Back in March I wrote a post titled To Hell with Religion!, which now that it’s found in the Best of Blogstein section, has been rediscovered and has sparked a debate.
A commenter who chose to remain anonymous stopped by in an attempt to, I presume, “save me.” I recommend you read his whole “sales pitch” but here are some highlights with his spelling errors in tact:
“You imagine God as a police officer that punishes you for this and that and personally i dont blaim you because they tought you that “if you do this you go to hell” or “if you do that, God will punish you”. But God is trully freedom. God is love and you ought to search a little more. You think that you are free to have sex or kill or sin but this is not freedom. This is slavory to you own animal instict.”
“You are not an animal my friend. You have brain. Look at your wonderful site. This is your creation. An animal doesn’t do this. An animal seeks only food, sex and sleep. You are a reflection of God. God’s love is living inside you. You are full of creativity and imagination but you have been caught in the nets.”
“Ever wonder why so much depression , panic attacks and anxiety nowadays? Things weren’t like this, few years ago. Now the best occupation is to be a therapist, a psychologist, a neurologist. Tons of pills every day sold in order to allow one to feel like a human again. Why?… why such emptyness? Isn’t there something missing from our lives? Have faith. Even a little search for God will help you understand what i am talking about.”
Well, this got me thinking because he’s not all wrong. We all
are getting a little crazy. There are tons of people in therapy and on antidepressants. People are idolizing partying sluts like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, and
hot cheerleaders are going hog wild in Texas.
Is Anonymous Commenter right? Are we missing God in our life? I thought about it and I gave him partial credit. I don’t think we’re missing God, I think we’re missing the fear of God that we used to have.
I try hard to believe in a higher being but I still remain skeptical. A piece of me thinks religion was a bed time story parents told their kids to make sure they behaved. “Be good, Abraham, or God will punish you!”
But let’s say there is a God, a higher being. How can we go around making believe that we know what that all knowing, omnipresent, higher being wants from us? Maybe He wants us to have lots of sex? Who knows? He is on a much higher plain than us.
I think over time many of us learned that God is not throwing lightning bolts at us if we do something bad. And we’ve seen large sampling of good things happening to bad people and bad things happening to good people. There does not seem to be any correlation between purity and prosperity so why not have fun? (within reason, of course)
There’s no reason to be bad to others but there’s also no reason to deprive ourselves from a little recreational sinning. God cares if I have a one night stand? God cares if you get drunk and vomit on the sidewalk?
Coming up this week on DR. BLOGSTEIN’S RADIO HAPPY HOUR: (Live on Tuesday September 11th at 9PM ET and forever archived at BlogTalkRadio.)
Dr. Blogstein and Jane will meet singer and former American Idol contestant Sarah Burgess.
