Drinking can bring us closer to god, but it can also bring us closer to defeat. Maybe it's only in complete defeat that we can truly be one with god. It would make sense since those who seem closest to god are usually either lying politicians or crazy homeless people who are clearly about as deep into defeat as a person can get. I'm agnostic to the idea of god and atheist to the idea of a perfect god but during times of distress I'll often embarrass myself by praying, in my mind, to something that may or not be there to answer my plea. It seems so silly when everything is fine but when one is desperate the praying just comes out of fucking nowhere.
Then if someone gets what they were praying for they often credit it to god. As if there's no such thing as dumb luck. And not only that but it's a little bit selfish. Just because your prayers seemed to be answered doesn't mean every pious person who prays got what they asked for. Most of them die or move on. But those few who get their prayers answered all of a sudden believe that god must exist. All because their prayers were answered. It's like a big middle finger to all the other people who prayed and got shit out of it.
It all makes sense though. People often need a little hope to get through life and religion offers it. The idea of an all powerful being who will answer to your needs is too good to be true but far too good for people to not to believe in it. And then the "god works in mysterious ways" bullshit is just insurance. If god really wanted people to believe in him then he'd just ask us to. But I haven't had any conversations with him lately and I'm not expecting to. And even if a person's salvation was dependent on believing in a completely unproven god, then that's a jackass of a god. And I don't care what sort of hell I'm supposedly doomed to. I refuse to worship a god who's a dick and if god is all powerful then he must be a dick to let the world be the way it is.
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