Me, James Erb, and the nature of God
Posted by Julie in General Rant, Religion on 09 4th, 2009I spent most of my formative years as an active churchgoer. Then I pedaled off to college and was asked to challenge everything I knew to be true. In that process and in learning more about the many horrors we’ve committed in the name of faith, I lost mine. Not just because of the grandwizardmagicsantaclaus absurdity of it. Heck, two hundred years ago folks would have thought a trip to the moon was equally absurd. Nope, I lost my faith when I realized that religion is a purely human construct. It’s one more tool that the powerful have devised to control the unwashed masses. The corrupt prey on fear – fear of loneliness, of rejection, of the unknown. Because fear, if properly sown, can work to the benefit of those controlling the story. Scare the crap out of people and they’ll give you their last dime to keep the door bolted behind them. It’s the worst possible chicanery and it infuriates me. But that’s WAY off the point.
read comments (3)
