Straight out of the gate, I don't believe in religion, I don't believe in God, not Heaven, not Hell, not Creationism or the like. I'm not sure how many religious friends I have, because frankly I don't care if you believe in god or not, but please understand you are wrong. Here I'm going to go write why religion is wrong, why god is wrong, and how so many stories are dumb and wrong!
First off, apparently when writing the word god, G has to be a capital (Like what I did in the first line), however the word god is going to mentioned quite a bit and I'm not wasting my time having to hold down the shift key while pressing G just to satisfy some fictional character. If it was Senoire Butterpants or McRaiseDaRoof, I would be more than happy to properly use capital letters.
So where to begin? Basically this whole topic is very 'tread lightly', because people are very passionate about their beliefs, whichever way it is. I think I read somewhere (Can't source it because I think was aimlessly browsing one day) the percentage of religious people around the world, and in Australia it is like 20% believe in god, and in America it is over 50%. So as a country, god isn't sitting too high up, however a few decades ago I think it would have been much higher.
Ever since I was about 7 or 8, I have asked this one question, "If god created everything, who created god?" To which the answer was, "God created himself" or "God was always here" I'm not a physicist (Although I have watched every Big Bang Theory episode up to date 10x over, so I should be pretty smart by now) so I'm not sure exactly how the Big Bang occurred. What I retain from high school is there was a big bang out of gases which created the Universe. Now, this is where it gets tricky, religious people argue saying 'Oh the big bang theory is flawed because how can a explosion happen from nothing....' Hmm sounds familiar religious people? How can an all-powerful being just create himself, then go on to create everything else?
So there was a big bang, that spilled out gases which then formed planets and moons, stars and suns and black holes and all that astro-space-Universe stuff. I think I need another marathon of BBT to brush up on my science, but anyways....
Religious people (Just so you know, when I say religious people, it means comments, articles, discussions and that on the topic, so a lot of the time (99.99%) I don't know these religious, I just read what they write) say sometimes that how could us as humans just magically be able to live on Earth with it's oxygen, atmospheric pressure and that, god must of made us like that'
If anything that type of statement helps support evolution, because basically they are helping us carve in stone that we are here through thousands-upon-thousands of years of trial-and-error I guess. I don't know the exact amount of years, but the Earth is somewhere around 2 billion years old? Give or take 2-3 years. Dinosaurs died out 65 million years, and we arrived a long time after them, which is helpful. I could just Google this information but I want to keep this raw information presented here.
Charles Darwin noticed evolution in the islands and it had to do with bird's and their beaks. Again, with no Google aid, I can remember he noticed the same general type of bird but had different shape beaks to obtain their source of food. Over time the birds (Most likely over thousands of years, millions perhaps) that these changes occurred, and I think the term is called 'Natural Selection'
Back onto god and the stuff he does.....
God created everything, god has a reason for every single thing that happen and when we touch ourselves at night it makes Jesus cry, okay!
Let's address the second point, and let's use some events in the last 5 years shall we? So this god fella controls everything in this world, and he has a reason for everything he does. Although this occurred more than 5 years ago, this event made me question the existence of god so much more, and pretty much cemented me into believing their was no god. I want to know what was god's reason in taking my mum away? Why on Earth would a 'god' take away the most devoted, loving, caring, amazing mother away from her 6 children, 3 of which were <18 of years, one being not even a teenager at the time? This just doesn't happen to our family, but families everywhere. You hear on the news about a mother and father dying, and their 2 kids being basically orphans, which is always sad to hear. You say something like 'Yep no god' and suddenly religious people ark up and say 'It is all apart of god's plan' What plan? What is this plan of his you always talk about and seem to use as an excuse for every bad thing he does? So it's his plan to have a 7 year old and 10 year old without their loving parents?
