Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Hmm, i think i can fully understand why people believe in their religions. When you believe something up there is helping you, you experience what you trust to be help, and this reinforces your belief even more. Although there maybe other passages, other ideas within the religion that your inner self might not agree, the ideas you agree on push you to believe in the "whole package".
And this is why, i think pro-religion and anti-religion arguments are not on the same wavelength as one another. A belief in christianity is strongly based on one's personal experiences that reinforces his beliefs. Logical arguments are simply "boosters" for one's faith, though if one's faith is so strong, these boosters would seem meaningless. On the other hand, a disbelief in christianity easily means you rule out any "experiences' with a possible god as something else, something that, to you, cannot be qualified as god's work. Logical arguments are meant to tear down Christian faith on the plane of logic, but cannot tear it down on the planes of experience.
However objective i'd like to be when experimenting with Christianity months ago, the point is that religion is something that isn't objective. I believe it is subjective, that if you believe in it, events will simply bolster your belief, and if you don't, it will take an extraodinary event, an incredible, completely logic-defying event to happen, to convince you. That's why i think my experiment wasn't successful in helping me determine objectively whether christianity or atheism was the "right thing". You simply couldn't do that. But its only because i even attempted the experiment that i now understand why it failed. And that's enlightening (:
The problem i see with religion is that it comes as a whole package. You take what you like, and take what you don't like. Maybe, just maybe, some part of it is right, but some other part of it is wrong. But you take it all the same. I don't like this way of doing things, but that doesn't mean its wrong though (: I don't like time management, but it sure helps a damn lot! However, due to its whole-packaged nature, it definitely restricts your limit of imagination and thinking. Just thinking about the possibility that god does not exist could possibly be viewed as a sin already.
But i think, for most people, believing in religion definitely helps them. Religion makes them dare to take risks, because God is there to back you up! It gives you belief that you CAN and WILL fight off cancer because miracle man is with you. Unfortunately, with the good comes the bad. Homosexuality is BURNNNNN, which i think isn't very fair because its no one's fault they were born to be so. Bad cause you can't marry a fricking non-christian, even if he is as enlightened as Ghandhi. But more so than not, the good overwhelms the bad.
But what if the good can be gotten in some other way? I don't believe in God, but dare to take risks, i'm able to feel that there are people there who will always help me in my times of needs. Then, the bad is simply...too bad. I find the bad about religion too bad for me. Something tells me declaring hell(literally) on people who can't control their homosexuality is wrong. Something tells me the New Testament is just a poor excuse for the Old Testament, a change that the heads of Christianity realised they had to make. Something tells me there's something wrong with creating the conscience in a person, and then judging him for the conscience he displays in his life. Something tells me i'm obviously biased against religion and simply trying to propogate my beliefs, BUT THAT MAY NOT BE WRONG (:
What a fucking chim post!
silverletal [Simple and Clean] 7:56 AM
