June 18, 2005
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All right, I’m going to get controversial. You’ve been warned. I was in
a conversation at work yesterday about, what else, religion, gays and
minorities. Now, here is my theory. As most of you probably already
know, most minorities are very religious, and because of this, for the
most part, they are anti-gay. It all made me think (actually, I thought
of this before, but yesterday I was dumb enough to share it with a
co-worker) about minorities and religion. Why is it that only whites
are agnostic or atheist? I mean, obviously, a majority of the world has
some belief and practice some sort of religion. But, when it comes to
agnostics or atheists, whites pretty much have the market on that one.
You would be hard pressed to find agnostic or atheist minorities. Why
is that? My theory, is that, for some minorities, life is so bad that
they need something to hang on to. They need to believe that there is a
life after this one in which things will be better. And, there is
nothing wrong with believing this. Its just not for everybody. I’m
bothered by religious people that believe that everybody needs religion
in their life…………..not just any religion, but their own
religion. As I write this, John Lennon’s “Imagine” just came on. What a
beautiful song and wonderful thought. What a world that would be?
Anywho, I digress. Just because they need religion in their own lives,
doesn’t mean, that its for me or that I too need religion. Still, its
good that they have found something that can give them purpose and take
them away from the daily hell in which some of them live. Of course,
not all of them live in hell or bad lives. Some have great lives and
live comfortably. What amazes me, is that usually the people that are
living poorly and most destitute have the most faith. They pray for
God’s help, and yet, the more they pray, the worse things get. Yet, you
have to admire the fact that they don’t lose faith, it only strengthens
their faith. Of course, the cynic in me says “what a bunch of idiots,
how can you still pray and believe in a God that just, say, burned down
your house or killed your kid.” But still, you have to appreciate the
fact that the whole time, their faith in a higher power never waivers,
when they can very easily blame God. After all, it would make sense to
blame God, since God gets all the credit when things go good in their
life.Now, I can’t stand when people hide behind God for things they have
done. People that say “they did it for God” or “God made them do it.”
Even as an agnostic, this disgusts me. For starters, take
responsibility for your actions. You are an adult. You might regret
what you did and might even apologize, but don’t sit there and blame
others for your actions. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Plus,
God (assuming he/she exists) is not on this earth telling you to do
shit, even though you might believe this to be true. Wow, I’m on quite
the soapbox right now. I should just stop now.
Comments (2)
Why stop? This was excellent…your thought processes were really going somewhere.
Interesting, although the first part was a bit racist, although I am not saying that you are racist, it was just written in that way. But what perplexes me most about the Americans is how religious you are. In Europe, it’s so different. But I avoid talking about religion, b/c honestly don’t know much about it. So, I am rather quiet. One shouldn’t speak of what he’s clueless about. N.