CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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Religion, the Exclusive Road to Optimism

Thursday, May 25, 2006

this entry brought to you by gnarls barkley, "crazy"


For some reason, religion has decided that it has exclusive rights, as I've said before, to spirituality, but also to optimism. The religious of the world believe that their faith is what gets them through the day, that it is their guide, and without it they would be lost. They feel that with their God on their side, no ultimate harm can befall them-- which of course isn't true at all, because bad things happen to good people all the time, but it is an interesting aspect of religion. Religious people honestly believe that without faith, a soul is ultimately doomed to misery, failure, and to be lost in life with no direction. According to their way of thinking, the path of God is the only path of optimism.

Yes it is this very group of people-- especially those that belong in the Big Three, that is, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, believe that someday, this very being they claim has infinite compassion for everyone will, in some fashion, wipe out the entire population, separating the wicked from the righteous, whether they be brothers, lovers, or mother and child, and casting the wicked into some form of eternal pain and torture. But that's not even the weird part. The weird part is that religious people look forward to this event. Christianity looks so forward to it they even decided to call the end of everything there ever was "The Rapture".

This is the single most pessimistic philosophical worldview I've ever heard. I can't imagine how anyone other than a sociopathic nihilist could have so much disdain for the human race as to actively wish the judgmental annihilation of it. Yet religion does it with such reckless hope, anticipation, and reverence. And people who don't believe in God are pessimists?

Here's the thing: Agnostics and atheists believe the world could end one day-- could, not will-- and, as a rule, this event as seen as a bad thing. People who do not see this as a bad thing are, outside of religious context, disregarded as being fucking crazy-- and rightfully so. In this case, the only difference is that one form of insanity has been around for a couple thousand years.
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 on this day last year if i was given twenty bucks for a good piece of advice, what would i say?
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with love from CRS @ 10:34 PM 

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