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I personally find the belief in a god.. let alone the practice of religion.. to be quite ridiculous. I look at everything that happens in every-day life and I just cannot envision or recognize any force in play other than the ones I learned about in physics, psychology and sociology. There is no other factor that makes me go "hmm" nor is there any voice in my head that I do not attribute to my own self. The very same things that happen to me also happen to people of faith, so what's the deal?
Basically, I'm saying that our physical world is obviously (to me) completely untouched by 'godly' forces. It's all science. The true question to ask me is, "Is there an afterlife?" To which I would respond, "No."
The requirement to get into heaven, for many of these faiths is simply "to have faith and to do good by it." I don't know.. maybe I'm hard to impress, but those guidelines are fairly .. well.. I don't know how to explain it. When I imagine an all-powerful being who created an entire world and let his little creatures runamok, I don't imagine him REQUIRING his creatures to all act like sheep. Personally, if I created my own little world, I'd let my lil' fellas do whatever the fuck they wanted and I would just enjoy watching the drama that developed. If I wanted them to hang out with me after they died, I'd probably just choose the cool guys with personality, not the uptight stone-faced pious nuts.
I think about this and I come to the realization that the rules of organized religion were devised to control people. There just isn't any other way about it.
So, why is the belief in God even necessary? Hmm.. I wont get into that 'cause that's the subject of the next installment of the Book of Halism. The basic message I wanna get across is... if there IS a God, I'm sure he'd be fine if you were just an overall cool, nice person who tried to make the world a better place. I mean, if God WAS as stuck up, self-absorbed and 'holy' as the churches make him out to be, I wouldn't wanna even nod my head to him, let alone kneel and praise him.
Cliff Notes: There is no god. Just be a good person and everything will turn out fine either way.
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