Stumble it!The Church of the Naked Truth
posted in autohagiographical by themaiden |People in my life have asked me why the related ideas of God and religion appear so often in my work. Apparently, I give the impression that I am a religious sort. Yet, at the same time, I am vehemently anti-christian.
I am religious in a sense. I’d like to believe in magic, in immortality, and in justice. I think I’d be quite happy dining with Ewoks, working magic or drinking blood with Akasha. But so far, I’ve not found the part where I get to choose. To my great irritation, fact seems to be fact. And I am stuck with it.
I differ from the usual believer in that I once made the decision that if I were going to worship, I was going to worship the right god. I was bright enough to realize that the world view within which I was raised was not the only game in town, and that had I been raised elsewhere strange notions would fill my mind and appear every bit as obviously true as talking bushes that burn but don’t burn up, and the virgin birth.
So I started looking. That is when it all went wrong.
It turns out to be impossible to support one religion over another. The same arguments prove any religion that gets plugged into the formula.
It also turns out that supporting the basic tenants of religion, as anything more than culture and psychology, is impossible. That is, key elements such as the supernatural fail any test I’ve seen devised.
Truly, I wish it were not so, but such is what is.
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