A few of my friends posted a video on Facebook the other day, and it was a friendly debate between an atheist and a christian on a late night talk show called “Totally Biased.” They started off talking, and I was impressed how they two were interacting, especially how great the christian guy actually was.
A debate between an atheist and a Christian."A debate between an atheist and a Christian has quite a surprising result. You should share this if you wish every disagreement went just like this..." - Upworthy about this clip from Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell ( W. Kamau Bell)
Posted by Jamie Kilstein on Saturday, April 25, 2015
It never got heated, and both made great points. But there was one line in there that got me, because I had used it several times before, but he said it quite eloquently:
"So my take is if I get up to Heaven and there is a God and he's like, 'You were wrong, how did you live your life?' And I'm like, 'I tried to help people, I tried to give to charity, I didn't know if you were real, there was no evidence,' and he was like, 'Well, you didn't worship me every day.' And I'm like, 'Fine. Send me wherever is as far away from here as possible because you're a sociopath!'"
THIS is how I feel when christians get all christian on me. The christian bible is full of analogies, so let me do the one I always say. “When I go and rescue a dog, I don’t do it so that dog will worship me, I do it to give the dog a better life.” If I did it to get worshiped, what kind of being am I?
I fully believe we were all given this life to enjoy, this world is beautiful and amazing. We were all given morality to know right from wrong. The biggest evil in the world, when you look at it from this direction IS religion. It has divided us beyond any possible belief. It might be the point of a popular song, but imagine if there was no religion, and we could work together as the human race?
In the end, I’m not saying anything one way or another, because I don’t know for sure. But when I look at this world, I don’t want to believe its all some crazy coincidence. And when I think about everything that’s out there, I know in the end it doesn’t matter. We are in a huge playground, full of beauty and mystery, if it wasn’t put here for us to enjoy, if it wasn’t put here as a test to see how well we do this thing called life, then there’s something wrong with...well, everything.
To quote another song, “I’m not a slave, to a God, that doesn’t exist.” No one is a slave. Most of us learned that slavery is reprehensible, that dictatorships are bad, and freedom on all levels is the most wonderful thing, the right thing. Why do people break the bonds of others to be willingly enslaved to some factious dictator that the preacher believes is real, that the preacher makes up dogma to control you for?
My advice is the simplest of advices. Find out for yourself what is out there, find out what you believe before you believe what some book says, or some other man says. The truth is within you. It always has been and always will be.
