so of course instead of studying i'm reading things that aren't my subject matter that i need to be focusing on..
i got invited on facebook to some creepy God group. i hate when people do the whole "YOU MUST INVITE ALL YOUR FRIENDS TO THIS GROUP BECAUSE GOD SAYS SO" bullshit. or the "YOU DONT LOVE GOD UNLESS YOU INVITE PEOPLE AND MAKE THEM LOVE GOD TOO" like seriously, shut the fuck up, I love and believe in God and believe that He makes everything happen for a reason and everything that happens or that He does is done out of His Love. BUT.. here's what i'm thinking:
so, the Bible, it's a BOOK. it is written by MAN. not God, because, come on, how the hell does a being that we don't really fully know ANYTHING about write a book? by that i mean - most people don't even know if He exists or not.
some people take this book literally and become serious psycho-fanatics.. look at the freakin psychopaths who protested at the funerals of the Virginia Tech students! they're fucking nutjobs!! all because they take the Bible, or some scripture they worship, seriously.
honestly, just to piss you Christians off, i'd like to liken the situation, absurdly, to Harry Potter - i LOVE HP, the whole series of books. so what if i put them all together and said here's this. Dumbledore is God, Harry is Jesus, Ron, Hermione, Seamus, Ginny, and all those other Hogwarts kids who follow Harry around and believe in him like crazy, are the Apostles. &, Voldemort, obviously, is the devil.
so say i do that and i believe so completely that there is this world full of magic and wonder, and that Harry defeats Voldemort and is my personal savior. it sounds so stupid, i know it does! so who the hell is to say that the Bible didn't start off like Harry Potter and someone just took is way too seriously.
i mean if you read the Bible all the way through it really reads like one big sci-fi novel.
i don't really understand what the point of taking some crazy book with a lot of words and chapters so seriously is. like.. honestly, it's a book. they're words. people wrote it.
go to Barnes & Noble and you'll find a lot of those... books.. with words.. written by authors.. with a lot of chapters.. sometimes compilations written by a bunch of different authors...
sound familiar?
idk.. i'm skeptical. i always really have been.. well, for the majority of my life. i was raised catholic, i was a gun-ho (sp?) catholic in middle school, when i was young and impressionable, now i'm older and skeptical, and honestly, for good reason. catholicism is practically a cult. it really is. these people going around telling people to change or they'll die a horrible death or live a horrible eternal life.
it's so cult-like, but try telling Christians that. it's impossible, they get so annoyed and pissed. i think it's obnoxious - open your mind, that's the only way to open your heart.
and christians talk all the time about love and opening their hearts to all, but it's bullshit, they close their hearts to most - like homosexuals, sometimes certain races, people who have sex before marriage, those who decide not to give a child a horrible life and have an abortion, people who are divorced, all these people get turned away, but if all these people are turned away from the church, how can you say you have an open heart for people? you can't.
so christianity is a cult because they are a closed-minded, closed-off, exclusive group.
if not a cult, then a clique, but either way, it's not a good thing.
organized religion, in my opinion, is, in general, a bad thing.
basing your beliefs off a book that could very well be fictional is really dumb and unfounded.
i think i might go worship Harry Potter, just to piss everyone off.
yea, that sounds good enough for me.
k i have to go study for real now.
peace out cub scouts.
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