A myspace bulletin that I disagreed with and just had to share (attn: god vs. no god)

[Snowcrafta]

The original message of this bulletin read as follows:

There are so many people on this list. I guess a lot of people aren't ashamed to stand up for what they believe in. You opened this because it said "bad news" in it ......but if it said "Jesus Christ our Lord" would you have opened it? Jesus said, "If you deny me before your friends, then I will deny you before my father." It's your choice. If you aren't ashamed to do this, repost this as bad news in ( name of your town) and put your name on the bottom.

Followed by a list that was over 850 people.

However, I've been questioning anything at all to do with religion. Due to a class I've been taking my third semester in college, the entire concept of religion has been becoming more and more hazy. The Holy Bible, a book most people consider to be sacred, has been falling frightfully into the same magnitude that such books as The Odyssey, Ramayana, and other various mythological books I've been required to read. The idea of a god-like figure doing supernatural deeds and claiming that they are a decedent of any type of God has been coming up more and more often. I've been finding it harder and harder to believe that Jesus was a human form of a God, and the things he did follows surprisingly close to the same events in other mythological books.

It is clearly obvious that some of the things that Jesus did in the bible, as well as other people did that were clearly not humanly possible. Surviving forty days in a desert without any food or water, just as an example. Scientifically speaking, it is impossible to live longer than seven days, assuming the desert was only 90 F.* If it was even hotter, the expectation when down dramatically, taking less than two days to kill someone at 120 F.

The book, to me, has been following the same pattern of a larger-than-life character doing things that are impossible. The purpose of the book, to me, was only used to teach people ways of leading a life that was not self-fulfilled. In my lifetime, none of the events that happened in the bible have played no role, and it is become increasingly more and more unbelievable to think there is some form of an afterlife, the primary reason people tend to worship a best-selling book. On top of that, to add to my disbelief that the book is just a collection of well-written myths, is how the religion itself is not just one unity. According to Wikipedia, there are at least 23 different forms of Christianity**. If a religion was to be true, why would some go about and change the way the book was originally written, changing the concepts and how it is to be perceived. That alone is enough to show me that there is no correct way of worshiping the Christan god.

To me, the entire idea of there being an omnipresent higher power in our society has become void. It is not possible, even when I try to stretch my beliefs, that there is, indeed, an invisible man in the sky. The book was originally written as a collection tales to help people lead, what we as a society believe to be, a good life that is selfless, charitable, and grateful for what we already have. We make our own lives happen in any way we choose, and there is no outside force influencing us.

My belief, that is.

*http://www.survivaltopics.com/surviv...without-water/
**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_denomination