My thoughts about religion

First of all let me begin by saying that this is in no way a post to try and convince people of one thing or another, I respect everyone's beliefs and it is my firm belief that everyone should respect the beliefs of others, with that said, here are my thoughts about religion:

Religion is a personal thing, I will never understand the arguments around religious beliefs because no matter what your beliefs are, there is no way on earth that you can prove you are 100% correct.  Let me explain a bit further... If we are talking with an atheist (someone that does not believe in any higher being) they cannot give me a 100% certainty that there is no higher being that exists, yes they can say that science has not found anything that states that there is a God, Spirit or whatever you want to call it, but just because they have not found anything it does not mean it doesn't exist... All it means is that they have not yet found evidence and maybe they will not find any, maybe one day they will but there is always the possibility.

On the other hand if you are a firm believer of God, then you cannot possibly prove to me that God exists, there is no certain way of proving God's existence, and of course those who follow Christianity will say well the Bible is proof that God exists; well let me tell you something, while I respect the Christianity's beliefs that the Bible is a sacred book, it is in the end just a book and nothing more than a book that was written years and years and years ago and it was written by mere humans who stated that they talked to God and that God told them all of this...

Let me add to that, that a human being even when an almighty God is talking to them and telling them what to write, they can and will make a mistake, or they can change what is being told to them... And if I were to add even more... The Bible has been interpreted in way too many ways, to make me think that those were not words from an almighty perfect God, because if they were then we would not be able to interpret them in as many ways or more than we do with the law.  It is that simple...

Now I could go on and on about why religion is a personal thing and it should not be tried to be force fed to other people, or even have argue about it to the point of creating a fight between two people,  because no one will win, it is a waste of energy and time, yes I love having a good conversation about how other people believe and what they believe in, I mean I like to hear their stories and I have been lucky enough to find people that are open minded enough to have a philosophical conversation about it, that they will listen to my view and I will listen to them and then we just learn something more about the other person.  But not many people are like that, there are too many people that get so worked up about it that wars were created, and still are being created over it.

Why? I will never understand why, I really wish I could understand some of the human behavior that makes absolutely no sense to me! ohh and if you ask me if God exists, yes to me God does exist, he/she exists because I believe in him/her not because anything else, I can't prove it and I won't ever attempt to, if someone asks me why I believe that God exists well I will give them what some call testimony, but I don't expect anyone to believe me, my testimony could be something that I made up in my mind or just things that happened out of chance.  However what I can really say is that my faith rests on the fact that I know that I might be wrong and I choose to believe in something bigger, and I have my own way of practicing it.

If anyone asks me if I pray, I will answer no, I don't pray, why? because if I believe that there is a higher being that is watching over us, if this being only wants whatever is good for us then it does not matter how much I pray, I will be put in whatever path I need to be in order to get to the point where I need to be, and it will be the correct path, and even if I choose to go the other way, then it will probably take me a little longer to get to the right one but in the end I will be in the right one... Even if it is a path where I encounter sickness and a bit of suffering, even in those times when the darkness is bigger than anything else, if I believe that there is a higher being watching over me and making sure I do ok and go where I want and learn what I need to, and if that higher being is completely and absolutely in charge then it does not matter how much I pray, it won't change anything, so why pray?

I tell you what I do though, I listen, I go into my own world and I listen to what a lot might call your inner voice, others will call it intuition, others will say is God talking to you, others will say it's your guardian angels or a messenger of God, whatever it is though I listen to it, most times I can listen to it very clearly and I am able to go ahead and follow the path I am being told and I have to admit that when I do exactly as my inner voice tells me, all ends up well....

So to end this wonderful post, I will never understand people arguing over religion, I will never understand people swearing that the Bible is such a sacred book because in the end it is just a book, I will never understand people getting irritated by other people believing in things that they cannot prove and I will never understand why everyone believes that they have and that they are absolutely sure that their theory is the only correct one and that there is no space for any error for any other theory, just their own...