Kina's Journal

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*note...

I am not advocating any of this, simply providing a starting point for speculation.

I *especially* in no way am advocating bashing religion. Although I often wish to remain anonymous with my faith online, I will in this case firmly state that I am a Christian, but I also consider myself many other things. I believe in many things (if you ever really care to know, you may ask), and one of them is that at the end, with all religions, all it comes down to is humbling yourself before God. Whatever faith (and I use the word FAITH, not religion) that comes from I think has its own valid reasons for being; at its core.

I think what they are dealing with here is extremism; of course. Because God is perfect, but religion is man made, and degrades over time; thus corrupts. Especially those with power. (even those with power of a religion) anyway.

I do think that Religion was in many ways a form of control for people a long time ago. But then again, so is government, now. I think at the core of it, if you had perfect, saintly leaders who were completely selfless in charge of a town, and if that religion was in charge of a society.. it would essentially be perfect. If anything, it would be an ideal society. Wouldn't you want to live in a world where you had free will, were loved, and the general guidelines were to be selfless, humble, and love others? Where the point of life was not to make money, but to worship something higher, something eternal.. love itself?

I think having people who believe in something higher than themselves of any kind automatically makes them better leaders when put into a position of power. I'd much rather them in charge than someone who's only interests are monetary.

Think of it. It's harder to do, because it's the RIGHT thing. Living for someone other than yourself.. if only everyone did it. If the driving force of a society was NOT commercialism, marketing, advertising and money, but instead love, respect and God, then essentially we would eliminate many problems. Debt, war, hunger, and my personal favourite, damage to the environment. The main reason we are trashing our environment is because it is too expensive to live sustainably, takes too long, we are lazy, and wasteful. If the main system was not capitalism, not something where we are only made to buy and consume, then things would change.

If only everyone thought of everyone else instead of themselves.. well.. then it would be heaven on earth.

Anyway, thanks for reading/commenting, you guys.

God bless.