after a long very 'nakakakilig' day....
i got home, got on the net, surfed, conversed online with some friends, watched the new transformers trailer (AWESOME DUDE!!! check it out at
www.cybph.com - thanks
alex), ate sushi, made a dare (i hope you do it
pao), read some emails and then i read one entry somewhere in this blogosphere that really pissed me off...
im not even going to link to the entry because the very logic in the person's argument disgusts me that i dont even want to infect anyone of his 'blasphemous' heresies... (good thing im not quoting anyone or i would be flooded with unwanted arguments about how wrong i am)... Im not a fanatic. that's the last thing i will ever be. except that whenever my beliefs are being grounded to powder, i would feel the need to defend whatever it is that i hold in my heart... i think this is what they call pride. i think. im not sure... but reading through the entry and comments of the post, i just wanted to prove to myself that none of that 'logical' crap is true.
im not one to argue about faith and belief and religion. I dont even consider myself a very religious person... sure i go to church regularly, i teach the choir and i am very much involved in other ministries, but religion is a lifestyle... and i still have imperfections in my life that cannot be counted as decisions based on my faith... i still have a long way to go... but i do know that i believe in God more than anything because of these imperfections... The more imperfections I find, the more i know that God is watching over me because im getting by without a scratch.
if you do not have faith, you cannot pose to know what it is that we have in our hearts when it comes to believing in God. i prefer to keep my convictions to myself without having to shove it down everyone elses' throats. but when it is shoved into mine (solicited or unsolicited), I have the right to throw up and say something like- 'yuck'. i know you didnt ask me to read your blog, i just happened to stumble upon it. the same way i am not asking you to read mine if you chance to do the same...
i cannot blame religious fundamentalist fanatics who would start an uproar to remove or prevent some controversial photo or movie that was well publicized... you stepped on their boundaries, you made fun of their convictions, you say that it was done without any intention of harming anyone, but the fact still remains that you used someone elses symbols of faith as your own symbol of mockery or even lightly as entertainment. If you call that self expression, then it is amusing that you call yourself intellectuals... in my terms, i would call you stupid...
there are always borders, boundaries, limitations, to everything and anything under the sun. when these fanatics go haywire and start hurting other people, yes that is the best reason for people to get mad... but do not blame who they worship... when there are stalkers who go crazy, we do not judge the celebrity they are obsessing over... when i go crazy, i dont blame the sugar... i blame me.
God is beyond our comprehension. He created the world! Unless we know how to create a world, only then can we understand His ways, His movements, His decisions, His methods... Only then do we earn the right to judge Him. Only then do we earn the right to disbelieve Him. You may ask, how can we believe something we do not understand? But i ask you, how can you deny something you cannot grasp? just because to our lame minds, we cannot understand, that does not make something untrue...
i end with a thought...
to those who do not believe that there is a God, let us consider this moment that you are right and us God-fearing- believing individuals are wrong, what do we all get?
> you get a sense of superiority (coz you were right) and pride... i guess... and us- we are just plain fanatics (like those collectors who spend a lot of money on their collections). When we all die, our bodies are buried and eaten by worms, our souls- oh in this instance we dont have souls...
but what if we were right? what do we all get?
> You have this entire lifetime to get right with God. If you read your Bible (which i bet you dont because i dont do it that often either but i konw i should...), there is this sin of unbelief that you are guilty of... for it is appointed unto man once to die, and after this, the judgement... We all get judged... but for those who trusted God they get heaven... and for those who chose to deny He exists get, ofcourse... you know... if you wanna find out, read your Bible (Rev 21:8).
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you know those 20 seconds right after someone unknowingly steps on your toes and grinds it because they are oblivious to what they are doing to you... you have to shout for this person to get off, you have to cry in pain... 20 seconds of excruciating pain... 20 seconds of screaming... 20 seconds of expressing your predicament... it is your right to say something... its not the person's fault because he had no intentions of stepping on your toes... its not your fault either because we all have the right to wear open toed sandals... but boundaries were crossed... toes were stepped on...
my beliefs were stomped on... i had to say something... doesnt mean it will never happen again... doesnt mean i should just shut up either...
