Just thinking aloud...

So, do you pray to God on Sunday? Yes, I'm sure you do. You do know that Sunday (or the Sabbath day) is His day off, right?

How would you like it if every one that prayed to your god prayed to you on your day off as well? That would be every Jew, every Christian, and every Muslim. That's a lot of wasted energy, because God surely isn't listening. It is His day off after all.

Another two cents:

I got to thinking for a bit waiting for the bus. I thought about Genesis and all its creation stories and what not. And I came to one conclusion: It is the only purely human creation contained within any bible. It is the only book in which I believe if this god truly exists, did not have any hand in. I just don't see a god laying down creation of the universe so simply like that, because in all honesty if this god is out there, it's not quite done creating yet.

I figure this because this book stresses divinity of this creation and in turn divinity of man, something I think this god truly isn't partial to. No god would stress divinity of its creation, only its creation would stress the fact that were a part of the divine creation. With this I'd like to go to the Creationism Museum and present this, and a little game called Spore to people there. While I know that they would like to dispute this, I'm not there to dispute the rest of the Bible, I'm just there to present findings and what I see to be proof of the findings.

Plus, this book has all the answers in a time where there were no answers, it's self-explanatory.

On Spore, I would like to say that the game stresses the importance of an intelligent designer in evolution. I'm not certain this is true or not, but it sure is a good little piece of pie to chew on for awhile. I think that if any god were to create a universe, because it could, it would create that universe and make the possibility of life a reality. Over time it'd watch the evolution going on, maybe pushing a species ahead or pulling one back with mass catastrophe, but it wouldn't be the one to create sentient beings right off the bat. It would have the patience to wait. Wait until sentient beings came to be and then attempt to teach them to live in peace if they hadn't done it on their own already. We hadn't, and still haven't, so who knows if he's done or not.

Revelation, I think, though could have been inspired by this god, that is why I don't think that book is purely human creation, though a lot of it is. That's what I mean by 'not done yet' this god dictated to people what it was going to do because it saw no point in trying to teach us to live peacefully. As many Gandhis, Siddhartha Gautamas, Martin Luther King Jrs and peacemakers alike live, this god has seen us as killers of the peacemakers (citing Gandhi and MLK Jr.). It's all up to debate, but that's what I think.

Also, I think the Ten Commandments are a very human creation. My moral standards are better than those ten pieces of stupid advice. But if it is truly 'God's Word,' then I'll point some things out.

As you know I'm Henotheistic, well, so is God. He says, "You shall have no other gods before Me." Well? He isn't saying 'there are no other gods, so worship only me' He's acknowledging that there is other gods out there and that you should only worship Him. Also, in that he is not saying you can't worship them, He's just saying don't worship them 'before Me.' So in all honesty, He's not saying that you can't worship other gods, just that He's the top dog. Remind you of Zeus, or Krishna, or Vishnu? Supreme gods? Yeah, God just wants to be on top. But this one is at odds with one of the Five Pillars of Islam, which states There is but one God, Allah, and his prophet is Muhammad. Truthfully, Islam is a pure monotheism with that.

Second, "You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth." We've been doing that all throughout history, he didn't say that to me, at all. Yes, these images may have been for teaching the Bible to illiterate masses, but a lot of the representations of all the things listed are in all art. And there's nothing anyone can do about it. This to me is enough confirmation that Christian people don't follow their own Commandments (even though these are Jewish).

Third, "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain." God dammit. Well? Where's the fire and brimstone we've all been promised? This one is just people afraid of a little language. These people like their 'tongues' as well, and who knows if they're actually saying something they shouldn't be saying or not? No one? Didn't think so.

Forth, "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy" This one comes from the bullshit in Genesis where god rested on the seventh day because it's just sooooo hard to create a universe. This is people who want a day off. That's all.

Fifth, "Honor your father and your mother." This one is nice, especially in the fact that it's not solely patriarchal. But it really isn't a commandment, or a law or anything, this is just something that you should instinctively do and usually instinctively do anyways.

Sixth, "You shall not murder." Bam! Finally a law! Wow, took you a lot of thought to get up to this point didn't it? Yeah. Well... I think this is one of two actual laws in this these commandments that are so full of stupid. But in all truth, sentient beings usually come to this consensus without religion to tell them.

Seventh, "You shall not commit adultery." Happens, no fire and brimstone yet. This one is just plain stupid. Humans fuck, there's no way to get around that. It's part of your lowest instincts. Now I admit it's a dick thing to do, but it's not as sinful as people like to say it is.

Eighth, "You shall not steal." Hey! The other actual law! This is a no brainer, stealing is a hassle. Hammurabi made sure of that. We don't need these Commandments to tell us that stealing is bad, we have laws that are set in even more solid stone to tell us it's stupid.

Ninth, "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor." This is just a good piece of advice. You have to be a real asshat to bear false witness, and you actually deserve Hell for this one. It's also illegal without this to tell us that it should be.

And tenth, "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.' This one is basically no envy. Envy isn't bad though, it can be stupid, but it isn't sinful to want that Maserati in you're neighbor's driveway, just see number eight and keep these thoughts to yourself.

But yeah, this is a lot of human stuff that is outdated today and forsaking crimes against humanity. It either needs to be thrown out, or updated. So, God, update!

