For all the pain and suffering that mankind has to go through,i am still at crossroads as to whether life is a Godless endeavour.For religion changed the face of us all.Born,we are one,in death we are one,but in life we are many.I might not be an exponent of empiricism but for now bear with me,as i write this testament of the hopeless, hope of a dying race who became a by-product of christianity in search of 'God' the father.Religious leaders and those who believe that there is someone super-natural,exonerate my oblique views - only for now because i am not a backsliding atheist.
Missionaries were dispensed to shores across the Atlantic to enlighten the inhabitants of the jungle of Africa about the son of Man.Jesus christ - Emmanuel(God is with us).This was followed by a pilgrimage of a host of Gold-diggers like Cecil John Rhodes and David Livingstone,to mention,but a few.The 'missionaries' were only pathfinders.And to this day,i haven't forgiven Paul Kruger and his associates.What they left,was the Soweto 1976 uprising,which claimed innocent victims like Hector Petterson:Nelson Mandela languishing in the Robben Island penitentiary for 27 years;For that reason i thought that there was no God,no religion - only chaos.Religion had screwed us all,brought one man down upon another.With this in mind my future in christianity was uncertain and the veil of temptation came forth,as i started to follow Charles Darwin's Survival of the Fittest view and read more on Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto on class struggles.I assumed that hell did not exist,never existed,and the only hell we shall ever know is the hell we lived in Soweto.
From the time we are brought into this world,our mind is affected by cosmetic and moral changes.Religion,God,beliefs,faith etc begin to play an active role in our lives.And in a diminishing majority ,we see that this very beliefs are the simple reasons why man does not want to explore possibilities of alternatives in moral or physical standards of existence.The so-called holy guardians of mankind will not accept this line of thought.It's profane and blasphemy in their eyes.
Afterall the bible was written from complied manuscripts.Of which most were from oral tradition.No one seems to know the truth.That's why Catholics,protestants and Muslims alike differ in the credibility of the bible and quran.
Thank Gooodness the world had the privilege to host critics of religion like John Lock,David Hume and Thomas Hobbes.Believe by seeing - walk by sight.Thank goodness for that Italian Francesco Petrarca to be later known as Petrarch the world over.This man single handedly tackled the secular or cultural decline that took place in the Western part of Europe between the fall of the Roman empire and eventual recovery of learning(Renaissance).
Now as i search for answers,no one seems to know what took place during the Dark ages.Was there a religion.In 1948 when Israel became a nation some manuscripts with what was widely believed to be the original handwriting of Moses were discovered by archaeologists.What puzzles me about the discovery is that no one knows if this was an original piece.And did Moses ever exist or it's just a mere fantasy?
As i further read an Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Lock it dawned to me that there is no substitute for experience.In this remarkable work,he describes the human mind at birth as a blank slate,filled later through experience.He talks about the sense of taste in our being-that it only comes through experience.Because we are exposed to sweet and sour things from childhood,we carry the experience to adulthood,hence we are able to distinguish sweet and sour.
For religion tells us that it's good to suffer now and be happy in heaven - yet no one has ever gone and come back.
If we were to believe in religion we wouldn't have known a liger - cross between a lion and a tiger.Brave humans who defied religion tried scientifically and came up with something that God never created - liger.
Some races suffer in the name of beleives embedded in them by the pioneers of faith.
For those of us who know that the sun is made up of two gases Hylium and Hydrogen -can not be fooled that it is a heavenly body.
Testament to be continued in due course......
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SO FAR SO GOOD
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