WARNING…..if you are a offended easily, do not read this post!
I question everything and believe very little of what I am
told. I am one of those "got to figure it out
myself based on what makes sense to me".
NudeNite held up a big mirror to me, with the “Confessional” art installation. Looking at my own ending, I am considering all
of the options, just in case I have missed one or there is a better one out
there. Raised as an Episcopalian earlier in
life, every church service had a “blanket one size fits all” confession that
was required. The priest absolved us all in mass and
then we marched to the alter for bread and wine….“poof” forgiven....we were good
for another week. Never questioned…just
did it…attempting to appear pious and penitent as I turned from the alter to face the congregation returning to the family pew. As I look at the religion
that I perhaps have the most experience with, which would be the easiest to
step back into, my common sense revolts! A quick overview screams "WHAT"??? We humans were created
by an omnipotent God that included sin, a.k.a. free will, as part of our “original programming”. Then were kicked out of “the perfect
garden of Eden” God created because they exercised the free will he gave them...WHAT? Later when this entire free will thing just continues to go down hill, he…. that same omnipotent God, impregnates an innocent earth woman to give birth to himself
so he can die a horrible death that somehow absolves us from that very same free will/sin and then rises from the dead to go back to where he came from. All of this is to promote love, kindness, forgiveness?
The one thing most religions seem to have in common is they begin with the well-worn “once upon a time, long long ago, in a land far far away” and include many fairy tale-ish magic, mythical demons, monsters, and of course an equal compliment of hero good guys. This particular religious story is unbelievably convoluted! If you repeated a story like this, claiming it happened recently, I suspect they would give you free room and board in the nearest “rubber room”.
The one thing most religions seem to have in common is they begin with the well-worn “once upon a time, long long ago, in a land far far away” and include many fairy tale-ish magic, mythical demons, monsters, and of course an equal compliment of hero good guys. This particular religious story is unbelievably convoluted! If you repeated a story like this, claiming it happened recently, I suspect they would give you free room and board in the nearest “rubber room”.
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