My Own Religion

I'm not religious in the sense that I don't follow any of the established faiths.

My mother and father were not religious. As far as I know, my grandparents were not religious either, except for my mother's mother, who was a Bhuddist.

But I do have my own religious beliefs.

I call it "religion" because that's essentially what any belief is, as long as you practice what you believe.

I believe there is an afterlife. I say this because I don't believe that life is just DNA and cellular structures. Life is a force. It's what makes our souls. If you believe in souls, then you probably believe that souls are separate from bodies.

I don't necessarily believe that souls go to Heaven or Hell. I'm not sure what happens to our souls when our bodies die. I don't have a belief for that one.

I believe that if anyone judges us, it's ourselves. We know what's right and wrong, based on our interpretation of what the public thinks. If the public says that homosexuality is immoral, then anyone doing it would have it weigh on their minds to some degree or another. Except today, the public thinks differently about homosexuality than 50 years ago. So, people judge themselves much differently today than long ago.

If there is something that's making you feel guilty, or just bearing down on your conscience, it's going to make you do things. It might make you tell lies, or hide the truth, act defensive, or avoid something altogether.

I tend to believe that when you die, the things that weigh on your conscience, and to what degree they weigh, influences what happens to your soul. It's kinda like God judging you, except you're judging yourself. I think that's where the Catholic "confession" comes from. If you confess your sins, you're saved. In my case, it's more about clearing your conscience.

So throughout life, I try to keep my conscience clear. You can see the parallels of that with Christianity. I grew up in a Christian society, though I am not Christian. But you could say that I've been influenced.

I get a big laugh out of the "big bang" theorists. There are people who call themselves "scientists", who claim that the Universe was created from a "Big Bang". And from that, stars and planets formed, and from the stardust, and the radiant gases, came life. Except this hasn't actually been proven yet.

I mean, no one has actually recorded the Big Bang on video, or in photos. They haven't recorded it in any form at all. In fact, there isn't even conclusive evidence. There is only evidence that suggests it. So then, why is the "Big Bang" considered to be science? Why isn't a religion?

In fact, the Big Bang theory is actually that, a religion. It's a belief, designed to explain where we all came from. Is that really what religions are, theories to explain where we came from?

And the Big Bang theory has its wackos who stand up on pulpits and preach the gospel, that we're all just cellular bodies, made up of gases, and that any talk of Christianity is unconstitutional. Yeah well, they sound just like the preachers and the priests, who spout out their gospel too.

You see, it's all a fucking religion. Whether God created the Universe, or whether the Big Bang created the Universe, it's all beliefs, with no proof, designed to explain where we came from.

Therefore, since we don't know where we came from, and we don't know where we're going, we might as well just follow that old phrase, "Do unto others, as others would do unto you". And, pack a gun just in case.

Labels: Religion

Posted:   Wednesday, August 15, 2007