Everyone seems to be blogging about religion so I decided I should too. It is my deepest belief that religion is alright if it doesn't dictate how you live. Religion should enhance your life not stop you from living it. Too many religions out there hold you back and prevent you from really enjoying your life. They rule you out of fear not love.
Take Christianity for example. The basis be hide it is to save your soul from going to fire and brimstone. They have devoted a large amount of there time to scaring us into their religion. So people practice the religion out of fear not love.
Now regardless of what you believe in lets say that there is a god (for those who don't believe in a god.) Now the bible has been revised several times through out history. Hell went from a very cold place to the modern day belief of a very hot place. This was changed by a monk several hundreds of years after the death of Christ. Why did he change it? He was not a expert on the matter. What right does he have to do that. This is why I don't take the bible to be a book of complete facts. I interpret it form the morale behind the story point of view. Was Christ a real person, maybe. But the Bible is more of a rule book that explains the rules to you in a entertaining way.
However I don't believe that thousands of years after the Bible was written that the church can change it to suit their needs. That's no longer a religion. It's a way of control the massive to me at least.
To those people who are Christian. I'm sorry for picking on your religion. You just happen to be the religion that came to mind as a example. Other religions do a similar thing too.
Now because of all that I practice my own form of Christianity. I believe in God but interpret the Bible in my own way. I also believe that you should not have to go to Church to worship your god.
Just remember let religion enhance your life not take it over.
You sound like the German nihilist thinker Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who most famously declared that "God is dead," but was also known for calling Christianity a "slave morality."
The problem with today's society is a dangerous selfishness, in which many individuals think that no law, norm, or morale applies to them. They call it living freely; it's probably more akin to living destructively. For hundreds of years people have been moving away from old ideas of morality and religion, resulting in a society which interprets good and evil too loosely. Following your religion, whatever it may be, is a good thing. Religion is the basis of morality. Draw your own conclusions.
By the way, Nietzsche went insane towards the end of his life and died in a psychiatric ward.
Van Gogh, Tesla (not technically insane, but destitute and alone, but it does not invalidate his accomplishments), John Nash, Marquis De Sade, Ernest Hemingway. Their mental health dose not invalidate anything they did, wrote, or created.
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Absolutely not. In fact, for many of them, like Hemingway or Van Gogh, their supposed insanity figured prominently in their work and contributed to their creativity. I would argue, though, that it's unlikely their works themselves are what drove them to insanity, as it has been suggested (though of course not proven) was Nietzsche's case.
The problem I have with some traditional Religions is that they tell you to be good. A person should instinctively be good or act good on their own. A religion should not have to tell them to do that. In a way the religion is saying what a person would do on their own. Many people who do not regularly practice a religion or go to Church today because they do not have enough time to or what ever reasons will behave on their own. Society as a whole tells us what is right and what is wrong. Society is driven by our wants,needs and having to live together in a world that is rapidly getting smaller. If we did not have religion the law would be the deciding factor on our morales.Religion came about as a way to find the answer to life. The law came about as a way to force humans to live together peacefully.
Personally I think Good an Evil are way to broad of terms.