Seven questions for religion.

I actually quite enjoy debating religion, well I enjoy debating in general but religion is a fun topic for me! I have nothing against one having beliefs, where things get fun are when said person tries to argue that their religious view is more correct than another, or that science cannot possibly add up to this view that they have.

I try to limit my beliefs and be as open as I possibly can for belief systems are really just stubborn thoughts, you're only limiting your minds potential to what the wonders of life behold, waiting to be discovered. "What do we really know about life?" This is a commonly asked question, what it means has little to do with what we currently know being wrong, but that we are only a tiny spec in the universe and so what we know is no different. Of course, what we currently think we know may not all be accurate, but it depends what your authority is concerning said knowledge base, science accepts the possibility of being wrong and is open to change - it's already taken that into account. On the other hand, this post is concerning religion, something that is generally a little more ignorant towards change.

These are seven questions that I ask in any argument,or debate. Although I did quite a bit of research into different religious views, I was raised as a Christian, so my examples are usually a little more biased towards that side of religion. None-the-less, let us get started!

1) Why do we have to have been created, what's wrong with evolution?

We understand much more about the universe based on science, evolution is a very real thing. It means change over time, the moment to come will have changed from the current moment, that is evolution on a very small scale.

One of the arguments I find religious people like to make is, "how could life have been created by chance?" Well, there's a few words in there that make that question extremely biased, in favour of religion. Those words would be "created" and "chance." Nothing was "there" to create life (other than life itself, of course), the big bang was like a spark turning into a fire, the spark was only one factor in how we've got to this point in time. Chance? What is random about this? Nothing is truly random, life is actually pretty organized. Life travels down the path of least resistance, it just continues, moves onward. What's random is assuming that there is a God, that is a physical entity, that created life - which brings us to our next question.

2) If there is a God, where did "he" come from?

If we're modelling God as a "he," we're modelling "him" after ourselves which means we're viewing "him" as a being similar to how we're beings. If this is the case, where did "he" come from? Even if we aren't labelling God as a being similar to how we're beings, where did this God come from?

3) What is God, and how do you know?

This idea of God comes from self proclaimed man-made religious stories, and there is absolutely nothing to even prove that the supposed writers existed as who they claimed to be, let alone God.

4) If God commanded humans to write your religious books, but you only know about God through your religious books, how genuine is this idea of God?

This question is extremely self explanatory... There really isn't much else I can say.

5) If your religion is the only right or correct religion, then what about all of the other religions that equally claim to be the only right or correct religion?

Especially concerning religions of which are so similar to each other as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. What about Baha'i Faith, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Jainism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, and many other belief systems from Satanism, to Gypsies, or even Vampirism? These are just examples of religions, what about the various sections that they're broken down into, how do you define what is right from wrong when they all claim to be the only correct view? The general answer is either "the devil did it" or that "it comes down to personal choice," which isn't the worst answer to give, but it completely undermines the point of having a belief.

6) If you believe in Jesus, what do you think of the hundreds of other Jesus' who all followed the same story line over different ages, and through different belief systems, all similar to christianity?

The best example I can give of this is Horus; the Egyptian Jesus three thousand years before Jesus. Here's an interesting Wikipedia page I stumbled accross on Jesus Christ in comparative mythology if anyone's interested in furthering their knowledge on this subject — or maybe you're just curious, there's nothing wrong with that!

7) What is the history of your religion, and the history of religion in general?

If you're going to have a religious belief system, at least understand it. Faith isn't an excuse for stubborn ignorance. Actually, as it turns out, religion didn't originally mean what it does today. This whole literal interpretation of looking at life as God is more of a modern thing, religion used to mean what we essentially look at as Spirituality today - which is that God is in the self and that we are life.

Christianity may have the oldest known book, but the first religious texts are from Hinduism, which is the oldest known organized religion. Hinduism didn't originally have anything to do with a God, just Karma and Reincarnation. There were only a few scripts compared to the golden book of how not to live. Of course the Bible, among other religious books or texts, does have a lot of good information and stories to tell, but it's been taken completely out of context and way too literally for its own good - they're just stories. Unless one can step out of his own stubborn thoughts, he won't be able to understand them. As far as I'm concerned, our purpose is whatever we make it - if you were told that your purpose was to pick flowers all day since you were young, that's what you would do because that's what's been put in your head. I'm not so against religion, just these stubborn interpretations of it that take away any real meaning from God. God isn't a being of his own, God is life, the universe, shit like that, and religion is an ancient people's interpretation of life. In the end if the day, religion has a very simple message, and that of a message of Love.

