On Faith and Religion

Not believing in Jesus Christ doesn't mean you are an anti-christ already. “Anti” is such a derogatory term. Not believing in Christ simply means you just don’t believe in him neither you are against him. It’s just that, for people like me, I don’t know what to believe in anymore. Religions present this and that who-about facts about Jesus Christ. They are so many that they clash and make me confuse. According to Karl Marx, religion is the opium of the people. It is a pie in the sky when you die. It is an apparatus created by institutions called church to make people submit to beliefs and not question it, therefore, it is an instrument for the oppressed (although I really don’t understand what oppressed means and how it is different from suppressed and repressed).

I remember one quote saying that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. When I googled who said it, it appeared that it was written in the book of Proverbs 9:10. Socrates also said that the admission of ignorance is the start of wisdom, thus the quote “All I know is I know nothing”.

I know nothing about things like this so I’m in an endless search for the truth. I have to admit that I sometimes (or most of the times) have shortcomings that I lack the time to read, search, and study on my own about God (and Jesus Christ). I believe that there is one God who controls everything, who monitors our every activity like the idea of post-structuralism by Michel Foucalt also exemplified by the novel 1984 by George Orwell (although I haven’t read the book yet but that was what I heard the idea of the book) and by the reality TV show Big Brother (Pinoy Big Brother). He sees everything and rewards and punishes people according to the norms set by Him and by mankind.

I want to end it here because this is really a hard and hot topic of debate. I don’t want to go any further because my knowledge about this is very limited. I made a promise to myself to study all of these ideas. Sometimes I envy those atheists because although they don’t believe in God, they are well read and they can defend their selves when asked why they don’t believe in God. They know and they studied it very well and they are not just any assholes who speak shitty things.