Praying to God for Election Day
I am not an internet junkie. At least, I don't think I am. I also don't own a TV, I get my news from
here. So I don't watch Fox, or MSNBC, or CNN. A few years ago I realized that it was not Hard Journalism, but instead, Entertainment News. I finally signed up to this
little internet nugget. Oh my, who are these people who have been elected by the american people?
So, reading that a few senators actually spouted that pregnancy from Rape is "Gods Will", and then to say, that if it's a legitimate rape, the pregnancy will terminate, cause as we all know that a woman's body has ways of shutting that whole thing down, I have some concerns.
Almost half of the country is backing the thinking of people who think science is evil and that an invisible powerful man in the sky is going to watch over them and protect them from harm. (
Well, maybe even less after reading this article)
That's a lot of people, who truly believe things like God hates fags, or God sends the souls of dead babies to hell because they haven't been baptized, or black people have pacts with satan. Half! Half of them truly believe that if they perform some ancient magical ritual it will protect them from bad things. Who are these people? Generally, they are rapist and pillagers, they loot the land, work the people and ravage the women. Do half of the american population believe that if they vote for these "Godly Men" somehow they'll be able to catch a few coins that slip out of their pockets? I imagine so. I can't help but think of all those people as well, morons.
What has these religions brought us? Tolerance? The Churches are even slower in change than politicians. Respect for mankind? How many wars have been fought in the name of God? Has it made a positive impact on people's lives? Yes, but it also has had negative impacts. Can you be a good person without religion? Yes.
I'm at a point where I can't even write anything, cause my mind is racing with so many angry thoughts. I cannot express enough how much I think Religion is totally useless, senseless and utterly moronic. However it is obvious that many millions of people want to live in a dream world where a magic man in the sky controls everything that happens in their lives. No wonder they don't care who they elect as their leaders. Their God will save them in the end, God will make the stock market crash, or recover, it's all Gods will.
I really can'y wait until these old, white nitwits with their idea that the fifties was the best era ever, die. Maybe that old, racist, narrow minded, misogynistic culture will die with it.
If there is a magic man in the sky, I pray he takes a closer look at the people who supposedly speak on his behalf.
Labels: America, Creationism, Democracy, God, Lazy People, Religion, Rights, war
Creationism, ID, and The Theory of Evolution
So, what bothers me most about Creationism, Intelligent Design, and what it's called now, Teaching the Controversy is that people who teach it as a science use unscientific means of proving so called facts. I have never faulted anyone for having faith. I am a fairly spiritual person, (Spiritual, not religious) and I can make pretty dramatic leaps of faith when it comes to understanding the world around me. For example, I believe that the Holy Catholic Bible has many stories in it which have very real, and very relevant guidelines on living a good life and being a good human being, it also attempts to answer questions on the origin on life. (It has also been proven, that this very Bible, was edited, many many times, as many Holy Scriptures were left out because of conflicting viewpoints or stories those priests way back when decided, didn't fit with their image of God.) Thousands of years ago, where there was no modern science to help understand the world around us, people used stories, metaphors, and supernatural beings to explain why the world worked the way it did. We didn't know then what we know now, and I'm not saying that all that knowledge of the past is moot, but I do find it rather primitive minded to deny things we can prove, and do prove, on a daily basis. It seems to me that those who wish to believe that Creationism, or Intelligent Design is in fact the truth, would simply have to shift their way of thinking, just a little bit. Maybe God created evolution, church goers are always told that God is everywhere and that God made all things, so maybe, just maybe, God did make everything, he just didn't make it all at once. Maybe he set into motion, the building blocks of life that would eventually produce, us, Humans in his own image. Maybe.
The second problem I have with Intelligent Design is that people actually believe this conflicting 'science' should be taught in schools right next to regular science, and we can let the children decide what they believe. Unfortunately, the majority of students are idiots, I was an idiot in high school, I thought I knew everything and nobody could tell me better, it's part of the maturing process as we let go of our ego-centric behavior and realize that we are not the most important thing in the universe. To me that's like saying, "Okay in this version of math, 1+1=2, but we are going to teach an alternative math where we can show you that 1+1=3, and we will let you, the students, decided which you prefer." Banks would never go for this, as I would bring in all my loonies two by two, and make a mega profit by simple addition.
The third problem I have with Intelligent Design is that it requires you to take things based on the word of another person, not research they have done, or not done, in many cases, and we are to take it as fact. While the church behind intelligent design, recognizes that they have erred many times, for example the fact that the world was flat and that everything revolved around the earth was recognized as incorrect, albeit many many years after this theory was able to be proved.
Religion, in my opinion, originated as a way to control people, but I recognize that my opinion cannot be proven. Religion has been proven, to enrich peoples lives by adding a spiritual element. But why should that interfere with our quest for knowledge. I don't see a conflict with science and say, the 10 commandments. Because those commandments regulate how decent a human being we are, but it does not regulate learning, nor does it conflict with evolution.
And there is my thoughts for the day...
Labels: Creationism, God, ID, Religion, Teaching the Controversy, Theory of Evolution
