I am not religious. To be honest, most of the people I know aren't very religious. We all have our doubts and we all have some faith. I like that people question our origins, others' principles and each other's actions. I also love so many passages from the Bible, Torah and Koran. I don't want to treat these as works of fictions because of the magnitude so many have placed on these books. To me, all books are sacred. To me, all faith is a miracle.
I can't get over some of the most beautiful things about religion and I hate that politics are gorging themselves creating factions and hatred between different faiths. Anyone that has actually read any scripture, as long as they have some talent of observation and/or deduction, realize that every scripture of a major religion tells us to love. They tell us destruction is devilish. I don't understand how there are so many who are willing to turn to fear and violence the minute an election year, a ballot, a book comes around where supposedly we must choose or we are no longer the chosen.
One of the most amazing moments of my life happened when I should have been too young to understand its meaning. My mother, sisters, brother and I had come home from church. I hated church. Roman Catholics...always mourning, except for a few select holidays. My dad would make these amazing omelettes (still one of the hardest words for me to spell other than diarrhea), and other delicious foods while we were off 'worshiping', I may have combined memories, but those omelettes and my father's beliefs have never been able to separate themselves from each other.
When I was young (perhaps on some Sunday with my face full of brunch) I asked my dad if he believed in God. He told me that if anyone said absolutely there is a God, they might be liars. He also said that if anyone ever said there was no God, they were probably liars too. This taught me always never to say you know something if what you mean to say is that you believe in something. Honestly, I think it's a whole lot more amazing to believe than to know.
With that said....I could continue with some pretty corny things. Like...I know I'll die but I believe I will live etc. As much as I wish I had fruitful and life changing quips, I think I still have more questions than statements. So let me ask you, person so unfortunate as to be reading this...what do you believe in and what do you know? Which do you prefer?
