religion is death insurance
in my pov
20 years ago I stepped into traffic in front of cars to carry a frightened dog that so many people took the time to blow their horn at as they tried to scare it from being in their way so they could get to that most important place instead of stopping.
If someone breaks down at the traffic light, instead of blowing my horn I pull to the side of the road and help them push the car out of traffic lanes and shake my head in bafflement of those who are so self absorbed they would rather put more stress and pressure on someone in need.
I pull off the road when I see someone with a flat and no apparent means of changing it and offer assistance, out of gas, get in the truck/car and I will drive you to get gas and bring you back with your can of gas and make sure you get your vehicle started before I leave.
I give my tithe to those on the side of the road who live in the woods, car, truck or below an underpass. Some change or a couple of dollars might feed them, those with them, give them some gas to get where they need, or they might spend it on something to drink which is their choice to make. I hope it is for something positive to help them but it is their choice because at that point I have done what I can for them at that specific the moment. If I can or find a way to do more I will.
I've my son who is serving in the USCG for a year now and is just 18, my daughter who is 8 and
another son who is 18 that has enlisted in the USAF that heads to basic in August, his name is Chris. He is my son by choice not birth, we are his parents by choice in his opinion and heart. His Father is in prison because of drug trafficking and his mother spent time in prison for stealing the life savings of an elderly man she was a home nurse for. Chris was taken into a families home, a good family from all accounts. The father was a Boyscout Leader, Baseball and Soccer Coach, while also working his business supplying Restaurants he also is one of the leaders at their church. His wife is running the house and also a school teacher at the church. Chris first got high when he was 10 years old, at 12 his father was taking him around with him on drug deals and feeding him Valium, smoking dew and drinking beer. By 13 he had him snorting cocaine, blacking out from being drunk, 13 1/2 he had a friend give Chris his first tattoo. 14 dad goes to prison, mom goes to prison, gets taken into a very religious home with good intentions. Chris starts skipping school, school does not call, the son of the psudo parents is a life long friend of Chris and he has a friend who's parents travel all the time and they get into the Wet bar on a regular basis, Chris gets a call from his cousin who gives him some valium and they get drunk and down. Family finds this all out after the school calls the house and the boys come home they sit them down and get the whole story. Chris is now evil and is going to be turned over to the state and their birth son is sent to a live in drunk rehab for one month. Chris stays with the state in Juvenile Detention Center(kiddie prison) for a month and gets sent to a large state home where he waits to be put into a foster home. He runs away and my son hears about it and hunts him down and brings him home. That is how my second son came to be, birth by situational cause and effect?
Anyway, my point is this. I am not religious, and I do not know exactly what God is or if there is one, but I do not feel there is a God as depicted by any religious means. I also KNOW for a fact that if there is a God as depicted by religious means, I want nothing to do with them/it. Anything or anyone all powerful who allows the things to happen on this planet as they do is not anything/anyone I want anything to do with. If they were a human being I would not have anything to do with them so why would I bow to them in any other form? (again mpov)
Religion/God, yeah it can be a very positive thing, it can be a very shallow thing no matter how one would argue just how deeply the believe and follow, it can be an extremal destructive thing which history proves out over and over again.
People need to start taking responsibility for their thoughts, feelings and the things they do or do not do across the board and stop dodging them and passing it off to God or Satan. Until they do one of the larger walls standing in front of humanities social evolution is going to block the way. And no I do not mean religion/god, I mean exactly what I say, quit passing the buck of responsibility and assume what one owns.
Oh and get rid of this assumption that one has to have a middle man between them and their god. Seems to me most of the confusion comes about because of the interpreter people put between them and god.
Maybe (None shalt come before me) meant that people shouldn't allow anyone to come between them and God.
Not that any other religion is not real.
Same applies to the one that everyone uses to prove theirs is the one true religion.
Monty Python and Eddie Izzard have some ideas I like
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