What ties us to a religion? To a thought or a concept or a theory? What makes us quiver in self doubt and wonder, just for a moment, whether a life long-held wish could be merely the illusion of truth? I ponder my deepest fears sometimes when I'm the most alone, when the house is silent from a day of child's play and after-work relaxation. When it's just me and the two cats, in the hourspan before they run a muck throughout the house that has become, as night falls, their kingdom.
Who is god? Why, when reading a book so devoutly touted as the bible, do I feel unease? I have read it, and read it... and read it... Short of learning Hebrew to properly understand the connotations that cannot be expressed in an English translation (ie: how many different meanings can a word such as 'mount' hold?), I have tried my best throughout my life to try and honestly understand how someone can believe the words found within this desk top paper weight.
The god of the bible is, on one hand, a merciless murderer, betrayer, and sadistic individual. He tests his followers callously, violently. He contradicts himself constantly.
The simple conclusion is: The bible was written by humans. Fallable by nature we are, frought with conflict and strife... even in our nearest history, our yesterday, our parents childhoods, there are examples of the cruelty and greedy hate that can drive a human to write an untruth.
Not to mention the fact that the bible was censored ridgidly by the still forming 'church', it's leaders deciding on whims what eh... 'gospels' would be included in the 'holy' text.
Fishy. Stinky fish. Yes, thats what it smelled like to me.
What turned me from a bible curious youngling in baptist sunday school to a skeptical atheist? Proverbs.
Go read it. If you still are baffled, then you're clueless.
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Right on par with my thoughts on this subject!
ReplyDeleteThe bible is exactly what it says it is "bible" = "book" it's a book. A book that was written by a human [or a few humans]. Humans have agendas and humans have bias.
I have never understood how people can claim something written by humans is divine word, how they must follow every letter... but if I were to tell them that maybe I followed the letter to one of my favorite fantasy books they would say how absurd it is. Is it really? Is it absurd to live life according to a book you trust and grew up with? What do they think the bible is? If they don't believe in magic, how can half of the stuff they claim to believe have happened?
Faith, my child. Do not question, do not wonder.
ReplyDeleteSickens me that, as a majority, the human race chooses to live by the rule of the few. It's fear, but then again humans are also amazingly cowardly :(. Ahhh well.