The Tabooloid, Part 1: Religion

The Tabooloid, Part 1: Religion

Disclaimer:  This article is MEANT to be controversial. It’s meant to stir feelings. It’s meant to invoke a reaction out of people. But I really don’t care about your reaction. Keep it to yourself. The following article cannot be taken as stone. It is not preaching, it is not gospel, it’s not religion bashing or the encouragement of religion. It is simply words written after deep contemplation from a mind that sees more than the world than just is, who has been told things about the afterlife from other sources.  It is meant to be as profound and eye opening food for thought or you may take it as the ramblings of a crazy person. How one interprets this next article is up to you. I take no responsibility for any offense that is taken from my genuine experience and thought. If you message me or comment on here with any form of argument, I will tell you that you can get happy in the same pants you got sad in, because this is MY thoughts and it is just meant to help people think about things, and maybe better themselves in their beliefs. Also these thoughts are not directed at EVERYBODY who has a religion or who is an Atheist. You know what kind of person you are. And if you do or do not do the things mentioned in my written monologue (which doesn’t actually even scratch the surface about my thoughts on religion), you KNOW if this is directed at you or not. Do not take offense at my general outreach to people if you KNOW in your heart of hearts that you are not as follows. Because you may not do it, but others do. And if you DO, well, read the article and just know that you’re a jerk. And I hope this helps you stop in your tracks in the future when you’re about to be a jerk again, and redirect you in the right path.

Religion. It is meant to be a great and profound thing. It is the setting of goals or regulations or requirements of life to help those find their way to another place, their desired place after death. It is a word or way of life that helps people live their life to the way that their Creator wants them to. And to some, its a placation of fear and restlessness in life.  It is supposed to be a profound thing.  A way of teaching that educates people to be a profound gathering of believers who follow the ways of their Creator to find an eternity of peace and love after their passing here in this world.

Well let’s get something straight very quickly before I begin to break down the complexities of religion from my eyes. I do believe in our Creator. To some he is known as Allah, to others Buddha. To many he is known as Lord God Almighty or The Father. And there are other names that our Creator is known as. And with every name God is worshiped differently with different cultures and heritages. I fully believe in a higher power. I believe in the complexities and mysterious origins of a place called Heaven or Sanctuary. I also believe in Hell, and dark malevolent soul thirsty entities known as Demons.  I do not believe Heaven is up and Hell is down.  But I believe they are existent. Actually, I know they exist. And with every part of me, I thank our Creator. I will thank him, and love him under all of those names or none. For I believe they are one and the same.  I do not believe that different cultures and heritages and beliefs and ways of worship make each name any less significant than the other.

I guess that’s the benefit of not having a religion however. Because as some of you were reading that paragraph you were already judging me, saying that I was wrong, or I was going to hell, or I was blaspheming. And that is the ultimate flaw of religion. If you go onto Facebook, or other social media sites, you do not have to look very hard to find people going at each other with ugly words and closed minds for their difference of opinions - and to be quite frank and burst all of those bubbles - doing the exact OPPOSITE of what their God wants. Certainly, IF he's a benevolent being, he does not want to be used as the excuse for Christians to bash each other verbally and physically. And to be frank, it's kind of stupid to do so.

And do not argue with that, not even to yourself. All you have to do is scroll down your wall I am sure for a few hours, or you can venture into forums or type in a keyword, and you will find religious hate. There was a tumblr image that was going around Facebook for a while, a long list of “Christians” bashing Atheists with words that were as ugly as the hell they so cringe from.  “All Atheists should burn in hell.” “If the law allowed, I would shoot you all in the head with a 12 gage shotgun.” Those are the two quotes that really stuck in my mind, but there were more that were equally as ugly.

