Initial: Frederick
Profession: Psychology Undergraduate
Birthday: days left
Height: 1.76m
Weight: 63kg
Blood Type: A+
Waist size: 29-30 inches
Hobbies: Blogging; Reading; Songs & Movies; Chill out
Talent: Writing; Acting; Singing; Accents
Favourite Food:
Italian Food;
Kimchi Chigae;
Roti Prata
Most Disliked Food: Anything crustacean - due to allergy
Favourite Songs to Sing to: For You (self-composed) & The Promise
Favourite Body Parts: Nose; Jaws
Schools: Pei Chun Public School (1989 - 1995); Chong Boon Secondary School (1996 - 1999); Nanyang Polytechnic (2000 - 2003); Monash University (2006 - )
Current Pursuit: Bachelor of Behavioural Science
Research Interest: Evolutionary Psychology
Other Interests: Evolution; Genetics
Contact:
frederikan@live.co.uk
December 20, 2007
Terrible days this week... what a hard time I have with my laptop's wireless internet connection! I only managed to log in now because I am using the direct local area connection to access the web. This is so troublesome and my limited knowledge of technological or computer stuffs only makes things worse. Anyway, Christmas is just around the corner and everyone (including me), is already getting presents for their friends and love ones. I think Christmas is rather commercialised these days and well, for me it's just another holiday to enjoy.
What about author of the God Delusion, Richard Dawkins? Jeremy Vine interviewed him regarding the singing of Christmas songs despite one's disbelief in God and being an Atheist. Dawkins shared his opinion on air. Check it out..
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The reason why some Christians are trying to evangelise during Christmas season and Easter is that they believe that the world needs to be saved so that Jesus' word would come true, and He would make His second coming. But honestly, there are millions of us in this world and everyone is different in many ways, including our mindset and the way we perceive things. Therefore, it is impossible for every living human being on earth to subscribe to a universal thinking or belief system. If that is the case, there is no freedom of choice. However, since Christians claim that God gave men the freedom of choice, then let each person determine what he or she would like to embrace. But if embracing something which the Christian bible claimed would cause one to end up in hell, then what is the use of free choice then? Isn't it an excuse for an apparent and visible biblical verbal threat? The consequence for having a bad ending is due to bad decisions, but the evidence for the consequence of finding one's soul in hell has a lot to show up. Can the Theologians prove it? No one can. Why should we believe that one would go to hell for not embracing Christianity? If I would die one day and God questions me of my disbelief, my answers would be so straightforward - "Not enough evidence sire, not enough evidence."; "Why would I call you Father if you have not shown yourself physically?"; "If only you have appeared again and again such that not only faith can prove, but evidence, science, logic, reason, physics, and all human senses could detect your presence and reality, then you wouldn't have to go through the trouble of sending me and others to hell. It saves your effort really."
This delusional belief that the whole world needs to be saved is slightly equivalent to the Muslim's thirst for world conquest and domination. The difference is that one is through Jihad, and the other, by softer and non-violent means, compassionate evangelism. But despite all these talks of how religion is contagious and manipulative, I still enjoy the lightings and decorations at Orchard Road. I like to listen to Christmas songs and sing to Christmas songs even though I am consciously aware that this religion is questionable. The Christian culture is expanding over the world, thanks to evangelists who brought people to their home church just to see themselves rising up to a cell group leader's position, or any other "Christianly" and "Churchly" respected position. Yes, and they love to see new faces coming to church every weekend just to join them in the singing, shouting, screaming, jumping, clapping, and waving, not forgetting comparing clothes. Although there is an increase in the number of church goers, I do not suppose everyone goes to church for the same purpose or intention. So I guess Professor Dawkins was right. Church goers may enjoy the praise and worship, as well as some weekend tips of how to live a better life out in the real world... but they may not completely believe that Jesus actually exist or perhaps, they may think that God only exists in their hearts and that's it. Church goers may not be Christians, but they aspire to be a better person thanks to the sermons by pastors (who are also moderate Christians) who wants to engage themselves in the secular world and marketplace, in order to be able to bring more people to church.
Such is the reality of the church these days - if you are bringing somebody to church, you better have something good to offer, such as a rock band, a foreign spiritual and motivational speaker, a grand looking auditorium, good sermons that provide moral tips on how to become a leader in the secular society, and of course not forgetting, nice shapely attractive people in the church to look at. If a church is plain and simple, no one would go! Isn't this simple enough? That the megachurches are solely aiming for the quantitative growth but second the quality of its humanity and morality concerning the way they perceive their way of life - in fact, not much critical thinking has been involved if one is a staunch Christian. One example would be how my would-be ex-cell group leader treat my criticisms, agnosticism, and scepticism of the bible and Christianity. Whenever I tried to discuss, not just with him, but to other church-going individuals about my agnosticism, he would interfere and say that I would stumble some people's faith. Well, if faith can be stumbled by just mere words of harmless discussion or reasoning, it goes to show how reliable biblical sources are. I have never heard of Scientists saying that their conclusions to their hypotheses have been stumbled, because what is tested and proven is evident. There will be no conclusions without evidence and constant postulation. There is hardly any faith in Science, unless one is putting a huge amount of trust in one's constructed hypotheses that there is a much greater effect to be evident at the end of the study. Well, even so, one should not come to a strict conclusion just because it has not been shown. This is something faith can never do.
I don't believe that the whole world needs to be saved. I don't believe that people should not question religion. I don't believe that people should keep religion out of the topic during meaningful conversations. I don't believe that having faith in the supernatural would be enough to live a life of fulfilment.
I believe that there are so much to enjoy in this world and this life time, that we should all make the best out of it since this is the only life we have.
Anyway, Merry Christmas to everyone in advance... I hope I could be able to get my internet connection fixed by Christmas or perhaps the start of the new year.
Once again, HAPPY HOLIDAYS PEOPLE!!!
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