RELIGION VS NO RELIGION

So if you don’t believe in God then you must believe in the Devil

This is the kind of crap you hear all the time coming from religious people. They fail to understand that if there is a doubt as to the existence of a Supreme Being, a Creator then there would be twice as much doubt as to the existence of an evil force that they fabricated.

They can’t help themselves, they have to talk about how much faith they have, how wonderful it is to have Jesus in their lives, and how much at a loss you are in if you don’t accept Jesus as your savior.

Again, they fail to understand that whoever Jesus was, I am certain that he was not what they think he was. Perhaps with the passing of the years the stories got exaggerated, became the centerpiece of a power and greed movement and the Western world bought into it blindly and continue to do so. How much of it is true and how much of it is fabricated nobody knows and the ones who have the answers are not willing to tell and take the food away from their tables, privilege and wealth that affords them a lofty life. 

 Clearly most of us grow up in a religion that becomes our own, so how do you become an atheist? Or an agnostic? Is this the result of an evil force trying to lead humans in an erroneous path? Many people tell stories of having a religion and through rational thought, life experiences, and personal journeys come to the conclusion that they don’t have a religion.

Most agnostics don’t disagree with the possibility that there could be a god. There is actually an religious scale from 1-7. One being a theist, you 100% believe in a god. Two means you are almost certain there is a god, and live your life as if there is one. Three is just higher than 50%, you’re not sure, and technically still an agonistic. Four is 50%; their existence is equal to their non existence. Five are skeptics, there’s less than a 50% chance. Six is atheist, but you can never be sure, and will live life as there is not one. And seven believes there is no god. They said most people fall between three and five.

My take on religion is a little different; I think that because we have very limited intelligence we have no way of assuring that there is a god or that there isn’t one, particularly since the perennial question of “where do we come from” and “who created all this” or “is there life after death?” All these only serve to muddy and confuse the issue even more.

But I will tell you this: just because I don’t have an answer it doesn’t mean that I am going to go looking for one and once I found one that is to my liking I will embrace it and call it faith. I realize full well that the outlandish explanations, myths, dogma and ideology is nothing more than fabricated fairy tales even more unbelievable than the possible explanation itself.

Then there are those that practice a form of idolatry. They do this with an object called “THE BIBLE” and it becomes the center of all their attention and worship. The Scriptures that supposedly were translated and translated, changed, omitted and embellished survive today in the form of a book these people worship…leaving out, behind and excluding the intentional recipient of their worship: THE CREATOR GOD.

SOURCE: http://noellehorelik.wordpress.com/page/4/