Picture this...a 45 year old woman walks up to you on christmas eve and tells you she can't wait to go to sleep because santa is coming...or how about a 30 year old man excited because the easter bunny left him a bunch of cadbury creme eggs...you'd think they're crazy right? you would think they're childish...immature....or even that they may have a mental illness...you'd look at them in shock that they still believe in such childhood tales as santa and the easter bunny and the tooth fairy...
now picture this...a 40 year old man talks about how God saved him from a car accident. Or a 20 year old woman Thanks God for her digital camera still being at the bar from the night before...you don't look at them like they're crazy. You don't think they're childish or immature...you don't even budge..why?
Why is it that things like santa claus and leprechauns are SO unbelievable, but things like God and Jesus are perfectly acceptable? Can anyone answer that question for me?
At least characters like that have a purpose...they have one or 2 set things they do...santa brings presents and goes down chimneys. The easter bunny brings you eggs and goodies...the leprechaun protects his pot of gold in case you DO make it to the end of the rainbow and the tooth fairy gives you money for your lost teeth..hell, even the fucking boogie man has a purpose; to scare the fuck out of you.
But god...i mean...what is really his purpose? I mean people pray to him, talk to him, and thank him for the craziest things. Your team scores a touchdown? Thank god. The sun came out after a rainstorm? Thank god. It's friday!? Thank god....what the fuck is that?
we're trained as children to "grow out" of things...once you reach a certain age, if you believe in santa, you're told to grow up. If you still play with toys, you're told to grow up...but if you still believe in Jesus, that's perfectly acceptable....so you're telling me it's completely untrue and impossible for a fat man to bring presents to billions of people in one night, but it's TOTALLY POSSIBLE that some bearded dude in a robe can turn water into wine, and can feed 500 people with a couple fish and some stale fuckin bread!? BUT THAT'S OK TO BELIEVE!?
To me, believing in the Bible...jesus..."god"...it's all just a childhood story you never grew out of. See...you chose not to believe in santa because you were old enough to know better...you started making your own opinions and realizing things...but you never grew out of your religious beliefs...you still believe that when you die you're going to enter some majestic palace in the sky...and you're going to float on a cloud with Jimi Hendrix for all eternity...You believe that when you put your hands together and talk to yourself, that some mystical figure in space is listening, and is going to answer all your requests...but SANTA is bullshit.
I for one, am SO SICK of hearing people say things like "they're in a better place now" or "it was their time" or "it was god's will" when someone dies. NO. they died because they're human. We all die at one point or another. If someone you know died in a plane crash, don't blame god, blame whatever the actual reason was for the mishap. It honestly boggles my mind to no end when i hear people talk about religion and praying and god...like, LISTEN TO YOURSELVES. You people will deny every shred of proof given to you to explain that we EVOLVED, in favour of believing that we were created, and everything was the doing of one spiritual being. THINK ABOUT THAT. Some...fucking apparition floating in the depths of space decided to just create shit one day??
"Hey...fuck, i'm bored...just floating out here...i'm gonna build a planet, and i'm going to stock it with people just so i can torture them for eternity! Yep!! and i'm going to give each one of them a special way to talk to me, and now i'll be able to hear everything they say!! I'm gonna create all sorts of shit!! Fuck, i'll even create light and dark! shit!! look at me go!! here's some water bitches!! What's this thing? i don't fuckin know but i'm gonna call it a chicken!"
LIKE, LISTEN TO YOURSELVES!! You're all cowards. You're all too afraid to take blame and to take responsibility for our actions as humans...instead you blame everything on a fucking mythical creature. War? god's fault. Death? God's fault. Disease? God's fault.... Oh shit, you got cancer? Fuck, don't blame all the cigarettes you inhaled for 45 years, blame God! It's his fault!! oh no...you knocked up your white trash girlfriend at 14? Fuck...don't blame your lack of protection or judgment, blame god! you people are ridiculous.
From this day on, if it's ok for you jackasses to believe in God, Jesus, his immaculate birth, and all the other bullshit in the bible, then I'm going to fully believe in Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny, Beetlejuice and that dog urine can cure cancer. And if ANY of you say a fucking thing to me, I am going to ask you for just one...tiny..piece of proof that your beliefs are in something even remotely factual.
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Disclaimer: I'm not religious in any way, shape, or form and I'm definitely not trying to start an argument.. I just dig this sort of discussion and hope you can pull something positive from it. :)
I feel your emotion towards this topic is a bit displaced. I am not saying "I'm right, you're wrong" by any means, but I read your entry twice and really think that you should consider getting on a different train of thought that would be more productive.
If someone believes in God and lives their life to that standard, why is there anything wrong with that? If people who live their lives based on their faith are generally folk who do whatever they can to be good people, why should we care how people live their lives if they are doing no harm? We all have our reasons for doing what we believe is right, so why judge them if they do it for God?
I'm sure that for each and every Atheist who scoffs at religious beliefs and supports Darwin's theory there many times more men and women of faith who do not understand how people could NOT believe in the works of their God. Things that makes sense to one person may not make sense to another, and that is how everything works in life. But when you live your life believing someone else is wrong about matters of opinion/personal preference such has faith, orientation, or lifestyle preferences, you are basically denying them the right to believe what they wish... which makes you no better than those who would deem someone a "sinner" for not practicing, or for believing in a different faith. We live in a time now where practicing different faiths is acceptable within our culture, and it is even written in the Canadian Charter that everyone is entitled to the freedom of conscience and religion.
I hope you understand that I didn't take the time to write all this out in vain... I just felt that there was a lot of anger in this post and that perhaps you would benefit from hearing things from another perspective. I used to feel the same way as you do now.. but then I realized that such emotion only separates and divides us as humans when we really should be putting that effort into working together and helping each other out.
See ya Wednesday,
-Victoria
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