Sunday, February 10, 2008

Theology

Yes, the talk about god. This post is either really brave or very very stupid and my mom is going to chew off my ear.... but I am depressed and yet enlightened, so I shall make my statement and this is the last of it. No more evangelists!

I DO NOT BELIEVE IN RELIGION.

To be more specific, I don't believe in christianity, judiasm, [insert all institutionalised religions here]. Why ?

TODAY I SAW GOD.

And how ? I saw god in the emails of concern that friends sent me. I felt god on my mobile phone when I messaged my mom. I heard god on the handset that rang at 3am in the morning, because someone in Canada panicked and thought I was going to 'do myself in'.

Now thats god for you. This eureka moment came as I huddled in bed reciting the anglican lord's prayer . Not because I was actually repenting of anything. It just reminded me of home and a simpler time in my life where you can forget about everything since a higher power can push a big red button and everything will be fine.

I was taught that renouncing my faith and its exact tenets of not liking the name JESUS would put me immediately in hell. Swearing 'Holy Cow' is another thing that would install me in the fiery pits.

OHHHH IF YOU DONT CALL IT THE SAME AS WE DO, YOU ARE A SINNER.
What happens if I decided to call god a nickname ? Say, Eugene ? Who is to say that god doesn't like being called Euge ? Why is my mental imprint of institutionalised 'god' white when he really should be brown?

Bollocks. It is possible that this feeling of submission to the fates is called contrition by a portion of the world. Who has the right to call it that though ? Not that its wrong. In my case my writing on a blog, is described by religion as confession.

Stop getting pissed. Take for example, the theory that we all see colours uniquely. No one can prove green in a specific shade looks the same for everyone else. This is simply because of the infinite ways each one of us processes stimuli. So we all agree to call it green as a ballpark estimate, but really, it could be greener for me and less green for you. Depends on your spectrum.

What is 'god' . For me its a noun for the feeling you get when you have a random call at 3am in the morning telling you everything is going to be fine.

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