Long ago, I had a hard time dealing with life. No one really liked to take me for who I was, I didn’t get along with anyone. One night I tried to take my life, I cried, and I as much as I don’t want to talk about or admit at this point cried out “If there is a God, then you have to change my life!” Two weeks later, my parents chose to go to church. I fell asleep in the pew. My mom, knowing my passion and love for music, set me up singing lessons with the pastor’s wife. She continuously invited me to church camp. And begrudgingly, I chose to go, so she would stop asking, and because she seemed to be about the only person who cared about me at that time, at least in my thoughts.
I went to that church camp, I chose to give my life to a religion known as Christianity. Desperate times and coincidences take us to places that perhaps our minds can get carried away with us.
I cannot say there is, or is not any deity. You cannot prove one, nor the other. Therefore it is blank.
Take it from me though. I just began doing a facebook timeline gig, and it’s SCARY, seeing how crazy we get when we aren’t thinking logically, and get taken away with the waves of insanity. No wonder people in cults easily believe everything their leaders say, or sometimes even end up doing a mass suicide.
Religion sometimes starts with coincidences, and baby steps. In a heart that longs for love, it sometimes is our heart’s desperation that conforms the mind to believe “This could be it, this has to be it, this is most certainly more than real.”
Slowly though, sometimes the mind will fight back. And I say thank goodness for that. Slowly, my mind chose more logical decisions. Eventually, I realized everything I was choosing to be a part of was nothing short of insanity, and that was where I was entirely.
I’m going back. Looking at almost every, single, stinking post…And alllll about this crazy God hoopla and what I like to call now in my life, Christianese (due to it sounding like it’s own language of crazy a lot of the time). It makes me SICK, and it is so scary to see what people (myself in the past, included) believe. I fed off of other people of the like. And more than anything, I truly believe it is more a crazy social hypernet rather than a religion with a God who loves you as you worship him with all that you are. In a way, it is like a pyramid scam. There is a product, but the purpose that no one in the scam likes to face or admit is that, there are people under them, and more people joining in, not really based on the actual selling of the product, just people joining in. However, the product is talked about and brought to hype settings that way it still seems to be the core purpose. Reality and intelligence says that is false.
Everything is selfish in it too, on that note. I passed a sign driving back to visit my family. It said “He saves his people who seek him”. As in Jesus. What about the people in whom are not defined as “his people” in today’s christian terms? I mean…if you look in the Bible…isn’t it the lost people Jesus came for? Isn’t technically all the world are sheep, and he goes back to save the lost ones? Meaning that he is to be a shepherd. And shepherds are to guide their sheep, keeping them together. If one disappears, the shepherd goes to find them. You never hear about a sheep trying to look for it’s shepherd, and that would of course defeat the purpose of shepherding. So really isn’t it supposed to be God seeking us anyways? And how is that to ever come to be? So maybe christianity throughout the ages has come to a point of all of these twists and turns adapted into what it is today to make it slightly more “answer-baring”, so more people can fall into the new beliefs of it all.
Looking into religion too deeply in any circumstance is a little too much in any case, as far as what seems to meet the eye. Even in the muslim religion, we’ve seen people killing their own lives and the lives of others in the process of doing something in the namesake of their version of who this God may be to them.
To me…God was always the only one I had and the best friend I had.
In the end, I think it was myself just making some excuse to cope with being alone combined with just living in a world where Santa Claus is real, metaphorically speaking that is. It’s all childish. The St. Nick here being God of course. It all sounds so good and wonderful, but in all of it’s reality…it’s something not so true after all so it seems. Christians hate to see that Santa takes all the credit around the holiday season. But it’s actually clear to see that this God and Santa have a lot more in common than what everyone seems to think. All baring something wonderful, when in reality…people are what make that lie a truth to all of those who believe, children especially easily believe. But I guess eventually, we all grow up.