My thoughts on religion.
agnostic one who believes the existence of God cannot be proved or disproved
atheist one who assumes there are no gods or divinities but will accept the possibility should extraordinary evidence occurExamples
An agnostic may participate in organized religion… just in case.Some Marxists were atheists who believed that organized religion encouraged oppressed peoples to endure their hard lives in order to be rewarded after death in heaven.
Who would have thought that I’d agree with a Marxists Atheist. LOL Yes…I don’t consider myself an Atheist, but I do think that religion exists to keep people in line. I also think it exists so that people can have something to live by. We don’t want to walk around with no idea why we’re here! It’s confusing. I think everything happens for a reason and I believe in God. AND I believe in the “Butterfly Effect” and/or Chaos Theory (they are not exactly the same). I don’t take it all LITERALLY though.
“It has been said something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.”
We use religion to explain what we can’t explain already. That’s like “back in the day” when people would get sick and it would be blamed on the anger of the “GODS” or because someone did something bad. Now we call it cancer/flu/tuberculosis/or whatever.
I can understand that though. When I lost my job and had to move back to Texas, I was like “God…why is this happening to me?” Two days later I found out my grandma had cancer. She died 5 months later. Now I’m in Las Vegas starting over with a job in a career field I had always wanted to be in.
I believe, I just don’t believe EVERYTHING people try to tell me about religion. I don’t believe everything they tell me I should believe. Would you believe me if I said, “If you don’t finish that hot dog right now, God is going to strike you down”? Probably not. Now if it said something similar in the Bible, you might believe it. BUT WHY?
Like this “conversation” I had on Facebook today:
My Cousin: In the kitchen doin a lil sumthing. Were having pork chops smoothered in onions and gravy,rice and stewed cabbage and of course sum corn bread…. Jus talkin bout it is makin me hungry…. (LOL)
Me: Hello! You need to make me a plate!
My Cousin: I got u! When r u coming to visit?
Me: LOL Probably not until next summer. But you can make pork chops smothered in onions and gravy year round. I could make them too, but my current financial situation prohibits anything besides ramen noodles, rice, and sandwiches. haha I will live vicariously through your posts until further notice.
My Cousin: Ur crazy girl….know ur always welcome to come
Troll: leviticus 11:7-8, isaiah 66:15-17
Me: LOL You are trying to say that we’re gonna go to hell for eating pork?
Troll: No sis if you dont stop eating pork yes this is the penalty judgement from GOD so I am just trying to warn you. So now that you know are you going to stop eating pork crab lobster shrimp etc all the abominations of the lord
Me: LOL I hope you realize that it’s not always your place to push your religious beliefs on others. Actually, it’s kind of rude. What if my religion requires me to eat pork? Don’t answer that. I’m a classy girl and I’m not going to start anything. I just don’t think it’s fair for you to throw that in there like that. You do you and we’ll do us. Whether or not I participate in any “abomination of the lord” is not really your concern. (Sorry Cuzo. I couldn’t just let that slide. Maybe I’m not as classy as I’d like to be. :/ I’m leaving now. lol)
Yeah…I probably should have kept that last one to myself, WHATEVER! I didn’t appreciate him jumping into our conversation about DINNER with his bible verses. I hate when people do that!
That’s what I’m getting at though. He believes in that and it’s FINE, but I obviously don’t! My cousin obviously doesn’t either. Or she just chooses to ignore it and eat her smothered pork chops anyway. Either way…it was uncalled for. Nobody asked for his religious input. I don’t jump in his conversations and say “Well, I’m Buddhist and I believe….zyx!”
I don’t think you should pick and chose what you wanna believe. I mean, I don’t believe a HUGE part of the bible. I believe in God. I don’t really believe any of that other stuff.
Haha. Sorry. That guy kind of set me off and I can’t even remember what else I was going to say. But if you didn’t know…now you now.
