Wednesday, June 18, 2008


I am absolutely exhausted - it's 1.13 am, and a big group of us just finished discussing and talking (okay, so we finished a long time ago) but I just quit, so sue me. :P I thought about keeping this on a private blog, but since it involves a fundamental part of who I am, I thought I'd just post it here. (That, and this blog is long overdue for an update :P )

Anyway - what I'm going to talk about is -my- view on religion. MY view, kay? So don't put me in ISA or OSA or..goodness knows what. :P Since I'm too lazy to explain all in detail, you get them in point form, with explanations if you're lucky.

All religions are just God's way of reaching out to as many people as possible.

God is benevolent - He saves those who do good deeds and believe in Him. (I refuse to believe in a God who would forsake His children just because his children didn't follow the 'supposedly' 'one true path'.)

Humans were given free will, free choice, for a reason.

Forsaken are those who do not believe in God, those who commit crimes because they think no one is looking, or that 'it doesn't matter anyway, there is no God to punish me!' Someone is -always- watching.

God would not have wanted for His children to wage war against one another simply for being of different faiths.

As long as it all leads back to Him, the route you take is irrelevant.

Aslan could take into His heaven a Calormene who had fought against the Narnians, because that Calormene was brave and valiant and passionate for what he fought for, even though it was for Tash. He said, "All good deeds done in the name of Tash are done unto me". This is my view of religion.

The wars between religion start because people are convinced that theirs is the only true religion and that all others are false. If everyone can just remember that only God knows the answer, and until then, the most important thing you can do is stay true to -your- beliefs, the world would be a whole lot more peaceful.

Man is flawed. Therefore, utterings and writings by Man are all flawed.

Man was never meant to know the answer to the universe.

God loves us all.

Whether you be Christian, Hindu, Muslim, whatever - I don't care. I don't judge people based on their beliefs. I judge people for their personality and character - religion comes not at all. I happily proclaim myself and my brother free thinkers, but we believe in the existence of a God, and try to do right by Him - we just don't necessarily have a name for him. If you wanted me to name a prophet, I would say C.S. Lewis - Narnia might be a fairytale, but if you look at it as a way to interpret God, he is my prophet, just like Jesus is for Christians and Nabi Muhammad is for Muslims.

According to your religion, you may think I'll burn in hell, but that's okay. I respect your right to believe that, because after all - we were given the freedom of choice, and man is flawed - that's why we all don't think alike, else we'd all be carbon copies of each other. I refuse to believe in a God that would discard His children for not following the religion He apparently specified. Neither the Quran nor the Bible dropped from heaven - they were written by mortal men, and therefore are subject to errors like all man made items.

As soon as I can get it, I will twine 7 strings in the colours of the rainbow into a string bracelet like the ones Buddhists wear. Not that I'm trying to copy a trend, or anything - just a reminder of what I believe in - free thinking.

In the end, it's -your- faith that really counts.