Walking into church is like walking into a relic. A mausoleum. Sure, there is often an interesting history, sometimes a progression of priests or peculiar congregations but a mausoleum nonetheless.
Church is old. Ancient. It doesn't cover new ground. It loses much of its meaning when week after week it is the same scripture readings, the same message and for what? So I can be blessed? I don't know. I don't get anything out of church. I don't relate to its message, its gods, or its ceremonies. Certainly, it has a good message at times, in terms of ethics, but this is not unique to church, or even religion. These are moralities that could be taught in school with no mention of God.
In this advent of modern science, mankind finds itself in a unique position where in the first time in history, educated people are able to question the status quo using logic and reasoning. No longer does such a church have any authority. And without this authority, the church cannot stop us from questioning. And then the questions arise, the biggest one being, where is the evidence for all of this? Or are we all just sheep? I eat the communion bread and it tastes like bread. I know I should take all this on faith but why? Why isn't there something, some teaser to let me know that I'm not just going through the motions for nothing?
And here's another one, what makes the Bible right and the Koran wrong? What makes the Koran right and the Rigveda wrong? Why is Allah false and Ahura Mazda true? How do we know who is right? Why should we be following some invisible being when there is no reason to believe one exists? I cannot default to the positive assumption of existence without some means of evidence or some logical conclusion. I can't simply believe in a religion without knowing it exists. Blind faith does not work for me.
This is why I don't go to church.
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. -Jewish Proverb
J Kuhl Signing Off
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