THE WORLD NEEDS TO COME TO AN END


TOO MUCH SHIT GOING ON THAT JUST ISN'T RIGHT

THE END.

Demanding objective analysis

A few days back, I came home from yet another tiring day at work and decided to watch a bit of television. Now, granted, most of what's on there is nonsense mixed with a bit of truth and cooked in a pot of lies, but nonetheless, my mind had to unwind from the days work, and, TV, seemed a start.

Flipping through the channels, I came across a number of people who had been scheduled for the hour on CNN's Larry King. From time to time, his show has had some substance, and at most warrants a few minutes before changing the channel. What immediately caught my attention was a sobbing mother who sat there proclaiming that her young daughter had been tragically raped and killed, and whether or not a person like that can and should be rehabilitated into society. Among her were a few others who had similar situations and their answers varied.

What really caught my attention, and sort of forced me to add another post to my blog was an all-too familiar answer given by her, to a question from Larry. The jest of the question was how do you deal with the pain and suffering on a daily basis. Her answer came in the form of praising GOD for giving her the strength to go on and cope with the tragedy. And with out GOD she would certainly fail to do so and so on...

WAS SHE SERIOUS?

I could hardly understand how this women who has been through such a tragedy, come to such a conclusion with out questioning the act itself. I seemed to recall the quote "Faith: not wanting to know what is true" by Nietzsche shouting out at me as she and the rest of the panel seemed to acknowledge it and move on. How disillusioned is our society where religion can not explain the act itself, but some how offer the fact that you yourself can not continue without the help of the all-loving and caring god?

Where was this all-loving and caring god during the raping of that innocent child? Where was he during the brutal act of murder, and more important, how could that mother site there and just not pose the very same questions I am?

I was very sure I had overlooked something, I’m sure anyone would question if put in a similar situation. And, as the show continued, I expressly looked for that. I looked for the explanation that perhaps this women had offered herself to look past these simple yet unanswered questions to realize that god had and was helping her cope with this. Unfortunately, none of those answers came and the show ended.

Even now, I’m taken back as responses such as these fill our world. How, to no avail, can humanity put their beliefs and trust and hearts into a god with out any objective reasoning?

Here, folks, is my answer to this puzzle; our hearts are weak and our minds are fickle, we, as a society needs to fill the gaps that just don’t make sense. And, moreover, to get a grasp of what we don’t understand. I truly feel that for some, religion adequately, yet falsely, accomplishes this.

My thoughts will always remain the same; can we change as a whole, can we grow and overlook the need for a god and realize that all the help and support we’ll ever need is right here on earth in the very humans we interact with.