I've been thinking...
I like Christmas season. Now I play some Christmas songs with my new harmonica after work while cooking spaghetti.
I have a feeling already that many people are not going to like what I'm about to say. Please keep in mind that I am not criticizing or being offensive to any particular group or people. This is just my honest opinion about one of the most controversial topic - religion.
On my facebook profile, my religion is listed as "Confused Catholic". My family is Catholic, I was raised Catholic, and I must say my family is very faithful. Well, my uncle is actually a bishop in South Korea after all. But what about me? I used to go to Sunday schools, attend bible studies, and be like a machine when it comes to recalling lines from Gospel. I used to pray because that's what my parents told me to do and it seemed to be the right thing to do.
Then my faith started to diminish in the last few years of my life. Catholicism just stopped making sense to me, probably because it does not accord with natural science that I eat and breath through education. Many religious beliefs were proven wrong in the past by science despite the oppression by the church or other similar entities, yet many people still believe and pray blindly today.
If God (or Gods) really exists in the sense that Christianity or other religions claims, then HOW does praying to that superior existence improve our life? Does praying to God help and feed billions in the world who suffer from poverty and starvation today? It used to bother me a bit when I go to church and at the end of mass, monetary donations are collected for world hunger, etc. Of course it is good to collect donations, but what were we doing for the previous hour during mass? We were praying so that everyone in the world will be saved, and at the end...money comes in. Religion is not providing any realistic solution to the problems we face today, and that's what I feel illogical about Catholicism, Christianity, or religion itself. It almost never provide realistic, tangible solutions to anything.
This is one of the reason that I support the Zeitgeist Movement, since it points out the destructive and obsolete nature of religion. Religion had its place when science and technology weren't advanced enough to understand nature. Today, many aspects of religion is irrelevant. Now we understand many natural phenomena that were believed to be caused by God's will or something similar. So why do we need to keep supporting outdated thoughts today?
I wish I had the balls to tell my parents, not argue, what I stated above... maybe I should wait until I gain complete financial independence from them.
Tomorrow, my internship will be over with!
I have a feeling already that many people are not going to like what I'm about to say. Please keep in mind that I am not criticizing or being offensive to any particular group or people. This is just my honest opinion about one of the most controversial topic - religion.
On my facebook profile, my religion is listed as "Confused Catholic". My family is Catholic, I was raised Catholic, and I must say my family is very faithful. Well, my uncle is actually a bishop in South Korea after all. But what about me? I used to go to Sunday schools, attend bible studies, and be like a machine when it comes to recalling lines from Gospel. I used to pray because that's what my parents told me to do and it seemed to be the right thing to do.
Then my faith started to diminish in the last few years of my life. Catholicism just stopped making sense to me, probably because it does not accord with natural science that I eat and breath through education. Many religious beliefs were proven wrong in the past by science despite the oppression by the church or other similar entities, yet many people still believe and pray blindly today.
If God (or Gods) really exists in the sense that Christianity or other religions claims, then HOW does praying to that superior existence improve our life? Does praying to God help and feed billions in the world who suffer from poverty and starvation today? It used to bother me a bit when I go to church and at the end of mass, monetary donations are collected for world hunger, etc. Of course it is good to collect donations, but what were we doing for the previous hour during mass? We were praying so that everyone in the world will be saved, and at the end...money comes in. Religion is not providing any realistic solution to the problems we face today, and that's what I feel illogical about Catholicism, Christianity, or religion itself. It almost never provide realistic, tangible solutions to anything.
This is one of the reason that I support the Zeitgeist Movement, since it points out the destructive and obsolete nature of religion. Religion had its place when science and technology weren't advanced enough to understand nature. Today, many aspects of religion is irrelevant. Now we understand many natural phenomena that were believed to be caused by God's will or something similar. So why do we need to keep supporting outdated thoughts today?
I wish I had the balls to tell my parents, not argue, what I stated above... maybe I should wait until I gain complete financial independence from them.
Tomorrow, my internship will be over with!
posted by Masato at
2:54 PM
1 Comments:
I understand what you say and I agree with you. I've seen also that movie and it was just the motion of what I used to believe.
I got used to have you here...most probably I will keep asking in the next LC meetings that we will have: "Where is Masato?" or yell at Roxana for nor inviting you at parties and stuff. We are really going to miss you a lot.
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