RELIGIOUS IDIOCY

By J. Nicholas Lewis

What is religion? It’s a simple, yet complex question with varying meanings. The dictionary definition quoted directly from The New Webster’s Expanded Dictionary 1993 Edition is “an acknowledgement of our obligation to God; practical piety; devotion; any system of faith and worship.” Some define religion as means for humanity to stay intact with the spiritual side of life. I, however, believe religion (particularly Christianity) represents the epitome of everything that is inherently evil and the repressor of our freedoms. What positive role has religion contributed to modern and past societies? Lets see… wars focused around the vapid point of proving that one philosophy should supersede another philosophy (which still carries on up till today—take a look at the middle east), the slaughter of millions of innocent people (if you’re of European descendant and your ancestors were either protestant or pagan, chances are they were murdered in the name of Religion) tyranny, ignorance, fear, bigotry, and so on and so forth. Of all these things I’ve listed is there one significant contribution religion has dedicated to our world today? So far I still have yet to hear a plausible answer.

Now am I saying that I have a personal vendetta toward religion and its followers in general? No. The emphasis here is towards religious fanatics, those who take their beliefs to an extreme, enforcing them through means of violence and abhorrence such as the people who protest at “GOD HATES FAGS” parades, those who blow up abortion clinics, and those who roam the public with a bible at hand scrutinizing and bible thumping every person whom they feel is unfit to enter the enigmatic realm of heaven. Is diversity really that eccentric to them? Are they too blind to see reasoning behind logic? How are they so sure that their God represents the pinnacle of human understanding?

For those of you who are also weary of religious zealots and their ambiguous mission to spread the word of god… just think to yourself—while these people claim to be the essence of everything that is good and holy, they are probably adulteresses, child molesters, sodomites, etc. Chances are your generalization is correct. I always find it funny when people claim to live by the bible—-by the word of the almighty God—-while whoring around and cheating on their spouse and then going to church putting on the façade that they are repenting their sins assuming that everything is all fine and dandy and they can go back to whoring, lying, cheating, or any other sinful act that strikes their fancy just so they can repeat the whole process again. It’s absolutely asinine. If one believes in the bible so strongly, then by God, follow the rules and traditions of it and quit being a lecherous trollop or a conniver... or better yet how about not being human! The very fact that you are a human being makes you susceptible to committing sin no matter how holy of a person you may claim to be. It's unavoidable and downright inhuman.

Another thing I don't understand is why some of these religious fanatics claim that the bible is the word of God, when yet it was written by man. Many of them may argue that God some how influenced man to write the scripture. How is that feasible? If God wanted to relay a message, why would he need to speak through someone? With that being said, I don't see how God speaks through man to write a miraculous work of fiction (I’m not going to lie the bible is a marvelous literary work). I mean if that was the case then God spoke through Herman Melville to write Moby Dick.

Also, some may say that the bible is a historical document. On what degree is it a historical document? I haven’t met one person that can prove that a Noah’s arc made from gopher wood that was three hundred cubits (a cubit is an arcane measurement, roughly about eighteen-twenty two inches long) in length and fifty cubits in width and thirty cubits high that was used as a safety spot while God proceeded to flush out the earth by making it rain forty continuous days and night. I have yet to meet one person that can prove its existence. The reason why they can’t prove it… is because there is no concrete evidence that such a thing even existed. But no… some of them say that it does exist and it just hasn’t been found. So in other words their point is about as logical as a Lord of the Rings loon claiming that the two towers, Mordor and Isengard are real, but just haven’t been discovered yet. And I’m presuming the towers are located on middle earth where orcs will one-day flood from these towers to pillage and obliterate the world of man. That’s what the bible sounds like to me when it discusses all this gibberish about Noah’s Arc, the tower of Babel, and the apocalypse—one big epic fantasy novel.