If I end up being completely wrong about everything when I die, the only request I'll have is a short chat with God to ask him some pressing questions about things I want to know. But either way, I'm contented.

So, I just watched 'Jesus Camp.'

It's a documentary about extremist fundamental Evangelicals, and it is full of a lot of laughs, and a lot of stupid.

Now, I'm a Henotheist myself, and partial to the god I've devised myself, but still I don't really like to deny the existence of the others (mainly the Judeo-Christian-Muslim god [Yahweh, God, Allah, all the same god, different name]) because I just don't know (I admit it would be nice if it was mine who existed). But yeah, I don't like it when they preach their beliefs (especially to me) in such a contradictory way (watch the movie and you'll see how if you know anything about Christianity). They're exactly like extremist Muslims in their way of teaching, all gung ho about 'laying down their life' for their 'cause.' Usually the Christian cause isn't so damned stupid (citing Palestinian asshattery for the past five decades. Did they learn anything from Gandhi and MLK Jr.?).

Enough of that. My opinion on that may come at a later time.

This isn't a review on Jesus Camp, because I filed it under 'Comedy' because I found it so funny. This is just a little on the stupid that is extremist fundamentalist Evangelicalism.

First off, because I really want to say this to a host of Evangelicals:

"Do you know whether or not that abortion is God's way of denying the lives of people he thinks aren't worthy to live? I don't, but do you? Do you know whether or not He wants them there by His side immediately instead of being here on this rather divided Earth? Do you? Because I don't, and yet it seems to be the most logical answer to abortion to me."

I think that would be both a comical, and serious question, because I want to know what they would really respond to that with.

Anyways, in Jesus Camp, one of the guys said that when Evangelicals vote, they 'decide the election.' Yeah, right. Why isn't McCain president-elect then? Pfft, it is the young voters and non-voters that decide the election, especially this time around. Because as religious as Obama is, he is not Evangelical, and he is not extremist (but Palin was, a hee hee! And where is she now? Grabbing at any little thing that will keep her in the news and trying to solidify herself as the 2012 front runner for the Republican party... Yeah, right). Eh, that was tangential... Yeah, Obama did not get a lot of the Evangelical vote, mainly because of that big red reverse 'L' in the election results map and the low numbers in those states. My point? It was the young, (hopefully) mostly subjective (religious) people that decided this latest election.

Also, I'd like to point out something I saw in a Survivor show. It was, I think, the season opener of Survivor: China, and they were asking for enlightenment in a Buddhist temple. One of the contestants on that deplorable show was a Christian radio host. I'm sure she wasn't extremest or anything, and if I remember right, she was voted off the second or third time. But yeah, she said after she had left the temple before the prayer was over and they showed one of those private camera clips of her and she said something like this, "One of the ten Commandments says 'you shall not bow to any god before me' and that's what I was doing" or something amazingly stupid like that. I wanted to just punch her. Siddhartha Gautama is NOT, I repeat, NOT a god. He was a man who had reached ultimate Nirvana (no, not that band), the ultimate enlightenment. He was more a teacher than anything. And also, there is definitely more than ONE Buddha! Also, Buddhism is more philosophy that religion for all you dumbshits out there. Also, I heard that some Buddhist scholars were teaching that Jesus and Siddhartha were friends. Hey! That's a concept you fucking Evangelicals! Think about that!

That brings me into something about Islam, I have seen frescoes, mosaics, and painting depicting Jesus and Muhammad (and once Moses there too) riding side by side as if they were homies. There's another concept! Traditionally, even though Saul of Tarsus opened Christianity to anyone and everyone, Islam and its Muslims have been a lot more accepting over the lat one and a half millennia. Usually it had to do with the fact that Muslims didn't have to pay taxes, so they needed a tax base, but still there was tolerance, something that didn't happen much in early Christianities (yes, in the beginning of Christianity, Christianity was plural because there was more than one 'official' doctrine practiced throughout the Mediterranean world). Also, both Moses and Jesus are considered Islamic prophets, just nowhere near as important as Muhammad, whose bit was that he revealed the 'final truth' of God's (Allah's, their name for God) word. Which if you've heard of that Israeli site which breaks down the Qur'an to its most fundamental and best teachings, would realize that Islam is just as good as Christianity, and in some places, much better.

Okay, enough of the Humanities... One things that really tweaks my melon is the fact that children are used as tools, and are melded and indoctrinated as if they are cattle. This doesn't just happen in fundamentalist, extremist Evangelicals, but in extremist Muslims and in places where a quick soldier is needed (especially in rebel African, and South American groups). I say, teach your children, but don't indoctrinate them, it's brainwashing. Let them grow up and decide the path they want to take. Let them decide if they want to be stupid creationists or stupid natural selectionists or stupid Republicans or stupid Democrats. Don't turn them into Christians, let them decide.

I'm not glad that this Jesus camp thing closed down to find a 'more secure' location for their camp so stupid vandals and atheist retards won't harm them. I'd like to learn Latin, find a Latin Bible and preach to them how it was done for a thousand years. Because they are indeed, the very much so uneducated masses.

That's my two cents for now. I rant a lot about religion, because it's fun.