Religion

Religion

For my own benefit I need to type my thoughts out and make a sense of what religion is. At this point of my life, I have fairly certain in my head that religion and everything that goes along with religion, including god (OMG DON’T USE GOD’S NAME IN VEIN), are simply made up. I’m not just talking out my ass and saying shit, I have many concerns with all that goes into religion.

                   To begin, if religion and God is real, then why are there so many entirely different, conflicting religions? If I’m a boy in a strict, obey my parents or else, family and they raise me to be Muslim, then I have no choice but to be Muslim. Similarly, if I’m a boy in the same kind of family, but they raise me to be Catholic, then I will have no choice but to be catholic. Now here’s where I have a problem. If religion and everything that goes along with it were indeed true, then why would there be such disagreement of the methods, laws, and figures associated with it. Why would the true deity allow for his creations to be so misguided? The two different boys that I mentioned (1 is catholic and 1 is Muslim) practice completely different religions, but they had absolutely no choice, no say, no possibility to practice any other religion. Certain religions mention that those who do not follow the correct path or practice will go to hell and what not. Now wait a second, you’re trying to tell me that the deity out there is going to allow for both these innocent children to be raised and fed two completely different ideologies on how they should live life and when the time comes, the one who was taught the correct religion from his parents is going to go to heaven and the other one is going to go to hell. C’mon now, that doesn’t make any sense, does it?

                  I’m just going to throw this out there so I don’t forget to mention it because it’s the most obvious doubt about religion. There’s absolutely no form of proof of the existence of any unrealistic occurrences mentioned in religious documents or just the shear presence of God or any other deity described in religion. This is certainly a concern for me because part of believing, in my opinion, is the ability to validate your belief with 1 of your 5 senses. If I can’t touch, hear, see, smell, or taste something, it’s going to be difficult for me to truly believe in its existence. If you tell me from birth that I just have to believe that something exists and I’ll have to worship it and devote myself to it unconditionally, no questions asks, I’m going to have a bit of a problem keeping my faith. I mean everyone used to think the world was flat, and we know now that the world is clearly spherical and the idea of a flat earth is just ridiculous. If no thought and pure faith was instilled in that ideal, then we would all still believe that the world is flat. For some reason, we have a reluctance to question religion, while we find it quite easy to question everything else in our lives. This is quite peculiar to me because religion was probably one of the oldest belief sets among humans and society, and what we have seen throughout the course of the history, is that most of humanistic beliefs from that long ago have either been disproved or updated. Religion has for the most part, remained in its entirety and has refrained from being disproved or updated. It comes down to that singular concept of faith, it allows religion to be unquestioned and acknowledged as ultimately and forever true. If you want to correct what I said about religion staying in its entirety then fine, but that simply means that religion has been revised which would be a clear sign of an inconsistent ideology that is not worthy of unconditional faith.

                  I just had to write this out to see if it would change my opinion on religion or if it would spark some kind of deity appearance right here, right now. Unfortunately, neither of those things occurred. I stated some stuff that was flowing in and out of my thoughts and there is definitely much more for me to say, but I’m good for now because I’m tired as fuck, its 5:28 A.M. and I should probably be sleeping. That being said, I hope you enjoy this excerpt about my criticism of religion, and God Bless you all!