To my readers: My opinions is that Heaven is a coping mechanism for the human race. Being eternally apart from people they love, or the realization that this is possibly the end, might be something that is too saddening to imagine. Admittedly, if the concept of Heaven makes things easier for people in advanced age (or of any age, really), I would not want to destroy the hope for the one thing that may give them a source of purpose or happiness in their final days. However, I don't fear death or not existing after I pass, for when I'm gone, it will not matter, nor do I believe I be cognizant about it. However, while I'm aware of the time that will pass after my death, it admittedly is painful to think that perhaps I will never see certain people again. This, to me, is the single most attractive reason to believe in Heaven. However, believing in something doesn't prove something is correct as much as disbelieving strips it of its validity.
My argument for being irreligious are many, and it's not out of spite or hatred for a God, as that would technically be an illogical thought process seeing as it is that I don't believe there to be any reasonable conclusions for there to be a god. It all comes down to how you define God. Do you define it as the energy that is out there, or the cosmos? I cannot describe all of my feelings about the matter on here, but if there is a God, she will know that I worked with the mind that was given, and asked questions without blindly accepting something out of fear. How is it that people, who never asked to be created in the first place, can be sent to Hell by a creator that gave them the illusion of free-will? Free-will should not mean "love me or die." That's free with with an asterisk.* If you take away the penalty and rewards of Heaven and Hell, what are you left with? What about those that choose to do right for the sake of it, not based on the expectation of a higher reward or the circumvention of something unpleasing to them? Aren't they more deserving? Too many questions.
I have no problem with this concept of God if you hold it to yourself, or don't force it upon others, but as you know, many wars are being fought for the sake of religion, and often under the guise of it. Many scriptures are used by others to justify many atrocities worldwide. If there was a God, surely she must have known that it would be absolutely ridiculous to leave a book behind by people, not to mention, in the possession of people with positions of authority and POWER. Take a look at this list of religions, which I'm sure is incomplete. So did God really leave it to people to interpret the many religions there are?
I live out my life with regard to the intrinsic value it holds and I do cling to the notion that religiosity is not commensurate to morality. Morality goes far beyond sexual intercourse - and more specifically, I think it would apply to wars being fought today and whether or not it was justified. But I am not the judge, and hoping there is one will not change anything. Good and bad exist only as a social-contract we have with each other, as well as other selfish reasons that we don't see as selfish. If God is all knowing, and all powerful, than it surely would have been known that there would be a muddle of confusion after generations come and go, and it surely would have been known that if he created a certain someone, then they'd go to hell. So why create them? If this is illogical, then I'm sorry. To the believer, they will say I just need faith, and that's where the problem lies. Something this dire should not require faith. I would not ever leave a son behind in the wildnerness and one day present him with a key to several hundred doors (which represent a religion, or way of life) and should he open the wrong one, damn him to eternal damnation. If there is a god, she knows my heart and how I've arrived at my conclusions.
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