Cancer & Hemp

Did you know that the earliest known uses for hemp go back as far as 10,000 BC (in Taiwan), or that the earliest known woven fabric dates back to 8,000 BC (in China) and is apparently made of hemp?

The cannabis plant in itself has long been known to man as one of the most medicinal herbs we have here on Earth. The best part is that it doesn't stop at being just simply medicinal; hemp could also completely put a halt to the oil and coal industries because of it's ability to be created into bio-degradable plastic, or the deforestation industry with hemp being able to be grown and cut much quicker while also using much less chemicals and machines to turn it into paper than it takes to grow and cut down a forest and then turn that into paper. Hemp can be used for almost anything!

Hemp oil is apparently a very probable candidate in the "cure" to cancer, who would have guessed? I quoted cure to emphasize it, the biggest flaw of the fight to cure cancer isn't just that there isn't really a full cure but that cancer shouldn't even necessarily be something that we have to cure. It's important to note that cancer is now an industry in itself, there's a reason doctors and hospitals don't tell you anything about what exactly cancer is and if they do, they won't tell you what caused it. The only option we have open at this time is slow not-so-preferable treatments that will last a while and result in an even lesser immune system, and that's before the high probability of death. Cancer basically starts with a very natural mutation of cells, this mutation is really nothing and is completely controlled by your body. Where this becomes cancer is when it's able to spread in a part of the body in an unnaturally, uncontrollable manner. This is result of the environment within your body turning from it's natural base to a much more unnatural acidic through all of the unhealthy shit you put into it. It was Dr. Otto Warburg who discovered that cancerous cells cannot survive in an alkaline, oxygen rich enviroment where as they thrive in an acidic, low oxygen enviroment. He actually won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 for proving this. Obviously with the changed environment your immune system won't be able to function as it normally would and therefore there is nothing to control this cell mutation. The bottom line is that cancer is one of the things that happens when you don't take care of your body.

What the hell do you think is going to happen to you and your [future] kids when all you put through your body is coca cola, mcdonalds, alcohol, no exercise, and a shelf full of prescription drugs with more side effects than any good they could potentially, temporarily do? Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying go out and buy a 5-piece of marijuana and smoke it right now, there are ups and downs to everything and marijuana is something that a lot of people enjoy recreationally maybe a little too much. You are still putting smoke in your lungs [and that-shit-that-gets-you-high in your blood] and your body does need time to clean itself out. What I am saying is that I'm just tired of people talking about the cure to cancer as if they even understand what cancer is, and that we need to stop listening to what people say and taking their word for it, do your own damn research! I'm no exception.

Okay, I suppose I'll include a small bit of the history to the illegalization of hemp. So, why is hemp illegal? I'll start by saying that it's not illegal because it's bad for you, no one has died from marijuana alone. If the Government gave a shit about our well being, we wouldn't have alcohol and tobacco products, and the quality of the food coming from fast food restaurants would be much higher. There is actually a lot to do with why hemp, or marijuana, is illegal. The list goes from racism and religion, all the way to corporate greed. I'm not going to get too into this, I'll leave this research to your own doing. What I'll say is that the United States had a law once upon a time that made it illegal to not grow marijuana. The illegalization of marijuana in the United States actually starts with the Mexican revolution. After it's illegalization, other industries were able to arise and take over, and since then have worked to keep it illegal for the purposes of their own well being.

When does the journey end?

In short, it doesn't. It really depends from what perspective we're speaking through though. One's journey could be characterised as starting when born and ending when dead. But, what happens after death? We know life itself was here long before we were even born into it. So, I think it's safe to say that it's hard to give a start or end to the journey of life. However there is a pattern, everything seems to start and end except where it ends is a new start. Nothing dies, it just transforms into something new. Life isn't really a thing that can be defined with a beginning or end, for it's really only as long as a moment, it simply continues and lives on in transformation.