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April 28, 2003

Religion

What he said.

Ed Weathers at the Memphis Flyer has a few things to say about religion. I take it that he's a masochist, because he is bound to receive every kind of abuse for his blunt statements, up to and including death threats.

It just so happens, though, that I agree with him. Wholeheartedly.

The best bit of the whole piece, I think, was this:

A man truly awake does not need religion. He doesn’t need gods. He doesn’t need miracles. He doesn’t need holy lands here below or celestial heavens up above. For him, life in this universe is itself holy, as is every patch of ground and every path he walks. Life itself is enough of a miracle. To believe in a god who made this life is to believe in a miracle even greater than this miracle. Who needs more than one unfathomable miracle? Existence is a fluke, a freak, a wonder, a dream, a bizarre uncanny thing. Our own consciousness of this existence is so incredible a phenomenon that I don’t understand why anyone feels the need to believe in anything else more "spiritual." It's all spiritual. It's all true magic. Why add imagined magic to explain the magic that is right before us?

I'm very happy to see someone else say publically what I have said many times, both in public and privately. As far as I'm concerned, religion is as necessary to human beings as bicycles are to fish. Or even less.

I doubt, though, that I will be receiving any death threats. There are, what, two or three of you, maybe, reading this thing?

Posted by Frank at April 28, 2003 8:20 PM

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Amen!
As long as men use GOD and religion as a rational for behavior they can justify treating each other as mere shit.
My God says your god is a crook so therefore I have every right in heaven to smite you and laugh as you rot in hell.

I protest as well!

Posted by: elvis56 at April 29, 2003 2:56 PM