wrong, then I think religion itself could play an even bigger role in the world.

Besides, there are only two sure things in life. Death, and math.

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