Bow Down Before the One you Serve
There’s a thought I had the other day about religion. Before I tell you what it is I suppose I should preface this thought by saying that I do believe in a spiritual existence of some kind. That is, I think there is more to existing than what we think we know. All religions are aware of and based upon this spiritual essence. They call it god, with a capital g.
Those of you who know me know that I’m not the biggest fan of most religions, but needless to say I believe they all are based upon something real (human ignorance simply twists that real feeling and turns it into violence, hate, and closed-mindedness). But since all religions are based upon something real, something we can all feel, members of those religions believe in them because they have really been touched by them. Thus people believe that "their god" is the only god, failing to realize that we all have the same god. And when they teach their children about their religion and "their god," the children believe it too because, again, it is real.
So if all beliefs are valid and true, the problems spring up from the order we try to build up around them. The problem begins when people spell god with a capital g, when they try to posses god, when they try to define right and wrong concretely. Nothing is black and white, and no one owns god. Once we realize that we all believe in the same thing, and tear down the walls between us, then we will be one step closer to a better world.
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The problem is complexity; couple that with our tendency to take the easy route and look at outside sources for our answers and you have religion.
The thing we all feel is the human soul, life itself. That is the most basic thing. It doesn’t need a religion. It doesn’t need anyone but itself. This can be an amazingly hard thing to realize fully. No human soul without outside influence desires to truly destroy itself. We all want to be happy. Looking to a god or another person isn’t the way to do it.
Comment by Nathan — On 06-29-05 at 12:50 am
the more you talk about god the less he/she/it exists. god cannot be put in a box,
but we will always try to do this. here is a jean baudrillard quote:
“God knows that if he were to show himself, he would cease to exist. He himself has never
claimed to exist. He allows himself to be sensed only so that the problem of his existence
may be posed. By contrast, advertising is much too visible and makes much too much play of its existence to be what it claims to be – namely, effective.
There is no more evidence of the effectiveness of advertising than of the existence of God.”
Advertising is a practise that I think was started by the Church(tm) which was the first
major money making brand with it’s own slogans.
Comment by ben — On 07-02-05 at 8:11 am