Religious Faith
The religion that my parents raised me under has some rather odd ideas. To really get it you need to have “faith.” I have visited Jerusalem, Bethlehem, the Dead Sea, and I have put my bare feet into the Sea of Galilee trying to get a better understanding of this religion. My feet went right though the surface tension of the water. I certainly could not have walked on top of the water. I would have gone swimming for sure.
You can lead a long disreputable life as a thief, a rapist, a murderer, and an evil sadistic child molester. That’s OK just as long as at the last minute, right before you die, you sincerely repent it all and ask God or Jesus for his forgiveness. As long as you really do mean it, then everything will be forgiven. You will be just fine, and you will live in eternal happiness up in Heaven right alongside Mother Teresa.
This religion has other things that one just has to accept on faith. Things like talking serpents, spontaneously combusting bushes, carpenters walking on water, and transmuting water into wine. There are some other weird stories that one has to completely accept if you are going to really belong to this church. One is that this Jewish carpenter (who was the son of God) was the baby of a woman who had never had sex with a man. She was a total virgin. Believing this fairy tale of virgin birth is essential to understanding the religion.
The other fairy tale at the core of this religion is the story of this same guy being executed by the Roman courts because he was a radical and was a threat to the conventional power structure. OK so far, but here is the weird part. After his dead body had lain unrefrigerated for 2 or 3 days rotting and putrefying it just sort of magically came back to life and he held a conversation with his girl friend. But he wouldn’t let her touch him.
For 2,000 years wars have raged and people have died because of this evil religion. The world has many different religious beliefs, but this one is really a total load of nonsense.
And now that I am a legally ordained minister (thanks to the modern day wonders of the internet) I feel free to openly criticize this religion of my parents. After all, America was founded upon the idea of religious freedom.
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