When I think of some major disasters in the last few years, I think of the Black Saturday bush fires, Queensland Flooding, the disaster in New Zealand and of course the major disaster in Japan. Japan's earthquake has claimed 10,000 odd lives, well that includes missing, I haven't been keeping up to date with this. So what's god's plan there taking the lives of 10,000 people in one of the worst natural disasters in recent times? Not only has 10,000 has had their life taken away, but I presume millions have had their life adversely affected, whether it's their home being destroyed, their business' going under (Excuse the pun), cars/boats being swept away, the emotional distress caused by it and so on.
Black Saturday, a few hundred (If I remember correctly, good chance I don't) lost their lives, and many more lost their homes. What kind of god would allow a human being to be taken away in a major bushfire? Yes you don't actually die from the fire, but from the lack of oxygen in the area, but that is still a bad way to go. What kind of plan is that? I'm glad the plans I work on are of buildings, because least I can justify my plans.
We think back to 2001, and what is the first thing you usually think of? 9/11, New York, Twin Towers, Plane Crashes. I won't go too far into this because of conspiracy theories like how it was the US government, or no no it was Muslim terrorist, etc etc. I don't know why exactly Muslim's attacked America, but the Muslim people are very, VERY, religious people. I don't exactly know their religion, for obvious reasons, but I think if they perform attacks like 9/11, they will be awarded by their god (Remember every religion has their own god, but again that's a whole new blog). So it is very much possible that the 9/11 attacks was caused by religious disputes, and this can be upsetting that thousands of people died because of religious belief. I heard/read somewhere that many wars throughout history (Not just the World Wars, but many before them) were started because of different religious beliefs.
Now let's question a story in the bible....
I haven't read the bible, nor do I plan on doing so, ever, so what I'm going off is what I've heard, watched on TV or on YouTube. If anyone has seen Jim Jefferies, this is going to sound very familiar because basically this man has summed up all my religious beliefs and made it funny. In fact I will provide a link at the end of his YouTube clip of his stand up...
Noah and the Ark. So apparently this guy built an ark because the world was going to flood, and he had two of every animal. Okay, let's start from the start and work our way along this, uhh, story. He built the ark in the Middle East somewhere, yeah? Okay, now if I know my geography, not every Continent is connected to the one with the Middle East, so that would mean animals such as those native to Australia like kangaroos, kolas and so on, plus other exotic foreign animals would had to have swam to the Middle East to board this ark. Now I could be wrong but I think kangaroos would struggle to swim from Australia to the Middle East, unless what happened was every single kangaroo headed for the Middle East and as the swim progressed, some died and the remaining used them to construct some kind of weird kangaroo boat and floated to the Middle East (Despite having no sense of direction) then once they got their, Noah picked a girl and a boy to board, and gave the rest to the lions for food.
Okay, so animals swam there, flew, walked, hopped, blah blah. From what I can gather, the Middle East is a pretty hot, dry climate, which suits many animals, but what about polar bears and cold blooded animals? How would Noah, remembering this is thousands of years ago, kept these cold, but also keep the warm blooded animals warm at the same time?
What about the food? Lions eat tonnes of meat a year, and zebra, gazelles and buffalo seem to be their choice of food. So only having two of every animal, how would he satisfy the carnivore's diet with jeopardising his overall objective? Hmm so many questions to ponder.
Well in the title I put Pt 1 (Meaning Part 1) for a reason, because the religion topic can't be discussed in one blog, I wouldn't be surprised if this topic goes for 6 parts. Now because I live in Australia, I am entitled to my opinion, and I'm 100% there will be at least 2 people out there that do not agree with what I have said so far, but this is what I believe and I am allowed to express my beliefs. Yes you may call me an idiot, yes you may say I will be punished by the lord, say what you will about me, that is perfectly fair, because so far I have given the religious group a bit of flack.
I will continue at a later date on the controversial topic of religion, and will end up proving this god fella is just like Seniore Butterpants....
B t w, here is Jim Jefferies.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZJ-_OTvsqo [WARNING: High levels of swear words]
From The One They Call Anthony, This Is The Life & Times
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