Monday June 8, 2009

Subject: My philosophy on spirituality

I have my own beliefs on the universe...I believe in a God, but I don't think our primitive minds can comprehend just what God is. I think maybe it's more a force (as described in the Tao Te Ching).

My favorite religious texts are Taoist...I love contradictions and thought provocation. I don't want to have to memorize allegories and names. I've read many religious texts (the Bible, Koran, Old Testament, etc.) and think many of them are just kinda childish. They describe invisible men with as many foibles as the human characters.

Churches love conflict between religious factions, too...if there were harmony, some of your parishioners might go give money to someone else, huh? Gotta drive that "one true God" thing home time and time again, huh? It's pathetic and hilarious to me.

All religions pray to the same God. They just have different names for him and have attributed different actions and opinions to him. If you really think God is going to send people to hell for worshiping a deity in the wrong way, you're a moron. That they gave their lives piously to the universe is enough.

God is, to me, the balance that comes from all this chaos. It is the harmonious unification of dissonant forces. It's not an old man on a throne. That's what our pea brains thought up because...everything "intelligent" has to look like us, right? We are the abyss attempting to gaze back into God, and we have attempted to make Him in our image, not the other way around.