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The jeepney ride home was perhaps the quickest one I ever took. Not because of the vehicle's speed nor of the volume of the traffic. It's because I was disturbed the whole time.
My last class for the day is math and our prof suddenly asked something about rapture while she was busy writing something on the board.
This rapture.. thingy.. was, as I gathered, about people suddenly disappearing and going to heaven. Now, along this conversation, my prof suddenly said that: "May mga mabuting tao din sa impyerno. Ang tanging ticket mo para umakyat sa langit ay yung maniwala ka kay Jesus [There are good people in hell too. The only way you can get to heaven is through Jesus]" and then starting there, something within me started stirring.
I do respect her religious views as much as I respect everyone else's but to tell someone that s/he aren't going to heaven because s/he do not believe in the same things as you do is, I believe, a bit out of line. It's almost the same as telling out right that your worth is almost equal to that of demons.
If what she said is how things really work, then it would be a moral justification for people that do immoral things that even though they do such things, as long as they believe in Jesus, they will go to heaven. Of course, a rebuttal to this statement is that if they really believe in Jesus, they would not do immoral things, which is ideally true but religion nowadays has generally become a mere moral convenience. If having said that a criteria to enter heaven is through Jesus, then you just denied entry to 66% of the world's population. [according to Wikipedia]. It defeats the purpose of having a "fair and just" God if such a system exists. If we assume that God is as perfect as we can think of (and possibly beyond, but that's out of the question), wouldn't it make you ask how could s/he/it be so - I daresay- crude?
Right now, I'm denied entry to heaven.
.. and where else to go other than hell?
Monday, September 10, 2007
Heaven and Hell
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Pretty freaky, I've thought about the same thing for some time now. The thought of even though everything you do you do out of love and kindness, and always put others before you, but don't believe in Jesus or the Christian God sends you spiralling downwards, that's just illogical, plain and simple...
yeah, i've always thought that the whole system people have created is too much.. i mean, we dont really know how things work in the universe..even scientific knowledge might be wrong...anyway, yeah, that's why i've never had any problem with atheists and agnostics..
but hey, cut your prof some slack, she may just be a victim of the standards of the society she grew up in :P
i like these kinds of blogs, hahaha :P
well.. as I said, I respect how she view things.. but putting it upon us like it's some kind of absolute is what I couldn't stand.
yeah, people do that dont they, forcing their beliefs on others as if it was the most natural thing to do.
ooh, absolute...controversial word XD
sorry, i'm just ranting, i like reading and talking about things that not a lot of people understand XD
whoops, sorry, that comment by "kristina" is actually me, i'm using her pc that's why :P
One thing that bugs me is how many of the (theistic) world religions (i.e. Christianity, and possibly others, but I lack the knowledge to criticise them) condemn people who don't believe in them.
Religious people are too caught up in semantics to see the big picture.
In other words...
If the gods we believe in are so powerful and wise, why did they leave the interpretation of their religions up to us?
:p
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