What happens when we die? Where do we all come from? How
will the world end? These are the questions that freak so many people out, that
we will create stories, just to keep them in line, essentially closing their
minds to reality, and substituting in certainty about all of these questions,
while the real thing we should be practicing is being doubtful, and humble. The
reason for this is the fact that religion has no evidence. The
Bible teaches us that the Earth was created 6,000 " 10,000 years ago, and we
all began with the story of Adam and Eve, with the talking snake and a tree
with apples containing the knowledge of good and evil. While this may be a good
story with values and morals, it is preposterous that so many people take the
Bible and its stories literally. That’s what this book will confront. It will
challenge everyone’s beliefs and lack thereof. I will interview various
religious individuals, and grow along the way, as I hope my readers will do
also. I will also present my own personal beliefs along the way.
There is such a huge,
overwhelming minority in this country right now; a minority that is greater
than Asians, Hispanics, African-Americans, and NRA members. These are the
non-religious, rational people. I believe there is an even greater number than
the 16% believed to be. It is the great untapped minority, and I believe there
are multiple reasons this minority is never heard from in the mainstream. The
big reason would be that these individuals feel alone; they feel that if they
say how they truly feel, family members, and friends will treat them
differently, and most likely, sadly, they will. This is where the hypocrisy of
religion comes into play: the super-religious people, usually so rational about
everything else, and so moral, will condemn individuals with a lack of faith
and threaten them with eternal damnation. The reason being, it says to in their
Holy Book.
Take the Qu’ran, for instance,
which professes the notion of “killing the infidel,” and suicide bombing in the
name of their God, Allah, in order to obtain virgins in Heaven. There is a
great fallacy in all of these stories and myths, a naturalistic fallacy as well
as a logical fallacy. Simply because we have everything we do, and the Universe
exists, does not mean that there is in fact, an Almighty Creator. At the same
time, it doesn’t mean there isn’t as well. As I stated before, I’m simply
preaching doubt, that’s my sermon. My purpose is to challenge everyone’s
belief, because if we don’t challenge our faith, and just let these questions
in the back of our mind, uncaring, blind, our faith isn’t truly ours. We must
formulate our own opinions, and not conform to a particular belief system.
On
that note, I’d like to state that this is not merely a book to “roast”
religion; it is to educate the religious and non-religious, and present my own
personal beliefs of religion, and will focus primarily on Jesus of Nazareth,
and my own personal theories of his life, stemming from my belief in religion
for 19 years, followed by the questioning of it, and finally realizing the good
that comes of it and having my personal revelations of Jesus’ existence. While
I may be considered a “non-believer” in the traditional sense, I recognize the
goodness of religion and this world, and don’t need a belief in God in order to
see it. Instead of going to church every Sunday, try practicing your beliefs,
our simply embracing all of “God’s glory.” While this may seem paradoxical,
it’s not. Imagine God as metaphorical for everything good, instead of an actual
person who created everything. It is this allusion that I believe in. I see God
in everyone and everything. I can also see a metaphorical “Devil” in some bad
situations as well. When we start to realize that it is not God who has the
power to “End the world,” and instead it is us; with polluting on a
catastrophic scale, wars, and the like, we will truly be a free world. When we
look past ridiculous prophecy, as well as self-fulfilling prophecy, we will
come closer to being the best people we can, and reach self-actualization.
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