I’m not sure about you, but IF I were a benevolent God, that is not how I would want my worshippers to show their love or support of me. Last time I checked, religion was about a shepherd leading a flock. And if there is a lost lamb, shouldn’t that lamb be cared for and lead home instead of bashed for being geographically challenged? I mean, that’s what I ASSUME religion is SUPPOSED to be about. But hey, if your bible says be an asshole and say cruel and ugly things, displaying you for the asshole you are, then by all means. Go ahead. Your assholery is no one else’s problem but yours at the end of your life.

It’s funny how Religion, most religions, do not encourage such ugly, sinful words. And yet almost (ALMOST) every Christianaml is guilty of such things. Religion has turned into an ugly, hypocritical thing.  Catholics hate Protestants and will war with them until the end of time. Baptists and Jehovah’s Witness will continually tell each other the other is going to hell for their differences. Religion has been tainted, by crusades, wars, judgment, prejudices since the beginning of well..Religion.

The Crusades were an excuse to murder, crying out that “In the name of God” it was excusable (I am at least aware that in the bible it simply says: Thou shall not kill. No where does it have : (“Unless it is in my name, then Murder is perfectly acceptable”) But would it really be that surprising if it did?

 I do not read the bible, because in my line of work I take dark entities out of people. Possession is a very real thing. And more than once my family not reading the bible and memorizing its profound messages word for word has saved us. Not even three years ago my mother was possessed, and what helped me know the difference between her and the entity was the scripture it procured from her mouth.

That is not the only reason however. I found that the bible is untrustworthy. The bible, back before printers and copiers and computers ever existed, had to be hand written. Kings ordered scribes to copy down the bible by hand into books when needed. And if you think that the greed of the Monarchs was quenched by the fear of the wrath of our Creator, then you were not paying attention in history class. The bible has been manipulated for thousands of years to read in the order of whomever had the authority to do so since the beginning of religion. Chapters left out, words changed, paragraphs edited. The bible reads exactly how each religion chooses to read it. It has been warped into a tool of manipulation.

If there were to be a bible that I trust, it would be the Quran. However even still, I cannot read the passages with 100% certainty. For every book was written by human hand. And unfortunately, humans have proven themselves liars time and time again over existence.  

Another thing I find ridiculous is people who are religious-based is that whenever someone else has a problem, or they themselves find something that is a problem their answer is to pray. They tell each other that God will fix it, or that God would never hand someone something they couldn’t handle. They say that God has a plan for each and every one of us and that he is personally hand-manipulating everyone’s lives. People blame God and pray and ask why when they are having issues. They thank God when there is a extraordinary good thing.

I am going to remind you of something that is sort of…the prime purpose of humans. Behold, I will tell you  MAIN ingredient that our Creator mixed into his cauldron when he created us (other than blood, carbon, matter and icky gooey stuff on our insides). Free will. Free will dominates our world. That is so important. Free will makes you sin. Not the devil. Freewill makes you an asshole who says being gay is bad or atheists should die. Freewill puts you in the predicaments that you are in (and karma probably). Freewill gets you that promotion at work when you chose to work hard and proved your worth to your coworkers and supervisors. Freewill starts war under the excuse of religion. Free will makes that man find the courage to save that woman about to be hit by a car. Freewill makes heroes. Freewill makes villains. Free will makes us who we are. Freewill is what turns our world with greed or love. God does not do any of that.  Like any good parent who is displaying a dose of tough love to their child learning how to walk, our Creator sits back and watches us fall and stand over and over again. It is our choices to rise above and learn to run that gains his approval and love.

And if you think that God has time to personalize every single one of our lives you are clearly delusional. There are BILLIONS of people on earth. Do you HONESTLY think God is going to write out every single story on this earth? And what, the Devil just interjects every once in a while with fanfiction of his own? Seriously? 

Freewill. It makes us assholes. Or it makes us amazing. And that is totally up to each and every individual on their own. Stop blaming our Creator for the troubles in your life, and stop using him as an excuse. That is also a form of blasphemy.

