Many times, when people are asked why they believe in God, they answer "so I don't go to Hell" or "So I can go to heaven." I must ask, is that truly believing in God because you feel that it is so, or is that just saving your ass so you don't go to a place where you will be "tortured for eternity?" How a non-corporal entity can be tortured is beyond me, of course, but that's entirely separate.
How many people believe in God either because their parents do, the propaganda thrown about by the government or/and the Church, or because they are scared of the negative consequences of not doing so? If anyone does for those reasons, is that truly believing in God? I doubt that anyone that "believes in God" answered the questions I just asked honestly to yourselves, at any rate. Why would you want to admit it to yourself, that something that gives you solace you only believe in because it gives you solace, not because you believe it to be so?
Sometimes, I think that is purely what religious ceremonies are for; religious ceremonies are purely to convince yourself that you believe and, of course, arm yourself with appropriate verses from your holy book to bolster that. Belief isn't about what is written in a book, not really. Nor is belief what is preached or taught or handed down. Nor is belief saving your ass or a way to hide or relieve your fears. Nor is belief a way to give your life meaning or to give you solace from a tragic event or disturbing line of thought or way to cope with your problems or addictions.
To me, "believing" for those reasons is purely hypocritical, not to mention pathetic. If you're so insecure that you must rely upon something fictitious, why aren't you trying to find your own answers, why aren't you securing yourself in the way you are and that certain events happened or certain decision have been made instead of hiding behind some currently popular divine figure who will more than likely fade out of existence in 2,000 more years, if not less? It happened with the pagan, ancient Greeks (though there is a resurgence, so that clearly must be the correct religion), the pagan Romans, the pagan Celts, the pagan Welsh, the pagan Indians, the pagan Japanese, the pagan Native Americans, the pagan Africans, the mono-theistic Celts, the mono-theistic Romans, the mono-theistic Welsh, the poly-theistic Romans, the poly-theistic Celts, the poly-theistic Greeks, the poly-theistic Japanese, the poly-theistic Indians, the poly-theistic Native Americans, the poly-theistic Africans. Why not pick one of those? Why aren't they correct? Why are they persecuted? Most of those religions have lasted so much longer than Christianity or even Judaism.
What was I talking about?
Oh, right. People found solace in those that they will be saved in those pantheons, but according to the Christians, those are wrong and they are suffering in Hell. How Christians know they won't suffer in one of those hells for believing in the Christian God? How is that saving your ass?
I don't think my train ever got back onto the right track. Incompetent conductors.
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