2012-02-20, 04:26 AM
Religion affects me a lot in real life, but isn't ingrained in any of my beliefs. My mother expects me to take on Christian activities five times a week: two days for community service at the church, one day for a small group at an elder's house, one day at our own house for my mother's bible studies, and one day for Sunday sermon.
Attempting to postulate the beginning of the world is effort that is virtually fruitless, as there is no definitive answer that can be drawn in black and white when it comes to the present. I find that the time is better off studying more pragmatic and practical issues that have current prevalence.
I don't identify with the Christian faith and find many elements of it to be absurd, such as the concept of a father murdering his own son to show the act of compassion upon other strangers. I believe that people believing they can identify with a transcendental entity that is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-present is an act of conceit and arrogance. Christians fundamentally believe that they are nothing, yet they can have a personal relationship with an invincible power they consistently go against since it's in their nature to pathetically fail and be vile.
Modern Christian worship music is hilariously bad. It's Bruno Mars with God instead of girl in it. The songs mostly focus on repetition in order to encourage participation, but get tiring because the music is intellectually tuned down due to it being nothing more than a glorified mass chanting. The actual words people recite consist of loving Jesus forever and wanting to be a loyal servant for eternity. Most of these words spoken though aren't meant at face value, but the hypocrisy is lost on Christians since it is done in mass and communal herding leads to promotion of such behavior.
There are many things wrong with Christianity and a number of its denominations. As someone who tried to hold on to his Christianity as a jaded pessimist, I eventually gave up trying to rationalize all the contradictions with the belief that God was fundamentally sadistic or apathetic with respect to his own earthly creations. There is no justification for the amount of suffering that goes on in the world if there is a ruler who can fix it. There is no point in worshiping or speculating the existence of an entity that is all-powerful and fails to address the chronic and constant worldwide suffering that happens in the world today. It leads to the immediate conclusion that the entity is either detached from humans or enjoys seeing the decay of our resources and the conflicts that occur between us as people.
Attempting to postulate the beginning of the world is effort that is virtually fruitless, as there is no definitive answer that can be drawn in black and white when it comes to the present. I find that the time is better off studying more pragmatic and practical issues that have current prevalence.
I don't identify with the Christian faith and find many elements of it to be absurd, such as the concept of a father murdering his own son to show the act of compassion upon other strangers. I believe that people believing they can identify with a transcendental entity that is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-present is an act of conceit and arrogance. Christians fundamentally believe that they are nothing, yet they can have a personal relationship with an invincible power they consistently go against since it's in their nature to pathetically fail and be vile.
Modern Christian worship music is hilariously bad. It's Bruno Mars with God instead of girl in it. The songs mostly focus on repetition in order to encourage participation, but get tiring because the music is intellectually tuned down due to it being nothing more than a glorified mass chanting. The actual words people recite consist of loving Jesus forever and wanting to be a loyal servant for eternity. Most of these words spoken though aren't meant at face value, but the hypocrisy is lost on Christians since it is done in mass and communal herding leads to promotion of such behavior.
There are many things wrong with Christianity and a number of its denominations. As someone who tried to hold on to his Christianity as a jaded pessimist, I eventually gave up trying to rationalize all the contradictions with the belief that God was fundamentally sadistic or apathetic with respect to his own earthly creations. There is no justification for the amount of suffering that goes on in the world if there is a ruler who can fix it. There is no point in worshiping or speculating the existence of an entity that is all-powerful and fails to address the chronic and constant worldwide suffering that happens in the world today. It leads to the immediate conclusion that the entity is either detached from humans or enjoys seeing the decay of our resources and the conflicts that occur between us as people.