Sunday, November 6, 2011

Important religion / philosophy question?

Ok, a lot of people nowadays annoy me because they don't keep an open mind. I consider my self a Christian and i believe in God and everything, but people act like God is some perfect guy up there and that we have to pray constantly for forgiveness for even the most minor sins. Why is God perfect? I don't believe he is because he created an imperfect world, but it's not like that's a bad thing, in fact it's a WONDERFUL thing. If God were perfect, he would have made the world perfect. Every object you see would be perfectly symmetrical, you would only listen to one kind of music, everyone would look the same, or even if I'm invisioning it the wrong way, we still would not recognize the world and not enjoy it as much as we do now. Now, look at something like a tree. It's not symmetrical, it's branches are scraggly and bent, it's texture is rough and hard, but do you hate trees for their imperfection? No, the very design of a tree is extremely imperfect, but it's beautiful isn't it? And it's part of this world! This imperfect world that we take for granted so much. I'm not saying we SHOULDN'T worship God, but people are just having the wrong view about this, it's almost degrading to our entire human species to say we are sinners and should beg for forgiveness to God. We shouldn't waste our lives consuming ourselves in God and ONLY God. He would want us to live our lives for US and for those we love, and thank him for this glorious opportunity for life he has given us, our imperfect lives, but we find perfection in imperfection. People shouldn't go around thinking that God is the answer to everything and that we are all horrible sinners. For instance, why are some people vegetarians? Because they think it's wrong to eat other animals. But animals eat other animals in nature. Do you think God made animals the way they are just so he could send them to hell? I don't think so. Plus, imagine the vast universe, we are an infinitely small speck in the entire universe, and people don't realize often enough that our lives are virtually meaningless to the rest of the universe since we are such a small entity inside a much larger one, but God wouldn't have just put us here, a small needle in a mammoth haystack, for the heck of it, we are all here for a reason, and we should go throughout our day knowing that, and live to figure out why we are here rather than wasting our time asking God to forgive us for tiny little sins when in the vast universe, it does not matter. We are all part of the struggle to discover what all the universe is meant to achieve, and our sins are just experiences to learn from in future on our journey of discovery. That's where the phrase, "everything happens for a reason" comes into play. That it my belief, what is yours? Do you agree or disagree? Tell me your thoughts.

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