Hello, this will be another post in English. But first...
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Once again, today's topic is about a being that is in one way or another a concern for everybody. Whether they hate Him, ignore Him, believe in Him, people are interested in God.
However, my subject will not be faith. It will be its child -- something that has come out of faith and yet has nothing to do with it. Sometimes, I find it even gets as far as possible from faith, as any child should do at a certain point.
That child's name is religion.
You see, once again, I am not interested in what people believe in. It's their freedom to do so, therefore I do not care, as long as they do not care about me either.
My concern today is more likely to do with, quite bluntly put, how people use it or more precisely put, abuse it. It would seem that one type of abuse unites all people that have/are or will believe in a higher power, no matter race, skin color, accent, religion or intellectual capacity.
And that thing is called blame. To elaborate more, that thing is excusing yourself with someone else who should be held responsible for every single action that you have or will do on this planet.
People do a lot of things in the name of God or because of God. Even more interesting though, it would seem that even if some do not believe in Him (or Her, or It), they hold responsible that same deity for the actions of His believers. Some kill excusing themselves with God, others blame God for being killed and everybody altogether blames God for having to watch such extremities.
God gets stick for everything -- from serious issues as war, poverty, hunger, misery and general disorder to everyday problems such as running out of gas, not getting that job spot you've always wanted, not getting an A++, losing the girl and having to cope with bad weather. Everything that is even slightly irritating or troubling is because of God.
When it gets to finding reasons for our failures, we've got everything figured out.
However, when it comes to good deeds... Well, that's when a lot of people suddenly forget God. A lot of people still don't, notably, but the majority of people are too busy shouting random sounds or thinking how truly awesome they are ("Man, I'm awesome!") to remember the same person who had been responsible for all the trouble so far.
Once again, it would appear that the very first reaction of a person that just succeeded is to think "I deserve this!" Do you now? You're entitled to everything good, because you've suffered at a certain point in your life? Well, what about John over there? He's suffered too, but he lost what you just won. Oh, don't feel guilty for that. Don't blame yourself for taking everything from John. Blame God. That's what John is doing.
Whatever you do though, do forget the two apparently unimportant words 'free will'. Because apparently we're pretending that the moment when God gave man (and woman) free will never happened. Now that moment is just a blank spot in history. We never turned 18 (or in some countries 21), we never got old enough to take responsibility. Anyway, why should we take responsibility? It's so much easier to have the best excuse ever, right?
Hey, it wasn't my fault! It was because of my spiritual dad, who lives in the clouds!
Humanity has existed for quite a while now. But we, humans, are smart. We've stopped pointing fingers at each other. Oh, no, we're better than that. We've figured out that if everybody blames their neighbor, then everybody's other neighbor will blame us.
That's why we started pointing fingers at the only being that will not speak back -- God.
If you ask me, I'd prefer if we could blame God. But we can't, because we have free will. Because supposedly, we can distinguish good from bad. It's what eating that shiny apple got us, according to some interpretations. One of the rather big jumps for mankind has been to decide that no spiritual entity decides its fate. "I can do whatever I want to!" Or at least that's how it started. Then people saw what they'd lose from sticking up to such a statement. Therefore, I'm certain, somewhere there's a secret document of conduct. And it's probably saying:
In a world ruled by man (or woman), God gets the stick. Taking responsibility is simply too much for us at this stage.
Eating the apple got us free will, but no responsibility. Perhaps eating a grape will do the trick this time?
However, my subject will not be faith. It will be its child -- something that has come out of faith and yet has nothing to do with it. Sometimes, I find it even gets as far as possible from faith, as any child should do at a certain point.
That child's name is religion.
You see, once again, I am not interested in what people believe in. It's their freedom to do so, therefore I do not care, as long as they do not care about me either.
My concern today is more likely to do with, quite bluntly put, how people use it or more precisely put, abuse it. It would seem that one type of abuse unites all people that have/are or will believe in a higher power, no matter race, skin color, accent, religion or intellectual capacity.
And that thing is called blame. To elaborate more, that thing is excusing yourself with someone else who should be held responsible for every single action that you have or will do on this planet.
People do a lot of things in the name of God or because of God. Even more interesting though, it would seem that even if some do not believe in Him (or Her, or It), they hold responsible that same deity for the actions of His believers. Some kill excusing themselves with God, others blame God for being killed and everybody altogether blames God for having to watch such extremities.
God gets stick for everything -- from serious issues as war, poverty, hunger, misery and general disorder to everyday problems such as running out of gas, not getting that job spot you've always wanted, not getting an A++, losing the girl and having to cope with bad weather. Everything that is even slightly irritating or troubling is because of God.
When it gets to finding reasons for our failures, we've got everything figured out.
However, when it comes to good deeds... Well, that's when a lot of people suddenly forget God. A lot of people still don't, notably, but the majority of people are too busy shouting random sounds or thinking how truly awesome they are ("Man, I'm awesome!") to remember the same person who had been responsible for all the trouble so far.
Once again, it would appear that the very first reaction of a person that just succeeded is to think "I deserve this!" Do you now? You're entitled to everything good, because you've suffered at a certain point in your life? Well, what about John over there? He's suffered too, but he lost what you just won. Oh, don't feel guilty for that. Don't blame yourself for taking everything from John. Blame God. That's what John is doing.
Whatever you do though, do forget the two apparently unimportant words 'free will'. Because apparently we're pretending that the moment when God gave man (and woman) free will never happened. Now that moment is just a blank spot in history. We never turned 18 (or in some countries 21), we never got old enough to take responsibility. Anyway, why should we take responsibility? It's so much easier to have the best excuse ever, right?
Hey, it wasn't my fault! It was because of my spiritual dad, who lives in the clouds!
Humanity has existed for quite a while now. But we, humans, are smart. We've stopped pointing fingers at each other. Oh, no, we're better than that. We've figured out that if everybody blames their neighbor, then everybody's other neighbor will blame us.
That's why we started pointing fingers at the only being that will not speak back -- God.
If you ask me, I'd prefer if we could blame God. But we can't, because we have free will. Because supposedly, we can distinguish good from bad. It's what eating that shiny apple got us, according to some interpretations. One of the rather big jumps for mankind has been to decide that no spiritual entity decides its fate. "I can do whatever I want to!" Or at least that's how it started. Then people saw what they'd lose from sticking up to such a statement. Therefore, I'm certain, somewhere there's a secret document of conduct. And it's probably saying:
In a world ruled by man (or woman), God gets the stick. Taking responsibility is simply too much for us at this stage.
Eating the apple got us free will, but no responsibility. Perhaps eating a grape will do the trick this time?
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