Hi all
I am so sorry I have not posted anything in a while. I have been busy with uni and work. Just to let you know everything is going well. This is a post I found that Timothy wrote about his struggle with God. We always had a lot of discussions about this topic. He was always up and down about whether he believed or not. This gives you an idea about some of the questions going around his head. I dd cut it as it does go on but his point is clearly made. Anyway as always I hope you enjoy it and I would love to hear your views.
Lee
I’ve being having problems with religion again. The more I
think about it the more my head hurts. I seem to be pulled in different direction
like a threesome with religion and atheism. I just wish things were simple. I
really should not be having those kind of fantasies at my age. Just normal
ones like being sandwich between the Sprouse brothers an force to decide who
goes at which end. That’s the kind of dilemma I want to have. Not whether the existence God is a imaginary necessary
or a mapped guild line to perfection.
I am in two minds about this. In one mind I don’t think he exists.
(Or she) On the other hand I would like him to exist. I like the idea of
knowing that this isn’t just it. That there are more to come once our existence come
to be. Some days I feel like I’ve been handed the crap card of life but as
a reward God will make it up to me once my life is over. (oh great) So I just have to
suffer for now which is bogus. (I love that word)
Here are 10 questions I have about God that hurts my head.
1. If God exists why are there so many different religions? Each
of them proclaiming they are the truth and the others are liars. How are you supposed
to choose the right one if all of them are determining by where you happen to
be born and who is teaching you?
2. If God does exist why is he hiding? Why don’t he just come
out and say ‘Here I am now stop your fighting and start worshiping me. What’s
with the hide and seek game? I gave that up when I was 9.
3. What is with this worshiping? Really he made us so we
just keep telling him how magnificent he is. Isn’t narcissism a sin or an illness?
4. What’s with the blackmailing? So he saying if I don’t worship
him he gets his mate to beat me up and burn me for all eternity (Which is a long time. Talk about over dramatic) When did he
become a fan of the Godfather?
5. Why is Christianity and Muslim the biggest religion with 2.5 billion people between them believing. What happens to the other 3.5 billion people? Don't they count?
6. How comes the two biggest religions are not the oldest?
The oldest known form religion is Paganism. Even Kabbalah and Shamanism was
formed before the big two, so how comes they get to dictate world policies and whether
I am allowed to poke my boyfriends bum end.
7. Why do catholic priest find us teen boys so hard to resist?
Where does it say in the bible I am OK to be used as a willy rest stop?
8. If religion is about peace and understanding then how
comes most wars are base on the belief system and intolerant of each other?
9. If God made us in his image and he is perfect, then what’s
the deal with the penis? Was that a joke and why on earth do we males have nipples?
Who are we supposed to feed?
10. If God truly does exist. Then why has he never answered
my prayers. Why am I still defected?
As we absorb more and more about the world and each other, the
need for an external entity to guide us becomes less obligatory. Once we
realise we need each other to progress and that can only be attained by collaboration
and seeing each other as equals, then and only then will we be able to create
the utopia we all want and advance as human species. However the more we try to
individualise ourselves and split up into groups that fit our taught ideology
the further we abstain from reaching that goal.
I think religion does more harm than good which is why my
head hurts. That and the 6 cans of Redbull I’ve just drunk. We humans (yes I do
speak for us all) seems to be desperate to explain the unknown. If we don’t
have answer then we simply make it up. I think the stress of not knowing why we
are here and what our purpose is force us to provide answers because we could
not comprehend existing without some kind of plan.
We need rules and leaders above us in order not
to descend into chaos. That’s where religion played it part. But as time moves
on and our knowledge has grown the dependency that religion had on us is not needed.
However people are afraid to let go of that stability because it offers
direction and comfort and an itinerary for living where the unknown cannot.
I say we should embrace the unknown and not let it hold us
back because knowledge is the true power of existence.
If god does exist and he is as perfect and just and
wonderful as described then he will understand and not condemn us to a life of misery
and pain just because we choose to live in peace. I think he would rather that
than what we have today. People killing each other in his name.
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| Timothy and Amber at school |

