Limbo No Longer Exists? Yet More Thoughts On Organized Religion
According to an article on Yahoo news it seems like Limbo is now a thing of the past. Or are they saying that it never existed at all?
This is one of the areas (of many) that I have a problem with organized religion. They like to tell people that things are absolute fact, that they have the truth, but every now and then they go and change what they’re teaching. If something is an absolute fact then how does it change? How do entire levels of existence, such as Limbo, cease to exist at the swipe of a pen?
To be fair, even my mother’s religion has done this. As a child I remember being told that there was a big ocean in the sky that went all around the planet, and the great flood of the bible was created when god made all of that water fall to the surface as rain.
Well, they no longer teach that.
Organized religion is something that is created by humans. It’s also edited by humans as we see in this real world example with limbo. I wish that more people would see this fact, and I really wish that this incident would open more people’s eyes to this.
Now before anyone gets their knickers in a knot let’s not jump to the assumption that I’m saying that I have “the truth”. A quick read over my posts here at Shadows In Motion will show this to not be the case.
As always, I am saying that people need to think for themselves. That they need to break away from these organized groups. Spirituality is a great and healthy thing! Allowing others to control who your friends are, allowing them to tell you what is the right way and the wrong way to do… well, anything, and in general how to live your life; those are terribly unhealthy things!
I’ll close this post with a couple of quick and simple comments:
If someone that you care about is in a wreck and they live, will you say that “god must have been watching over them”? If ‘god’ is some all powerful being then why did the wreck happen in the first place? What about the others in the wreck, did they make it out alive? What of drunk drivers who frequently live through the wreck but kill everyone else in the other vehicle - who is more worthy of protection in that situation?
People need to wake up and to begin asking some very basic questions.
Lastly, I read a statistic earlier today that really made me think. I do not know what the source is for this statistic, but its point is nonetheless succinct: “26,000 kids will die today of starvation. Why should god answer your prayer?”
Hm. Indeed.
I don’t believe that any deity is an all powerful, all knowing being, and I cringe at the incredible turmoil that people must no doubt experience as a result of believing that way.
~Steph
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