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Originally Posted by Hazel Glitter
I am struggling with the issue of religion. Everyone around me believes in God yet I feel as though they are depended upon God to solve all their problems in life. There is someone I work with that is so religious that they pray for things instead of actually doing them. I take a more realistic stance in the fact that if it needs to be done than do it. I feel like a total outcast that I am not "religious". That does not make me a bad person though. I feel trapped and pressured to believe in God.
The other day I was sitting at my desk looking for books to makeover my life (organizing the house, financially, everything). A co-worker leans over and says to me "You know, I got a book that will help you solve all that. The Bible." I don't mean to sound like a butt here, but how the heck is the Bible and God going to help me learn how to organize my closet the best?!
Sorry for venting on your post  |
I had a rather lengthy response to this initially, but quite honestly it's been said before by men and women much more intelligent than myself. If it's failed to change the world, I'm not going to do any better.
In short I'll just say that I see no true reason for religion(s) to exist in this modern age. We've reached a point where we don't need supernatural explanations for the Whys and Hows of the universe, we're slowly coming to terms with our own mortality, and day by day we're becoming accustomed to the idea that one religion isn't necessarily any more probable than another. The free world is growing up in the universe and is starting to find its own answers for the things that had previously confounded us.
I was born and raised into a fundamentalist christian religion, more fanatical than most can imagine. It's a very strong sphere of influence and it wasn't until I was an adult and escaped into the real world that I began to see how blind to the truth I was.
I advise anyone regardless of where you stand on religion to educate yourself. Practice your religions by all means, but learn. Physics, biology, genetics, chemistry, statistics, anything or everything. I love science and mathematics. Eventually you will do one of two things, you will either refine your theology to a more modern equivalent, or you will stop making excuses for your god(s) and begin to see things from a different perspective.
The universe is so much greater and more 'supernatural' than religion would have you believe.
*I love talking about this kind of stuff, unfortunately I don't think admin approves.