So yesterday I was at church with my girlfriend, and her Grandfather was doing the service. He’s a distinguished figure in the community and all and does guest services around the area all the time. Well after the service he asked me if I was baptized. My girlfriend and I are getting married soon and maybe he’s starting to feel a bit uneasy about an un-baptized, no-communion taking, not-even-attending-church-often, Doesn’t-really-believe-in-the-principles-of-organized-religion heathen marrying his sweet granddaughter. I’m not an atheist (though I can understand that position) but I just feel that organized religion just contains a lot of mumbo-jumbo, and represses questioning, and borrows (essentially) its entire belief structure from the pagan religions that it now condemns. Easter BTW is just an old celebration of spring which is why rabbits lay eggs; an old medieval myth was that some god or something turned birds into rabbits on that day.

So now I’m worried that he’s going to sneak up behind me and chuck a glass of water at me or something to indoctrinate me.

I’m sure Jesus was a great guy and all, and maybe he was lord, but honestly there really isn’t a whole lot of information in the bible. I don’t believe in a vengeful god, and I certainly don’t believe in a god that would punish those that would seek their own answers instead of following what some church guy says and his congregation of people who are frankly WAY too friendly and frighten me.

Gramps is a good guy but I’m not going to let any mind-numbing rituals get in the way of my quest to find my own answers.


Of course on this question, dear readers, I won’t mind listening to some of your takes:

If there is a purpose to the existence of the universe (including whatever god or gods you may believe in), then once that purpose has been fulfilled, should not the universe (and God and all things) end? What would the purpose be in its continuing?

If the universe does not end, how can it have a purpose?

Whoa, haven’t figured this one out yet…