Christian Please (Difference of Facts is not the same as Difference of Opinion)

Those who have read Bloodlines, have enjoyed it so mission accomplished.  They have also talked about all the Christian/Catholic references in it.  As I stated in my author notes those were put in simply to provide some validity to the background of my story.  I in no way wanted to impose any religious beliefs, or do I at all subscribe to Christianity itself.  I will write other stories that involve Christianity, but not because it is my personal belief of what is the truth behind our universe.  I use them because I use the supernatural in my stories, and I like to have some ground to stand on to make them seem plausible.  Also the devil makes one hell of a bad guy.

But that does not mean that I genuinely believe there is one great father, who decided to send his only son, and then not give a shit for the most part except for the fourth quarter of games Tim Tebow is playing in.  Being a Florida State, fan I am already not inclined to like Tebow.  Him preaching "God is great" on the sidelines of a game were defensive players aim to inflict pain on the opposing team is a little of a distorted perspective to say the least.  Now don't get me wrong, I love football.  I just don't love God.

Not the Yahweh one.  The one Christianity is based around.  I am not an atheist.  I feel an atheist’s argument that since all the current religions are wrong than there must be no god is the equivalent of an astrologist saying that since there is no life on the other planets in the solar system aside from Earth, than there must be no life on other planets in the universe.  Just because everything so far is bullshit, doesn't mean everything is bullshit.  Atheists scold the religious for thinking they could know the answer to what happens to us after we die.  Then they go and answer it themselves.  Hypocrisy is not exclusive to only those of faith.

I feel passionately about my belief as would any religious follower.  What I believe, I feel is the only acceptable faith.  I’m an agnostic.  There is something, but we don’t know.  Call it a cop out, but it is an informed one.  My study of history leaves me to not accept any current faith.  The historiography of all of them are shot, there are missing pages, other sides of the story, bullshit, and also corruption of the men who run them.  Taking any religion seriously word for word by the holiest texts is the surest way to find a moron.  I’m not saying if you believe in Jesus you are a moron, I respect that fully.  And I think he, like Moses, Buddha, Mohammed, may be part of solving this riddle to life beyond death.  But to respect everything in that book is just logically wrong.  The Romans kept what books they wanted and discarded the rest.  Where is the divinity in that?  Even if Jesus is the son of God, the true messiah, his word is not in what Christians call the new testament.  That is the word of Rome circa 4^th century, to keep their people faithful.  (Which by the way once Rome accepted Jesus, they weren’t saved.  They were raped and pillaged by barbarians.)

If there was any religious message I was trying to get out in Bloodlines I guess it was that you can’t take these holy books so sacred—they are not infallible.  The book of Judas might be right.  I really have nothing against religious people, but I respect the ones that say “I believe in but…” That’s good, that shows me you are capable of individual thought, and already there is a chance for me to respect your opinion. But that is not every type of Christian.

There are the Evangelical ones, the Pat Robertsons, who think God punished America in 9/11 for our acceptance of gays because of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.  These people are loaded with so much hate, they look for any type of validation to pour it out.  The ones who feel they are justified to kill an abortion doctor, or the ones who argued for slavery 150 years ago.  These people are not just misguided, they are evil, and yet they are able to find in a holy book their motivation.  I know this doesn’t count for all Christians, but these Christians still count.

Then there are the clueless ones, the dumb ones.  The Tebows, who feel God has nothing better to do than help a bunch of millionaires that work for billionaires play a ball game, while genocide happens every day in some part of this world.  If God does get involved in our lives, he better develop some perspective.  I wouldn’t do that, and I can’t be smarter than God.

There are also those that are afraid.  The sheople.  Or how they like to be called the faithful.  They decide what is right and wrong, not by their own moral compass, but what the Bible tells them.  Or at the least that is the show they put on.  But their sins behind closed doors are viler than anything you might have done in your existence.  The Catholic clergy is a prime example of this one.       

But the worst are the combination of all 3.  They are dumb, they are afraid to go against the church, and they have the hate to go along with anything backed by the church.  Angry, stupid people who are dedicated followers.  Can you think of a worse waste of life?  The people of this ilk are epitomized by the viewpoint of creationism.

Creationism is argued by the people who believe in that this explanation to creation of the universe should be taught in schools alongside evolution.  The difference between creationism and evolution is that creationism has been proven utterly and completely wrong.  After the lesson on creationism what’s covered next—the geocentric model of the universe.  “Children the sun revolves around us.  And day and night tell us which side of the Earth the sun is on, because our planet is also flat.”

With all the countless physical, geographical, evidence out that there were dinosaurs and the world is billions of years old anyone who questions that should not be thought of as religious, has “having faith,” but as over the rainbow fucking crazy.  Sterilize these people.  I have to admit their existence alone does cast some doubt to Darwin’s survival of the fittest theory.  People believe the world is 6000 years old and created in only 6 days.  And we have to respect this? We have to allow this to be taught in school alongside the actual history of our world.  Evolution may not be 100%, but it is 100% that creationism did not happen, so move on.  There are bones of these creatures called dinosaurs.  This has been proven wrong.

Now, I am not saying that these discoveries disprove God.  In fact, I have said for years that the “steps” in Genesis actually follow the actual evidence—first no earth, then earth was just water, than animals than people.  If Christians want to admit that is an analogy and days just meant millions of years they would have a much better argument—I’m sorry, they would actually have an argument—but that is the type of higher thinking organized religion does not allow.  Instead they want people protesting schools about their right to have their belief in creationism taught in schools.  I’m sorry what right is that. The constitution does not say “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit to be an Idiot.”  They have as much right to push for creationism to be taught in school as they do with saying gravity does not exist and Oswald acted alone.  (But JFK is a whole other blog.)

This idea of the world is wrong, it has been proved wrong, move past it.  I respect the difference of faiths, the difference of opinions, but not the difference of facts. 

Political leaders say they are creationists either because it is their own belief or for the votes, but I think anyone who believes this should not be allowed to vote nonetheless hold public office.  You obviously cannot comprehend evidence presented before you.  Christ they shouldn’t even be allowed to be on juries.

But yes, I did just use Christ.

No, I won’t edit it.

I do believe in the guy for something.  I do believe in something.  But we just don’t know what and until we do—if we ever do—we can’t use scripture for the basis of law, morals, or to define the workings of the universe.  If there was any message in Bloodlines, it was to question everything, think for yourself.  In my eyes the Gospel of Judas holds as much validity at the Gospel of Mark.  Either can be wrong, right, or maybe a mixture of both.  If there was a supreme being out there who gave us life, he would want one thing from us.

To think for ourselves.