Every year of my life for the last twelve years has been dominated by a catholic school, be it St. Dom's High or St. Athenasius St. Johns k-8, and therefore I have been sufficiently doused with the catholic religion and its teachings. But when you truly think about it, religion has a lot of holes in it. I can't even be sure if I should continue to be a catholic or drop the whole thing altogether. Currently, I consider myself borderline athiest or radically indecisive.
Take this passage for example: Mathew 15:21-28 from the New American Bible
Then Jesus went from that place and withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanite woman of that district came and called out, "Have pity on my, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is tormented by a demon." But he did not say a word to her. His disciples came and asked him, "Send her away, for she keeps calling out after us." He said in reply, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel." But the woman came and did him homage, sayoing, "Lord, help me." He said in reply, "It is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs." She said, "Please, Lord, for even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from the table of their masters." Then Jesus said to her in reply, "O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you with." And her daughter was healed from that hour.
Every where I go I see stickers and banners that say WWJD? (What Would Jesus Do?) and with this passage in mind I really wonder if that is a good saying for our kids. Jesus has just ignored, then rejected and insulted someone who asked for his help. Sounds like a fine example for my kids. Jesus says many times to not judge others and yet here he is, judging this woman because she's a Canaanite, calling her a dog. He gives all these promises that God will answer our prayers and help us when we need it, yet he rejects this poor woman.
This is one reason why religion is such a problem with me. Jesus and God often contradict the character traits that priests and religion teachers shove on to us. No one can really prove whether Jesus ever historically existed either. The New Testiment is all based on heresy. None of the evangelists, Matt, Mark, Luke and John, knew Jesus. Matt, I have been told by a nun, was not the same tax collecter in the Gospels. And if Jesus did exist, the miracles don't mean anything; miracle workers were all over the place during the times of Jesus. There are no known records of Jesus been crucified by the Romans either. Jesus remains an enigma, supressing my faith in religion.
And yet, I can't bring myself to become a full-blown athiest either. The science of this world is amazing. The complexity of life, DNA, cellular respiration, cellular protiens and so on, is so complex that these chemicals could not have simply mixed together by chance. For example, there is one amino acid that cannot exist out of the cytoplasm of the cell and yet the cell cannot exist without that particular amino. Human beings can reason things out, can love, laugh, joke and experiance life like no other lifeform we know of and yet the mind is suppose to be simply one big chemical reaction? I don't think so, I believe there is more to it then that. God? Maybe. I haven't been able to decide.
In other news, I recently perused through a number of blogs, simply to see what was out there. First of all, let me say, people are interesting. Mr. Pingle, I'm sorry I made fun of you, but your name is funny. Once you pop, you can't . . . anyways everyone in America seems to have something to say about their life and opinions, which is all well and good, but to my horror, I run into some rather shady blogs. First of all, there was one talking about getting work skills and the most recent post was about how to get a blowjob! Then I run into the various porn blogs out there. Come on folks! I thought this was a kid-friendly site! Personally, I think that there needs to be more control on this stuff. I'm all for the .xxx domains. And any site that is pornographic should not be free to get into. This way we can keep the little ones out. And by little ones, I mean Freshmen.
What Would Jesus Do For a Klondike Bar?
J Kuhl Signing Off
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