Beliefs

**WARNING: This post contains the religious views of the blog owner. Any offense you may feel at what is written after this point was unintended. If you do not wish to hear the views I have, please do not continue to read. Thank you.**

Religion.

Sometimes I think of the way we are. If you think about people in a certain way you can see how truly amazing we can be. Look at all other species that walk the Earth. They cannot communicate the way we do. They can't think and express themselves the way they do. In that alone, we are amazing. But we have even surpassed that amount of impressiveness. The technology we have created, the things we can do. However, most people take all of this for granted.

Then we get to the point: Why? Why are we here? How did we get here? Where do we go afterwords? Some people believe we come back in a different form, some think we go to a Heaven or a Hell. Then there are people like me.

Why do I think we're here? Honestly, I haven't got a clue. I used to believe the why was the Christian version: We were put here by God. But then I started to think about it. Why in the world would he do that? How was God made? So many parts of the story didn't fit quite right to me. Then there is the scientific version: Big Bang, evolution, etc. I will admit, this version is more believable. But I still have a few questions: Why humans? Why are we the ones who have the higher evolutionary position? Why haven't other animals evolved just as much as us? Will they ever evolve like us? If not, why? If so, why so slow? I suppose if I found someone more learned in this area they could answer these questions for me.

Where do we go afterwords? To be blunt, I think we rot in the ground. A Heaven or Hell doesn't seem realistic to me. If we are fearful of our "God" we may be rewarded. However, if you are a good person but do not show faith in "Him" then you are doomed to a torturous afterlife. That seems hardly fair. People are given the choice to believe what they want, and yet they aren't because if they don't believe in "Him" we will be punished. Even less believable, the idea that we come back as another species or person. Although the idea sounds interesting, it also sound more like a fantasy world to me.

Believing in a religion seems a lot like believing in Santa Claus to me. It's just something made up to answer the questions that simply can't be answered.

Now, I'm not saying you're wrong and stupid for believing any of these things. I'm just expressing my views. If you can give me legitimate answers to my questions, I'd be glad to hear them. Maybe you can convert me. But trust me, it won't be easy, people have tried before. But I always try to keep an open mind.