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
January 14, 2008
I am tormented by the tyranny of the Christian faith. Over and over, those horrible believers were constantly in conflict against the core of my very own principle. For years I've been involved in church and giving in my best ability to serve and my original purpose was intended to glorify Lord Jesus. But with relationship with God, comes a responsibility for relationship with people. I felt unappreciated by my leaders, and my members... as if I was insignificant to them, and that all my efforts and time I've put in to contribute to my own cell group have been forgotten. Here I am after eight long years telling myself that everything is over. I've had enough... and if people still do not understand this, there is nothing more I could do to make them understand the way I am feeling. As far as I am concerned, I had to stop all these nonsense in my life right now. And as I started to hate Christianity and move away from this belief, I am living a very happy life free from faiths, superstitions, and all those spiritual nonsense that has been plaguing my life and my principles.
It's funny isn't it? Sometimes, when we adopt a belief which we once thought it would do us any good, until a time when something contradictory happened, and we started questioning its usefulness and reliability. That is when we come to term with whether or not we choose to continue believing the same way that we used to believe, or move on to another set of values and principles that would make us an even better person other than Christianity and religion themselves. We come to term with what is right to us, when we feel that we should all not accept things which are ambiguously factual and things which lack evidence to even clearly explain itself in the first place.
I've finally found something in my life that makes me free and happy, which is what I have been seeking after for my entire life. It is like falling in love with such freedom of choice and happiness like there's no tomorrow. It doesn't matter if I go to heaven or hell for that matter... because everyone including Christians are going to be judged in the end, and there would be more people in hell than in heaven anyway, so why the heck should I bother about such life-after-death myth or rumours? I would rather make the best out of this life time being happy and doing the things which I could, hopefully, make a difference in the society I'm living in, than to waste my efforts in worrying about the afterlife. There's much more things to do here than to prepare for death like any other uber religious people do.
Yes, death is a goal, but it should not be our focus. Death should be the warning sign to all of us, that life is short. And therefore, we should all embrace this beautiful and wonderful opportunity in our pursuit of our own Promised Land.
Some of you may ask me why do I hate religion. One reason could be due to my bad experience in church for over eight long years of my life. Other main reasons are because, in my opinion:
Religion divides people. It literally separates society in the way we each view the world as what is described in our holy texts. Whether their intentions were for good or better human morals, they still inevitably separate society with interaction along side the flaws of human nature. Because of our individual differences, organized religions often fail in uniting humanity with the concept of absolutism. Furthermore, as beliefs influence our ultimate action and hence alter our destiny, it is no question that our individual beliefs, values, and principles, being different in all aspects, shapes our destinies differently. We all have our own destinies and purpose in life, and all these springs forth from the beliefs that we personally hold within ourselves. Thus, to this day, as organised religion plans to unite humanity in the ultimate belief in a single deity, it failed to embrace modern scientific evidence, modern sense of morality, reason, and rationality... and beyond that, failed to explain itself by being contradictory to what it also means by saying, "We each have our own destiny in God". Individual differences within a single imperialist authority, does not equate to the logic of relativity within the variation of absolutes. It merely goes the other way round by saying that in all relativity, there are absolutes, and that in all definitions, there is one truth in each of them. However, the down-side-up logic explains that in every truth lies variations of perceptions and definitions, both relative in their own nature - meaning, in every absolutes, there are relativity, subjected to every definitions. Why not put it this way - "Our beliefs and meanings we give to our life and the things we sense and touch, are the result of our existence". God did not give meaning or purpose to our lives, but rather, we give meaning to it and thus, that is how we are defined. We are defined by the meanings we give to ourselves. COGITO, ERGO SUM - I think, therefore I am.
With religion separating society, it will inevitably separates individual to the point of marriage and other intimate relationships. It is a gross authority that forbids certain relationships that they deemed demonizing or improperly evil, such as homosexuality and the yoke between believers and unbelievers. The Christian faith is one very good testimony of such bigotry and disgusting view of these individuals, without considering the essence of love within such relationships - about the way it is formed just like any other forms of love and intimacy - it demonizes such acts as sinful and improper. This is the problem with faiths thriving on the absolutes, whereby in the condition of humanity, there is no absolutes.
The danger of religion not only lies in the denial of scientific facts, but also in its opposite operation against the discovery of truth. Unlike Science, religion does not construct and disprove its own hypotheses based on natural causes, it basically form conclusions out of supernatural hypotheses that is impossible to disprove. It basically explains nothing, drawing merely extraordinary conclusions with extraordinary explanations to explain extraordinary causes. And yet, people around the world were fighting and murdering one another in the name of their so called extraordinary claims of God and other mythical supernatural beings. Any normal intelligent person could tell that this is so ridiculous.
Do I leave the Christian faith because I'm disillusioned?
Yes, I am. I am disillusioned by how I was treated and the observations I've made all these eight years being actively involved in church. Not just that, I'm disappointed that I do not get most of my doubts answered in the most satisfactory way. Of course, there are billions of things that we don't know (i.e. is there an afterlife etc), but isn't embracing science, the constant seeking and discovery of new evidence, more rational and satisfactory than embracing a particular faith that doesn't explain anything nor put its religious hypotheses on the line in the first place?
It is time we wake up to this day and age of reason, and start thinking about the next step in life to which we should make the best of, rather than just merely "investing" in the treasures up in heaven that we might or might not get after we die. Then again, the importance of reason and rational thinking must not be excluded from the ingredients of daily living. What would happen to this world if everyone base their rationality and actions upon such feeble entity like faith?
The world would be so much better without extraordinary claims...
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