Personally, I run on faith. I myself feel, as well as many other people do, that we do not need a church, a saint, a priest, or any other kind of religious leader or icon to talk to God. Faith is the belief of. And having the faith of is enough. You do your best to be a good person, do not hurt other people or torment Gods creatures. Take care of the Earth, and be kind. Help others. And pray to whom or whatever you believe in, and you will do fine… we are not meant to know. And it is presumptuous to think you know, or to tell others that they are wrong.  It is arrogant to think that you are so special that you are better than someone else, or your beliefs are better than anyone else’s.

….Now for you Atheists. Don’t think you’re getting off the hook that easily. I see a lot of religion hate from you folks too. And a lot of it seems to be based off of “I don’t believe in anything, and you’re stupid to believe if you do. Because SCIENCE.” OR It’s based off of “I hate Catholicism so I am going to be an Atheist just to spite everyone, and I’m going to bash God, and bash religion EVERY FUCKING CHANCE I GET.”

Yah. To those of you who are like that. Fuck you. Again. Your assholery is no one’s problem but yours, and that kind of attitude tells me you’re kind of a lonely person, because you’re probably hard to tolerate on a general basis, not just when talking about religion. Because you have a God complex despite your ‘lack’ of belief. And you think you’re better because you can pull up science that you probably have NO clue what the actual fuck you’re talking about as a justification for not believing in God and bashing those who might be a little bit more open minded that there are other things. I know plenty of people like you. You probably like to go on the internet and try to look smart and make people feel small too. Because that’s the kind of person you are. How very pathetic and lonely. By the way, I know a few Christian scientists, and they are just fine finding a balance between faith, or religion, and science.

To the other kinds of Atheists who generally have no idea what to believe, or don’t believe in anything because it seems…far-fetched.  You aren’t Atheist. You’re Agnostic. You just dunno what to believe.

Think of God, or Creator, Or whatever name you want to give the main God as the CEO of a business. He’s a paper pusher. He makes executive decisions on the state of the company based off of the information he receives from his managers.

Now these managers could be minor gods, Demi-Gods, Angels. Arch angels, or other kinds of deities that you might be interested. And below them are the supervisors. Guardians, familiars, spirits, mediators between worlds, Employees are perhaps the churches, and spiritual leaders of each different religion. And the consumers would be the believers, or the congregations. Perhaps it’s the same reverse up too, for those that choose the odd religion of Satanism (I mention it because I respect ALL religions equally, even if some scare me a little bit).

As I mentioned earlier, I run on Faith. The Creator is a CEO. Or maybe even a mob boss. He’s got homies. He’s got an entire arsenal of homies. Just find something to believe in. Believe in Kathulu is that is what rocks your boat. Or Alien Gods. Or Greek Gods. Or Native American Dieties. Or Chinese or Hindu or... WHATEVER!

All of these things, I truly believe are our Creators homies, or Managers. You don’t have to believe in the CEO or the Almighty. As long as you believe in SOMETHING, you will be just fine. Because a world without any kind of faith that there might be something better than this wretched, cruel world… is a dark dreary world indeed. There is an entire world full of different kinds of something for you to believe in. Look into it. Do some research. You'll find something that will make sense to you, or you won't, and you'll become Athiest. Which is okay too. 

And if you are happy not believing in anything, then good for you. Just try not to be an asshole to people who do. Because you’re not much better than the ‘hypocrites’ that you criticize every day if you judge them back.

To everyone who doesn’t fit exactly in this article I just want to say: good for you. You’re not doing something that caused a loud keyboarded girl to notice you.  To those who have Religions and follow it, and manage to keep yourself in good spirits, and don’t use Religion as an excuse to be a jerk to those who may or may not agree with you: You are obviously a good person. You’re just fine. Keep in mind that I’m not bashing Religion in any way shape or form. I’m not discouraging it. I’m just noting flaws that people seem to be taking to the bank as a reason to get a loan for a gun.  Keep doing what you’re doing, because you my friend, are the ideal kind of Christian. You’re rare and precious. And God bless you.