Religious offensive.

Seeing as my family and friends do read my blog from time to time and most of my friends and family are devote christians this post might be like commiting blogging harikiri. I hereby accept that some of you will not agree and might not even be particularly impressed. In fact this is so dangerous that I’m not sure that I’m going to even post this.

I am going to challenge religion.

I have always been a Christian. That is born into a Christian family, went to a Christian Church. (Do you get none Christian Churches? ) Christian school. Christian... But I have for the past few years strayed from the flock so to speak. I haven’t converted my religion to another but I haven’t been to church in quite a while. Mainly because of laziness. The explanation I give to the press is that I haven’t found a church worthy of going to. The truth is I have no argument to stand on. I cannot say churches are wrong or that I dont agree with your views because I am not informed enough to make an educated well thought out argument. In other words ,for all I know, I am wrong and you are right. So here is what I am going to do. I am going to study the Bible and I am going to go to church. I am going to other churches to. I will challenge the highest authority of these churches and see what happens. If I find someone can sate my curiosity and convince me of his relation I will do my profession of faith. Something I have not yet done because of my difference of church belief.

Here are some of the problems I am looking in to.

Heaven and hell. What is it? Where is it? How is it? More importantly: How do I not go there? In the days of science there has to be some explanation of space and mass to justify these two places. “You moron. Science has no place in religion” is what you might think no but what I mean about days of science is man’s ability to think open minded – uhm... ly ? I already have a theory but do you ?

The Bible. Who wrote it? Who rewrote it? Who re –re wrote the re write of what was written when? And how can we trust it?

Can a church be open to public opinion? Can we debate a point? Do we believe because it’s convenient? Etc etc.

I am really starting to believe that this whole idea is a bad one...

T_T

3vil

Word spell and grammar check broked and to lazy too do it myself. Another reason to be hung shot and run over by a Golf...

Recent news of the death of a well known terrorist has sparked multiple debates about right and wrong across the globe which in turn got me thinking about the scales of good and evil. A certain scientist insists that evil is the lack of empathy. He further explains that empathy has two forms the first being the ability to identify another persons thoughts and feelings and the second being the ability to correctly respond to those thoughts and feelings.

Who is capable of being evil?

It is commonly accepted that a man who murders another man is evil. We have many literary works prescribing that murder in any form is wrong and we take some of these books (ie Bible) very seriously. If you are in the predisposition to condemn someone for their sins then condemn me too for 

 I am a sinner.

I sometimes wondered what would be written if the bible was continued today.

“Today we shall read a passage from the book of ”Life Ranting junk and stuff” blog 800 verse 2,” And he commenteth “woot!” to the org of piratebay and praised and shared and was jolly. And he warned his followers that before the tweet of the second day he would be betrayed and they shall hide their facebook profiles in shame 0_o ...” 

I would like to run an idea past you, dear reader, that perhaps all sin is evil but not all evil is involves sinning. The Sage on Sinning : Transgressing a moral or divine law. To a terrorist committing an evil act is not transgressing “his”(the terrorist) moral or divine law. Since we are mostly allowed to interpret religious works anyway we want we are basically allowed to do what we want. Lets for a moment consider that religion does not exist. What else can drive a man to commit evil deeds? Greed perhaps. Power? Lust? All of these can be explained by lack of empathy and personal gain but...

Am I evil ?

By logic I have committed many sins and have impure thoughts and ergo I am evil. Just because I dont have sharks with fricking lasers attached to there heads... Their are a few games out there which allows the player to choose his “alignment” (good or evil). Generally I choose good and even when you are forced to choose the evil path it is either justified or evil camouflage. GTA for instance you steal and murder but its for a good cause. There is very rarely genuine evil. This might have influenced my empathy in real life somewhat but there is no real test for it except perhaps video games. It has given me the ability to identify evil or at least the ability to consider the outcome of my actions. Perhaps I should commit being truly evil for a day.

Ie: You are starving. Luckily you have an apple. Woot! Unluckily there is an orphan with abnormally huge brown eyes seemingly starving too. Do you a) Give the apple to the orphan? b) Share the apple with the orphan and gain half the HP c) Kill the orphan with the apple and eat the orphan.

C ! You have gained 1000XP points. Woot !

Then there is argument of degrees of evil. Is it possible to be a little bad and are we allowed to? What evil choices have you made lately?