This is not the Moral Olympics.
Sometimes I wonder who the hell these
people are competing with?
To be better than everyone else is not
the point.
To be the best version of you…now that
sounds more authentic.
Call me what you want, bestow me with
any label you choose. Agnostic. Heathen. Pagan. Religiously misguided. New-age
hippy. Sun-worshipper. It’s cool, really. Most times I answer with agnostic
when people ask me and most times it’s the hyper-devout that bother to ask.
“Is that like Christian?”......<sigh>
I’m married to a militant atheist and I
have absolutely no problem with this. And just because my idea of god is extremely obscure and more
convoluted than the terms and conditions of your mortgage agreement, doesn’t
make it less of worthy adversary in the age-old realm of whether a higher power
exists or not. Moth never bashes my beliefs, he also doesn’t go around the
neighbourhood telling hapless kids, that Jesus to him is just as plausible as
zombies…hence Zombie Jesus, thus destroying their (ingrained/ predetermined) carefully
constructed religious beliefs.
Unfortunately, I can’t say that when the situation is reversed that the
same holds true. The high and mighty will smell you from a mile away. And given half
the chance, will make any atheist wish he believed in a merciful god that would
strike him down on the spot, when faced with religious lectures filled with
dogma.
What you believe in is undoubtedly up to
your own discretion, but an orange is an orange is an orange. This is where
science comes along. If you have a belief/theory for it to be true you have to
go through due process and prove it to be so... substantiated by evidence. Once
achieved, your theory is acknowledged to be true unless disproven. Sounds
reasonable to me. There’s been increased hype about the Large Hydron Collider
and with it, it’s new discovery of the Higgs boson or the God Particle, but how
many people really understand this latest discovery paving the way to understanding
the universe before they totally discredit it?
Fuck me, a layman usually doesn’t
encounter theorised particle physics in everyday conversation but it doesn’t
harm anyone to educate themselves. Please allow my most likely poor attempt to do
so. The Higgs boson is the energy field that gives all the other particles a
mass. It was identified during experiments conducted by CERN (Da Vinci code much?) simulating the same environment that occurred during the Big Bang thus
going some ways into explaining why gravity exists and supposedly sketching a
clearer picture regarding the origins of the universe. What does this mean for
religion? Are the gatekeepers of the spiritual world up in arms? I don’t know…most
likely?
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Do I care? Not sufficiently, no.
When people use religion (race or even
class for that matter) as yard stick to determine and most often times prove
their superiority over someone else, I’m not available to participate. I doubt any deity works on a podium system, so
why should we assume that as believers and non-believers that that’s the way we should operate
on this physical plane. When people are so starkly categorised, we promote the
subjugation of individuals, attaching an unwarranted and counterfeit value to
them. When this happens; life becomes nothing more than a ledger of profit and
loss…people become nothing more than pluses and minuses on some moral balance
sheet. And at the end of the day, these theistic
accountants become as morally bankrupt as those supposed sinners.
Contrary to popular belief, this is not a competition. Believe in whatever you goddamn want. If you think that there is one clear winner at the end of this Race of Faiths...I fear we may have missed the point. For all we know, we are just talking monkeys, on an organic spaceship hurtling throughout space...which is just as plausible as any theocratic belief system.
Sound logic is...SOUND.
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