Catholicism @ MindSay

PLease God Smite the one Reading this Right now

or Why I am Atheist

by narodniki


There's always this talk about achieving world peace. It's probably the most abused phrase in the whole of creation. I often wonder why God, in all his wonder and awesomeness did not include this itsy tiny bit in the whole package. Now what we have are people killing people. And as time progressed, so did our creativity in inflicting pain and suffering towards others.

They (the Catholic Church, evangelicals, charismatics, etc)  always say that all of this is just a test for God to see if we truly are deserving of our place in heaven. So he's up there right now, watching all these killings and sufferings and what does he do about it? Nothing. Because the cocksucker wants to find out if we truly are deserving to be with him for all eternity.

This is just plain fucking stupid. If that is true, if God truly exists, then the least that I can say about him is that he is an insolent obnoxious asshole who has a twisted morality. Yep, that's what he is. And I give him the opportunity right now, right at this moment to smite me for all this blasphemy, and for future ones to come.

Personally, I would not even think of getting near a person like him. Talk about omniscience, eh? Knowledge about all the things that have and will happen. Why can't he use that?

And then there's the Bible. Just what the fuck is it all about? I think that the Bible is the filthiest piece of garbage there is. I've read much more enlightening stuff. Crazy religious folks (CRFs) hold on to its words like its giving them an orgasm or something.

Maybe people subscribe to this bullshit because of fear. They think that they do not want to go to hell. They think that being all burned up in eternity forever with Satan in the lake of fire, is something that's really terrible. They don't want God's wrath to descend upon them, they think that damnation really sucks.

Personally, I don't think that's the most terrible thing that can happen. I am a TVaddict and I'm telling you, the stuff that I see on the news everyday is far more horrible than all that damnation stuff.

Children on Africa dying of AIDS and hunger in extreme misery. Young girls, 3, 4, 5, years old being raped by an entire squad of soldiers. And these kids, if they're lucky, are left to live. I once heard of something called a fistula. Children in their early teens get pregnant, and because their vaginas are still too small, it would tear in childbirth and complications would occur, involuntary urination and defecation would result, that is if they survive. And more often, the infant, being squeezed up and all that trauma, would not survive the birth.

And all these stupidities are repeated again and again in the history of mankind. Dumb monkeys, stupid fucks, retarded assholes  that people are, I honestly cannot see any ray of hope.

We're already in hell. We just don't realize it yet.

Bored to the depths of his being, God, the Father, the Creator looked down from his golden throne in the heavens down to what looks like a microscopic single speck of blue dust. Magnified several million times, this tiny speck of blue dust, turns out to be the planet Earth. Out of the infinite worlds in the infinite universe, God chooses to direct his attention to this piece of floating cosmic debris. An angel approaches  and asks what's the matter. God sighs. The angel, which looks like a flourescent light bulb in human form, repeats the question. God looks at the angel. The angel looks at him straight in the eye, a million eyes to be exact, covering every inch of his body. Unlike the image popularized by Christian evangelists of an old grandfatherly figure with long white hair and beard, draped in immaculate flowing robes, God is actually this mass of eyes clumped together. Besides this tiny mistake, the followers of Jesus Christ as they claim themselves to be, has a pretty accurate picture of what God truly is like. For this God here my friend, is not a kind, forgiving, loving God; this God is the god of anger and jealousy and vengeance and retribution so you better not mess with him. And now this God is bored and is being interrogated by a nosy angel arrogant enough to assume that somehow it can alleviate the boredom that only beings as powerful as the God of Moses and Abraham can possibly experience. He glared at the angel and told it to please fuck off. He slumps on his throne and with his right hand, picks up the remote and turns on the television.

And a Good Friday to you all.

 

For those not Catholic, Good Friday is the Friday preceding Easter Sunday. It is the remembrance of the anniversary of the crucifixion of Christ.

 

So, this morning, I am at work and a young volunteer, a high-school girl named Jessica, asked me, "why do they call it Good Friday when it celebrates something bad?"

 

I thought that to be a reasonable question and, being me, I immediately looked it up for her. I found that there is no definitive answer to the question, likely it stems from English bastardization of language, but there is a somewhat plausable explanation from The Catholic Encylopedia. 

 

Go forth and celebrate this "Great and Holy" day. Or just don't eat meat.

The earth has been around for millions of years. People have been around for, well, a long time. You would think that by now, we'd have come up with every possible way to sin.

 

Oh no. Don't look now, but the Catholic Church has issued a decree that there are "new" sins. Well, I suppose they aren't really new, it is all stuff we've been doing for a while now, pollution especially, but the Church is just now calling them sins.

 

I really don't know what to make of this. It seems to me that they kind of covered everything with the 7 deadly sins. Pride, Lust, Sloth, Envy, Greed, Gluttony, and Wrath. Boy, sure seems like we've got them all. But, just in case, let's create some commandments that will make sure and tie up those lose ends. Oh, wait, I think they already did that.

 

I just don't get it, people have been living for a long time governed by the rules laid out in the various religious texts. If you're Catholic, the Bible sort of has been the rule book for thousands of years. What changed? How come I woke up this morning in 2008 and suddenly there are new sins? 

 

I guess this isn't really that big of a deal. So, the Catholic Church wants to declare Stem Cell Research a sin. Not like that's really going to stop people. Lust is a sin, but let's check out the rate of population growth, hmm?

 

Still, to me it just seems silly, we've been coasting along all these years knowing right from wrong and suddenly, today, there are new wrongs to be discovered. I can't help but wonder, are there other things I can do wrong that aren't technically listed as sins? This could get interesting.

Emily Prigge, 23, from Lake City Minnesota, was dammed if she did and dammed if she didn’t. Prigge, an unmarried and recently pregnant fifth grade teacher, informed her employer St. Felix Catholic School, that she was pregnant. 

The school responded by asking Prigge to resign from her position because when hired she signed a, “…Catholic Christian Witness Statement where she agreed to be a good example as a Christian in her personal and academic life.”  The school argued that Prigge’s actions were in direct violation of the Catholic Christian Witness Statement. On the other hand, St. Fleix could have easily spun Prigge’s situation by denouncing premarital sex while endorsing their Pro-Life position.  

As a private institution, do you feel the schools actions were correct?  Or do you believe that in keeping with the schools core values and beliefs they must also adhere to modern laws, policies, and real life situations?

This report was contributed by Danielle Morrison

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