Monday, March 26, 2007
Faith
For the last 7 years I have avoided the topics of religion and faith except in a very superficial sense on this site. Although, for those who know me in reality they know that this is a very important topic to me. I was raised roman catholic so religion is a very controversial issue in my family.
I've known I was an Atheist for almost half of my life now. At first I was probably attracted to it because of my tendency to distrust authority and tradition. It became hardened as I lost faith in mankind and the leaders of men who claimed to do God's work when all they really did was preach hate, racism, militarism, nationalism, and supremacy of their own religion. Manson, sums it up with, "I never really hated one true God, but the God of the people I hated".
Since moving back from England though, my sister married into a Baptist Family of really good people. I have also become very good friends with a Mormon. These are good people to their core's and I never expected to respect and trust people so full of Faith. In fact, when it comes down to it, we have a lot of the same goals and hopes for humanity, we just have different motivation for wanting them.
This inspired me to think about what actually makes us so different and I determined it comes down to Faith. Simply, I have none, people of Faith speak of feeling the supernatural and of their love and trust in humanity. I simply do not have either. I have learned to depend on myself. When I need something I set a goal and I take care of it myself. I do not need to involve a higher power.
With this established, I started thinking about what caused this divide where 90% of the population has some kind of Faith, and where so few have none. I started by thinking about the phrase, "Our Father's our are models for God". However the more I considered it the more I realized it wasn't just one person, I admittedly have a very low opinion of people in general. One of the tenants I live by is, "Expect nothing and you will never be disappointed" Teddy Roosevelt. Ultimately what I came up with is Faith is an expression of trust in mankind and lacking that, I have no Faith which is what the new rant I posted, "On Faith" is all about.
Back to the usual, I have finished reading and practicing for the 293 exam and have started working on study guides my goal is to take the test Thursday morning, after that I will have just one more to go.
This weekend I am going to Stockton, I am looking forward to it, Tory is getting married.
I saw Pan's Labyrinth. Yes it is as wonderful as everyone says it is, go see it. The story and the effects were great, and I liked the theme of confronting Fascism.
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I've known I was an Atheist for almost half of my life now. At first I was probably attracted to it because of my tendency to distrust authority and tradition. It became hardened as I lost faith in mankind and the leaders of men who claimed to do God's work when all they really did was preach hate, racism, militarism, nationalism, and supremacy of their own religion. Manson, sums it up with, "I never really hated one true God, but the God of the people I hated".
Since moving back from England though, my sister married into a Baptist Family of really good people. I have also become very good friends with a Mormon. These are good people to their core's and I never expected to respect and trust people so full of Faith. In fact, when it comes down to it, we have a lot of the same goals and hopes for humanity, we just have different motivation for wanting them.
This inspired me to think about what actually makes us so different and I determined it comes down to Faith. Simply, I have none, people of Faith speak of feeling the supernatural and of their love and trust in humanity. I simply do not have either. I have learned to depend on myself. When I need something I set a goal and I take care of it myself. I do not need to involve a higher power.
With this established, I started thinking about what caused this divide where 90% of the population has some kind of Faith, and where so few have none. I started by thinking about the phrase, "Our Father's our are models for God". However the more I considered it the more I realized it wasn't just one person, I admittedly have a very low opinion of people in general. One of the tenants I live by is, "Expect nothing and you will never be disappointed" Teddy Roosevelt. Ultimately what I came up with is Faith is an expression of trust in mankind and lacking that, I have no Faith which is what the new rant I posted, "On Faith" is all about.
Back to the usual, I have finished reading and practicing for the 293 exam and have started working on study guides my goal is to take the test Thursday morning, after that I will have just one more to go.
This weekend I am going to Stockton, I am looking forward to it, Tory is getting married.
I saw Pan's Labyrinth. Yes it is as wonderful as everyone says it is, go see it. The story and the effects were great, and I liked the theme of confronting Fascism.
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