"...Those parrots talk about everything. Politics, movies, fashion. Everything but religion. It's rude to talk about religion. You never know who you're gonna offend"
Edward Bloom from Tim Burton's Big Fish (2003) is absolutely correct. But if then again I'm a teenager. I'm used to having people pissed off at me >.<
There is something about those social sites such as MySpace and Facebook that always offer you to publish your religious views. I want to know, how many of you actually look at your friend's "religious views" tab? If you just got a friend request is that the first thing you do, to go the the person's profile and check out her religious views? What about if you saw the person is from your area and has "Buddhism" as a religious view, would you believe her? ...I'm just saying.
We are actually living in a time when religion has ceased to be cool. So when I feel like chattin' and find out that a person's official religious view is "Catholic" something in my head rings an alarming bell and I probably won't end up chatting with that person. When you are in a social network such as Myspace I don't think it is considered kewl to be catholic or jewish. Am I right or is this just me?
But just to REALLY offend someone, I am going to keep talking about religion! And note that this is the first personal blog on this site. You see there are two of us here writing these things and you can identify the writer of each blog be the "42% B" or "42% V" on the bottom of a blog such as this one.
Hello, I am 42% B, and I am deist. "Deist" means that I believe in a God outside his creation. That is, I find the universe too insanely awesome to not have some kind of God, but I also believe that since the creation of this massive chain reaction God has left everything pretty much untouched. "Það er eins og að segja að Guð hafi skapað tilviljunina."
I was discussing God and deism with a friend of mine the other day, and when I had explained what I just explained to you she replied "So, God is Big Bang?". Well, yes, and no. When I originally thought about deism is simply thought "The world is too beautiful not to have a creator". I simply cannot believe that something like flowers and the connection they have with the animal life around them exists merely because of chance and science.
-"Well, then I don't get the point of calling him God to begin with, since in deism he only created existence and then hasn't touched it since. It is just the Big Bang Theory with an extension," she replied. I simply said that God is a better word then Big Bang Theory, and she said that believing The Big Bang Theory and being deist is practically the same thing, but Deism might be a bit more... poetic. I actually had to agree.
Originally she was the same as me, for her the world was so beautiful that there just HAD to be a God. Then she learned about the hurricanes and pedophiles that lock their daughters in a basement, and lost faith... understandably...
I wish I knew more about the philosophies of different religions, it would make a very interesting blog. For me I feel like the words of Eddie Izzard are the best to describe religions: "I don't believe that religions are religions. No, I believe they are philosophies with some good ideas and some fucking weird ones"
Maybe I'll do some reasearch sometime... maybe...
Well, it's time for school. Smell ya later!
-B
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Now.. I wouldn't dig too deep into "research". Just collect a few facts, that you find fitting or believable, and ponder. The paths we tread by ourselves are usually easier to trace back and/or shift their direction towards a new thought, or even stray off the originally set path to go hunting on a hunch.. Getting sidetracked is not exactly a bad thing when you don't even know the final destination. ;Þ
ReplyDeleteI truly feel sorry for your friend and though I can understand how she feels, I can't agree on that way of thinking. It makes it seem as if the whole thing was more the fault of some guardian in the sky, who's slacking off at his duties, than the disgusting human being that did the deed.
I don't think "God's" role in existence goes beyond the beginning.. but then again, should it? :)
I am an atheist, and still the world is beautiful and magnificent to me. saying everything is beautiful because it was created is almost the same argument as "the world is beautiful because it wasn't created". we perceive beauty differently, so saying some one object or person is beautiful is merely an opinion not a fact :) and how things work together is evolution. take for instance the human eye, some say that the eye is way too complex and wonderful to have just evolved, and what did it evolve from, well the eye is like a camera, and to understand how the eye works you must first know how a camera works, we capture light and form an image which is then analyzed in our brain, but scientists believe that the early forms of eyes could only know if there was light or not and then later the eye evolved to a state were it would know if there was light and where it was coming from.. etc
ReplyDeleteso my theory is simple, life is beautiful and the glory of evolution is much more fascinating and awesome then simply saying a wizard did it :P
some say you can't be a good person without god for he and his book give the moral value of life. so what? all atheists are murderers and rapists? haha no not at all, for example the prison statistics show that less then 1% of all inmates are atheistic or without a god. and also if we only derive morality from religion why do piranhas not eat each other? they don't have religion and still they have that morality.
peace out :)