personally, i’ve never researched the religion. basically because i don’t care all that much, to be completely honest. but from the reasons she explained to me, i thought, ‘hmm, what’s so wrong about that?’ on the surface, nothing. i guess i already do most of that. i generally want the best for people. i appreciate the little things. i really do. i realize just about every action has a consequence of some sort. but i’ve decided i think ‘karma’ isn’t as mystical as we all think it is. isn’t it just, when we get down to it, ‘cause and effect’? i honestly don’t think God is up there waiting for us to make a mistake and then BAM! slaps us on the wrist or strikes us with lightening. i honestly just think when we do good, sometimes good things happen. when we do bad, a lot of times bad things happen. but EYE don’t think that’s karma or even necessarily God. i just think that’s the way the world works. you eat a bunch of crap, you’re gonna feel and look and crap crap. you eat a bunch of good things, you’re gonna feel good, look good and crap good. right?
so what do i find wrong with the religion? well, a biggy is that they don’t worship God – the creator of the universe and my right hand man.
i would just like to be honest in saying i completely understand why some of you think christianity is a load of shit. i think it is too, for the most part-at least the organized religion. christians are some of the rudest, meanest, uppity, most selfish pigs i’ve ever interacted with. and i’d usually rather hang out with catholics, jehovah witnesses, and other religions where ‘good works will get you to heaven’. (now don’t go all commenty on me. you may deny that claim of ‘works getting you to heaven’ stuff, but when you get down to it and really read the doctrine of what you’re participating in, you’ll see that i’m not so wrong after all.)
ANYWAY, a unique thing about christianity is that it’s one of the only (if not -the only) ‘religions’ that a god has come to our level, so to speak. our god wanted a relationship with us even tho we were rude, mean, uppity and selfish pigs. so he came to earth in the form of a man (jesus) and did all the ‘good works and sacrifices’ FOR us so we wouldn’t have to EARN him. he, to be quite simple, ‘earned’ US. (dying on a cross, and coming back to life. because he’s God after all. ...can’t hold that One down, lemme tell ya.) so even tho i am forever grateful that my God would take a grenade and throw his hand on a blade for me and jump in front of a train for me (a little bruno mars for ya), i think it has left most of us feeling ‘entitled’. spoiled little bratty children. SPOILED CHILDREN! spoiled children who walk around flaunting their ‘i’m daddy’s favorite’ status in the other childrens’ face. reminding them that they’re ‘better than them’. we were bought with a price for goodness sake. we were pulled from the ashes. we were saved from the flames! and you? YOU are going to be burned in the lake of fire and turn to ashes and, uh, gnashing of teeth and hell and stuff. you are unholy. you are so unholy that you cannot hang around me. because i am redeemed. i am set free. i am the lord’s child. bull. you’re an uppity child of God who needs to be slapped in the face with their own bible they’ve been beating so many with. or punched in the face by me. either one. they’ll both work.
so please. PLEASE, take ME and my snotty blogs and realize that ‘we’re’ not all the same. i apologize for my ‘sisters and brothers in the lord’. man i hate that phrase. because sometimes i don’t even want to be lumped into that group with ‘them’. jesus loving christians out there reading this: please be aware of how a ‘non believer’ views you. remember those ridiculous WWJD bracelets? well, maybe you should start wearing one again. that is, IF you’re one of those christians who turn more and more people OFF to the idea of loving a God that would die over and over again for you. be careful not to misrepresent who we are loving. i know i sometimes do it too, but, well, at least i try to be honest about it. i was a lot more uppity about it in high school and college. so i apologize if i misrepresented who i love.
and to those of you who are still stuck at the beginning of the blog where i’m practically giving buddhism a good review: all i’m really saying is, perhaps we should (me included) actually LISTEN to our friends with different views and religions and take away what we can from those conversations and LEARN from them. it doesn’t mean you have to change what or who you believe in. it merely means maybe what you believe and worship IS ‘right’. but we don’t always DO it right. we don’t always love others. we don’t always think about the consequence of our actions. we don’t always appreciate the smell of a strawberry or the sound of a branch snapping. learn from others. love others. accept others and their views, because the LORD knows your views aren’t perfect either. amen.
