Journal ellem's Journal: Why I gave up religion for Lent 3
(Samuel Admas ghost Wrote a Bunch Of this)
It's like this:
Religion does 2 things.
1) It gives humans a sense that they have to be good because when they die there are consequences for their actions. this is a good thing. If during my 1040EZ I am amble to find the mathematical equation that proves God does not exist the world WILL fall into total anarchy. There are no reprecusssion. Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law.
2) It represses sex. this seems weird because sex hasn't been particularly dangerous in sometime thanks to Penicillin. But before the advent of fuzzy bread exlir SEX KILLED. Often. Someone had to step in and say, "You there, humping your comely sister; quit it!"
Of course the Sexual Revolution has come and gone and left a wake of fucking and pr0n in its path unparalled in Human exisitence. Religion seems quaint and well, frankly, stupid. I'm a big god fan, but weirdos who take vows of celibacy just freak me out. Their hands are always clammy and they stare at my wife's huge tits. I would sooner leave my kids at Neverland.
You know I have no issue with "In God We Trust" or Moore's 10 commandments monolith. I don't Who cares? Well the ACLU, but seriously fuck them and the FCC. My point is I think that The State Shall Not Establish A Church doesn't mean The State Hates & Abolishes God.
However, just let the fucking Homosexuals get married. Be fucking done with it. And while you're at it make divorce extremely painful. make it so fucking painful that 20 somethings think long and hard before they get married. Shit make it so unpleasant that men lose their erections upon the thought of knockin up that really hot girl in Penn Station.
Make sex matter.
Now I gave up religion years ago after finding out why Friday the 13th is considered bad luck... which took me on a trip through the Crusades & the Knights Templar. (Google Jaques DeMolay) I realized the Catholics were not the kind of folk I want to spend any time with despite my years at St Anslem's & St John The Baptist (man he had a good head on his shoulders.)
But I continued to study religion. the more I found out the less i liked it. Yet ALL religion boils down to two things.
1) Consequences
2) Sex
And those two congeal into control. I don't need to be controlled. There is God and when I die I will simply be merged back into the greater energy of God. Perhaps if I am really bad I will be flushed away. I don't know. But I am not all that worried about it. I try to be nice becuase i think it is a good idea, not becuase I am afraid of Hell.
Shit, it is warm and I know all my friends will be there. It's like Cancun.
Huh? (Score:2)
Shit make it so unpleasant that men lose their erections upon the thought of knockin up that really hot girl in Penn Station.
Is "really hot girls getting knocked up in Penn Station" really that much of an issue? Especially since Opie and Anthony were kicked off the air?
Don't toss out the baby with the bathwater (Score:2)
Whoa. The "Matrix" meets St. Augustine.
At any rate, not all religions -- not even Christian ones -- are the same. Not even all Catholic ones are the same. I know that the Roman Catholic Church likes to put you on a major guilt-trip (while Protestants make you feel like you're going to hell anyway, so why bother), but there are versions of Christianity that might surp
religion is anti-sex??? (Score:2)
Sure, Christianity (which isn't all religions, but seems to be the one getting targeted) was-and-is against the hedonistic mass orgies frequent in so many of the old relgions, but surely that isn't the same as being against sex.
I don't like the secondary stature that Christianity gives to women, but at least I appreciate an intention to keep women from getting knocked up and then abandoned.