RE: If god is real why go on living?
July 26, 2011 at 11:50 am
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2011 at 11:59 am by Judas BentHer.)
I once heard it said, religion is a word humans come up with so as to describe the unspeakable. And it does a very poor job.
Religions set up these lofty notions of what it means to be human and part of what that entails is to be pleasing to something superior to their condition, that expects them to surpass all that it means to be imperfect in the flesh while hoping not only that it's all true, as they bow and scrape hoping to obey and be approved by the invisible, but that they succeed in the venture.
It's a no win situation. While it keeps the devout subservient to the words that describe a particular religion, which was always authored by people, usually men. And it keeps the faithful confined in their conduct and thoughts,as they comport with the parameters of their chosen faith that sets such barriers because said religion affirms acknowledging one's self as fully human, with all that entails, is something that must be denied because it stands to be deemed wrong conduct by that unseen power that made all those traits in the human possible in the first place.
Religion is slavery. Self imposed slavery.
Just like the slave in literal bondage that fears slipping their shackles, so too are the religious because they are terrified both of the punishment for non-compliance to remaining incarcerated, as well as what will result after they're dead on the chance they didn't obey rightly in order to be rewarded for being in bondage all their days when they could feel and suffer that self-imposed state of confinement.
Is it any wonder the atheist, those who just by name alone indicate to the slave we are more liberated and free than they are, stands no chance of getting through to those who find their chains comforting, because they accept they are where they belong?
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Religions set up these lofty notions of what it means to be human and part of what that entails is to be pleasing to something superior to their condition, that expects them to surpass all that it means to be imperfect in the flesh while hoping not only that it's all true, as they bow and scrape hoping to obey and be approved by the invisible, but that they succeed in the venture.
It's a no win situation. While it keeps the devout subservient to the words that describe a particular religion, which was always authored by people, usually men. And it keeps the faithful confined in their conduct and thoughts,as they comport with the parameters of their chosen faith that sets such barriers because said religion affirms acknowledging one's self as fully human, with all that entails, is something that must be denied because it stands to be deemed wrong conduct by that unseen power that made all those traits in the human possible in the first place.
Religion is slavery. Self imposed slavery.
Just like the slave in literal bondage that fears slipping their shackles, so too are the religious because they are terrified both of the punishment for non-compliance to remaining incarcerated, as well as what will result after they're dead on the chance they didn't obey rightly in order to be rewarded for being in bondage all their days when they could feel and suffer that self-imposed state of confinement.
Is it any wonder the atheist, those who just by name alone indicate to the slave we are more liberated and free than they are, stands no chance of getting through to those who find their chains comforting, because they accept they are where they belong?
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"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."
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