On 'on perspectives'

Just because religion always gets my mind going, this entry will be a rebuttal of sorts to a friend’s latest post ‘on perspectives’.

I know most Christians would not identify themselves as "God-fearing" but I believe most are. It’s not that they fear God per se it’s that they fear not having a God. Why is having unquestionable faith a Christian virtue? Because the church is the shepherd, the congregation is the flock and so much as raising an eyebrow in question would throw the whole migration off course. I believe devoting yourself to a religion without some serious inquiries would be selling yourself short. How can you justify signing your life away to a set of metaphysical beliefs without at least shopping around first? Let’s face it, you wouldn’t even buy a computer until you’ve listed all your options. Any higher understanding of the world through religion is superficial, propped up onto the slender stilts of faith. Religion discourages questions because it simply can not bear the weight.

Christians will argue that humans are and will always be too inferior to understand the will of God. But if God is too busy tending to the greater good of the Universe to micromanage the follies of man, then why would he care about any of our individual crisis’s and accomplishments? In that respect, why pray to him at all? I believe that even if we're too feeble to understand God's ultimate intentions, as the only species on this planet capable of pondering why, we all owe it to ourselves to do so. We SHOULD question God and we SHOULD question faith.

As an exercise, let’s forget about God for a second and put yourself into his shoes. If you were an omnipotent being with a human mind, don’t you think that YOU could do better than this? What grade would you give God as the curator of earth? I’d say for an all-knowing being, he’s more incompetent than Bush. If you had the limitless power and resources, anything short of utopia is a complete and utter failure.

The fact of the matter is: Innocent people die, convicts get set free and none of it matters enough to be changed. If we are to acknowledge a God, let’s be more demanding of our ‘God’, after all he’s omnipotent. If pain and suffering exists, why isn’t our God more empathetic? If pleasure and happiness exists, why isn’t our God more philanthropic? God doesn’t even possess the qualities of a good friend let alone all-powerful being worthy of worship. I won’t believe in a God until there is one worth believing in.

Today's Track:
Junior Boys - Dull To Pause