By: Skye Lyon
Can man, unbound by any form of religion, truly be fulfilled in his life? Well…not really.
It is achievable for any man, women, child, plant, or animal to venture off into his own pleasures and worthless ambitions without the guiding of a supreme being. For those who are not shackled to the chains of religion realize that the stereotype or title personifying a certain faith may not suit them. Maybe they find themselves…just being content with the fact that they are living in the here and the now. Neither the past nor the self destined future does not define the kind of people we are or will become.
Living either with or without a God poses its strengths and doubts.
Through the eyes of Jean Paul Sartre, a French Existentialist philosopher, is posited, “If there is no God, then everything is permissible, as a result man is forlorn, because neither within him nor without does he find anything to cling to. He cannot start making excuses for himself.”
Humans, being the self-centered, egocentric, power driven creations that we are do not want to take the full responsibility or blame for our own faults, not a big surprise. For some odd reason, we can never own up to all the misfortunes that happen in our everyday life that affect others around us…and therefore we meet our scapegoat, our belief system.
Taking any religion and transforming it into our own personal safety net is where innocence and virtue fade away indefinitely from our mind. To pursue our dark, foul advances in life and justify them with the preconceived notion of “my religion made me do it” or “it was God’s will” does not solve anything. Most people are extremely naive to the fact that they lead themselves to their own demise through their appetites and sinful vices. The hardcore, pious freaks of the world explain their deranged behavior as something that a divine deity would have acted and performed accordingly.
No, God did not make you commit divine suicide killing thousands of innocent people. No, it was not God who made you mistreat and discriminate against others of different racial and ethnic backgrounds. No wars were ever waged for the pleasing of any God without there being initial ulterior motives.
No divine power would instill sheer hatred into your mind and cause you to perform horrifying and fatal actions to your fellow man.
Some of those “creatures” walk among us all the time and can never truly look at themselves in the mirror and say, “I am at peace.”
No matter what you believe, it does not matter. No one can hide from the eternal, overbearing sunbeams that radiate from the truth. It will not work.
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