Tuesday, August 31, 2010

My God's better than your God

I'm struggling to understand how people twist their minds into pretzels so that they can continue to believe the nonsense they believe. One example is the recent debates over the construction of an Islamic center a couple blocks from the World Trade Center site known as Ground Zero. It seems that some people believe their God is more deserving than other Gods to have special worship centers close to supposedly hallowed ground.

From what I can tell, some Christians are claiming that their god is better than the Muslim god. I'm really confused because I grew up as a Catholic, and I was taught that the Jews, the Christians, and the Muslims all believed in the same god, but the major difference was the relationship of this guy named Jesus to the three religions.

Maybe that was just my simplistic take as I was being indoctrinated, but that still sticks with me today. If that Is the case, then what are these imbeciles fighting about? When you get right down to it, if there was a god, I'm sure he/she would have taken care of deciding long ago which of the Big Three was supreme. Since that hasn't happened, I'm guessing that there are no gods and that these three groups are just after power and control over other people to make them feel like they have a purpose in life. Since without God, there is no purpose, right?

Funny that it's the atheists who seem to have a better idea of what we should be doing with our lives than any of the god chasers. I'm all for shipping all the faithful from the three religions to some desert somewhere and letting them spend the rest of their lives in an all out smack-down. Winner takes all -- of the desert anyway. That would clean out the rest of the earth for those of us who just want to get on with our lives and enjoy the world around us while we exist.

The winners of the smack down would be able to pray to their god for sustenance in the desert and be able to smugly look down their noses at the rest of us -- while they died of thirst and hunger.

Oh well, I guess that is just too much to hope for.

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