An Essay on God - Draft with thoughts - First thoughts
Ok, so some of you know how I feel about this subject, but recently I have been doing more reading about religion, faith, and non faith. I have often been worried about people being able to blindly follow what rationally is wrong. I mean I know great scientific and mathematical minds that blindly believe in god. Basically I will start with these questions: Why do people believe in god? What forces this belief? Is faith beneficial or detrimental to society(the world) as a whole?
I will open with this quote from Nietzsche, " The concept of "God" invented as a counter-concept of life - everything harmful, poisonous, slanderous, the whole hostility unto death against life synthesized in this concept in a gruesome unity! The concept of the "beyond," the "true world" invented in order to devaluate the only world there is - in order to retain no goal, no reason, no task for our earthly reality! The concept of the "soul," the "spirit," finally even "immortal soul," invented in order to despise the body, to make it sick - "holy"; to opposewith a ghastly levity everything that deserves to be taken seriously in life, the questions of nourishment, abode, spiritual diet, treatment of the sick, cleanliness and weather! In place of health, the "salvation of the soul" - that is a folie circulaire between pernitential convulsions and hysteria about redemption! the concept of "sin" invented along with the torture instrument that belongs with it, the concept of "free will," in order to confuse the instincts, to make mistrust of the instincts second nature!
What does all this mean? Nietzsche questioned faith, religion, and god in some ways in his writings. He poses concepts based on the fact that people do manic-depresive things to themselves in the name of religion.
The concept of "god"(God, Allah, whatever you believe in as your god) as the counter concept to life. Think of what you do in life to enjoy yourself. Do you consdier yourself a good person? By reading in or blindly following the word of some churches I am certain that at least one church somewhere could find fault with what you do in their eyes of god. Do you drink coffee? Well if so that is considered a sin to the Mormon’s. What about alcohol? Again mormons and more. Are you tattooed or pierced? Many religions find fault with these practices yet they go back through pre christian times.
To further define god as the counter concept to life we must consider some pains that people place their bodies through in order to reach a higher state of enlightenment. What do I mean by pains to their bodies. How many of you know someone that fasts in the name of god to reach a higher state of enlightenment. In reality all they are doing is placing their body in a slight state of shock causing some minor halucinations in order to reach enlightenment. How many of my medical friends would like to chime in on the health of fasting. We as educated individuals must account for the fact that originally fasting was set up in order to help preserve a food supply in quickly growing cultures. By claiming it was for god, the priests of the time were able to get their followers to not eat for a period of time. Fasting came in handy when food supplies were low. This is still a problem in parts of the world, so fine fast, but in reality what are you solving in most industrialized countries.
To Be Continued.................
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