God is (Abstract Noun)

Beauty, Love, Joy, A first kiss. You name it, someone has asserted it. The religious love slapping their god onto anything with a good PR rating. Peace? God. A sunny day? God. Morals? God.  Of course, they ignore that all of these things exist with or without their religion and in different cultures all around the world. It sure seems like a person’s admiration for God has absolutely zero impact on their quality of life.

Strangely, their God seems less than omnipresent once the conversation turns to the negative aspects of existence; miscarriages, cancer, natural disasters, etc. Really, the Big G has one hell of a racket going. He gets the credit for all the good shit and shucks the blame for all of the bad.

It is a magnificent and terrible shame that so many of us would rather write off the many phenomena of our universe as God’s Work, rather than pursuing an actual understanding of it. Religions give you all the answers, usually right there on paper. They serve to stifle curiosity and replace it with a form of vapid contentment.

So, am I saying contentment is bad?

If that contentment is derived from deception and logical fallacies, then hell yes it is bad. All of the beauty and awesomeness of the world, of the universe, exists independent from any theology. It is as it is, whether we choose to understand it or not.

And how is that? Because it is real and your religion is not.