Wow this discussion of religion "Religion" is pretty vigorous, and it's a
difficult arguement for anyone to win,
I had to go to church and sunday school as a kid, it was fun in
the winter, but once the Sun came out I started "Mooching off" I was 8 years
old and I decided I would rather be running around in the fields and climbing
trees, my mother tried to get tough, but I never went to church again.
I always seem to question what I'm told, and as I have grown
older I feel, enjoying your life, and living a good life, being a good human
being is what matters, but the human race seems compelled to put labels on
themselves or others, tall, short, fat, thin, black, white, Christian,
Muslim, the list is endless and pointless. The labels highlight a
difference, and difference so often means conflict, why can't people be happy
to be alive.
Put kids of any race or creed together and they will accept any
difference, prejudice, religous or political, whatever, has to be learned,
and sadly adults continue to poison young minds.
If you believe in God I can't be critical, I may even envy you, I
believe something lives on after you die, even if it's just your memory in
those you leave behind, but I have never encountered a situation where I have
felt I must believe.
Forgive me, but, following September 11th so many survivors were
making comments, thanking God that they survived, but if He /She is so all
powerful, and if this is a Our God (Christian) v Their God (Muslim) contest
then I'm sorry but they came a poor second and third on that day, the winners
on that day were those people who decided that belonging to the human race
comes first and foremost, people proffessional and civilian, who without a
thought for their own families, their own worth, put their lives on the line
to save others. Labels disappeared that day, but sadly some people are bound
to put them back, and I'm sorry I can't see how God can be thanked, when
people so desperate to live, were raining down from the sky.
My eyes are full of tears writing that, what a painful day that
was, but why do we give God all the credit, when we should be thanking each
other. To say God wanted them to die to be with him in Heaven is just a cop
out, I'll live my life as a good human being, and if it's true that unless I
accept God into my life, I will not be allowed into heaven when I die, then
quite frankly I don't want to go, if he were working for a company he would
have been fired by now. Power and Money corrupt, where are there poor
churches??
Hope this doesn't offend anyone Fred
