Gods seem like such a better idea when they embody something. Like the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians did it. Or how the Hindus and Buddhists do it. Why do Americans always have to be so different? Because we're bigger and better? Hah. What a joke.
I'm going to put it like this, and perhaps I'll actually stick to it. Actually, I really hope someone disagrees with me. Christianity is not correct. Catholicism is not correct. Islamic religions are not correct. All theisms are not correct. They are noble. Each and every one of them. They were necessary. They aren't any longer except (maybe) in a historical document fashion; if they are cross referenced for accuracy. There is no God. There are no Gods.
I wish I could know. I wish I could play God. I can't even say so much as I did about religion without questioning it. Was religion ever necessary? If Gods were never conceptualized, would the human race as a generalized whole never have had morals or ethics? I never had God, and while I don't see myself as a moralistic person, I still tend towards that effect. Am I different enough a person that that world would be a worse place had there never been religion?
Tangent-like explanation thing: This was going to be a thoughts blog, but God is what's on my mind.
It's funny how religion can be such a burden and a boon. So many wars were caused by religion.
Thinking of that, perhaps religion is good at an limited individual scale. People should have a sense of right and wrong, but they should also decide some things on their own. Seems to me that groups of religious people cause problems, but religious people themselves are okay. This is not to say that religion makes any person better. In fact, I feel religion is a ball and chain. People I know who understand of religion (beware the difference of understanding and understanding of) but take not of, are better people than those who partake in theisms. Even more so than devoutly religious people and ultimately so over fanatics.
Strongly religious people tend to close themselves from others through arrogance and aloofness. Fanatics tend to be rash or obnoxiously evangelistic.
I read somewhere someone saying something along the lines of, "When you put faith in something, it shows that there is no actual merit in that which gains the faith." While I moderately disagree with this notion, it spurs such a statement of my own as, "You should not put so much faith in something else, as it should put faith in you. For when you put faith in something else, it demeans only you."
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