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Religion?
What are your views on religion? I'm talking about Christianity, Jesus, and all that good stuff. I'm just wondering...I need to be entertained by your funny answers again haha
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Christianity gives me a bit of a problem... actually, logistically, it gives me a lot of a problem. You know, the King James version (and it's a version, isn't it? You know good old James left out TONS of chapters that he didn't like, because he was King, because he was British? Stuff about women, and freedom, and such...) wasnt written until the tenth century or so, and you know fossils weren't discovered until the 1700's... so where's dinosaurs in the bible, huh?
Quote: "In the beginning, God created the earth, and animals, and then man, but before that, there were dinosaurs, but they sucked..."
Jesus, I'm sure, wouldn't be Christian if he were alive today.
No, I'm serious! Come on! He lived under Roman rule--the most uptight, European, shaved-faces leather-skirted Republicans EVER at that time. What did Jesus come up with? "Hang out, drink some wine, be groovy with whores and liberals and artists and fishermen and people you government bastards HATE. It's great! Come on! Love thy neighbor: it's free love, baby!"
Jesus was a freakin' liberal, a heretic, hated by the government, hated by the religious right. Christians now would hate him too. Well, most of them anyway. Not the real Christians. The crazy right-wing Conservative Sunday-Christians. The ones that egg your car and shoot your cat.
Being serious for a moment... That, though, is the real reason that after 18 steady years of church with Christian parents and a pretty docile church community, I decided it was just wrong--it was the Sunday Christians. Nothing pisses me off more than someone who just never, never matches up with what they preach and bow their heads to every week. I saw a lot of hate in school and in public committed by people with crosses around their necks, and I didn't want to be in that mob any more.
Now, when you said religion, there's more to that than Christianity and Jesus and all that good stuff, man. There's Buddhism, which I'm reading because it's very sweet and calming. Even Buddhism, though, isn't without people who will twist it for gain and cruelty. No religion is safe. It's an invasion! A freaking take-over by the nasty people who haven't learned their karmic lessons! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES AND PURITY OF SPIRIT!!
As for myself, I'm a Wiccan priestess with some eclectic background (that is, reading and adding philosophies and practices from other religions as I choose, to make one conglomerate path toward truth). I find that most of the trouble with religions comes from associating with other people--letting other people make rules for you about abstract things like god and love and truth and hate, and having the mob mentality that "seventy thousand other people think so, and it's easy for me to think so too!". The path I've found is good for solitaries--I rely only on myself and my spirit to find happiness in deity.
Sorry, not all of that is entertaining, but there it is.
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