Christianity

I think I've sorta gotten up already, but my feet are still shaking, as is my entire body from this frippin cold. I can't be everyone else's guardian angel when we weren't intended as such. But no, people can't be faulted for simply being themselves even though being as such gets in your way pisses you off. I say again that time will do its good work, and somewhere in the coming days I'll be my usual self again. Though hopefully a slightly wiser self, so that the next time this crap happens will be an even longer way away. Time to talk about Christianity. I'll try my best not to make it preachy...

Whenever anyone preaches about their religion to others, the fact remains that they cannot avoid making assumptions because they are using an arguement based essentially on the heart. Ask any religious person how they know there is a God and they will be stuck. Their answers will never address the subject matter because they have nothing to prove it other than the fact that they have, according to them "felt" this God. And by using an arguement that logical people will find extremely hard to believe upon first hearing it, they expect people to join their religion and often get extremely pushy about it! In the end, the person whom they are trying to convince more often than not leaves the preacher's company, shaking his head and wondering if the appearance of such immeasurably stupid people on this earth who seem to be willing to lap up everything that is thrown at them spells impending doom for all mankind. And of all religions, Christianity seems to be by far the religion that has been most anxious to conert othres. Thus, countless times of repeating this process probably explains why some people find it the most irritating thing on this earth.

The reason why I believe in this, however, is because I discovered it myself. I was a Christian since birth, but only by name. It is only since last year that I have....what would they call it...."developed myself spiritually". And there were only 2 players in this-me and God (I have not stepped into a Church since 2003). And I cannot help to wonder if this is why it could actually work for me. You see, I too have had a fair share of hearing others preach-people did that to me in Secondary school. The subject of contention was magic in fantasy stories-mainly in Harry Potter, and classmates actually tried to get me to chuck out my newly ordered HP book 5. Everywhere I look I see exactly why Christians are labelled as being "holier-than-thou"-especially when trying to defend their religion. When a pastor said he found 50 arguements against evolution, he failed, mainly because he based everything on very weak assumptions. And when I visited this site they actually said somewhere that "the fires of hell will be a bitter reality to those who do not repent". Ohh...I see...a THREAT!? Besides, God certainly did NOT want people to go to Him just by THAT!

I find all this very stupid. Because I think I speak for all Chrsitians on this earth when I will make this contract:-

I, MARCUS TAN PENG JIE, CURRENT SELF-DECLARED CHRISTIAN, PROMISE UPON MY HONOUR, LIFE AND SOUL THAT IF ANY IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE EMERGES PROVING THAT CHRISTIANITY IS FALSE, I WILL IMMEDIATELY STOP BEING ONE, AND WILL DO ALL IN MY POWER TO SPREAD TO OTHERS THE MESSAGE THAT CHRISTIANITY IS INDEED FALSE.

All of you can be my witness. I said it here. The truth is out there. All we need to do is find it. If Christianity is indeed false, I am confident that evidence will emerge disproving it, or perrhaps another religion. The converse is also true. Its a serious thing I just pledged myself to (Hello? Honour, life and soul?), and I'm getting palpitations from the mere thought of it. Yet everyday I live I become more convinced that I will never have to carry out any of that, because one day, the truth, as I believe in it, will emerge.

My Christianity is a simple one-to-one relationship with God built solely upon prayer and currently totally devoid of the glitzy rituals of the church. I do not conform to any strict guidelines of Christianity like not eating meat every Friday or the like. All I do is live a life of passion moderated by reason-a personal set of principles created between me and God and no one else. And if anything I do is wrong, I know He will somehow let me know. Aethists will flog me for living in my own fantasy religion, and even devout Christians may flog me for not totally living the Chrsitian life. But to me, it's personal-and perhaps that is what makes it such a truly worthwile religion...no, relationship for me.

There are many other things I wanted to talk about. Like The Da Vinci Code. Perhaps a quick run-through I will elaborate on in future. There are 2 main points I've gleaned from watching a programme here called "The Real Da Vinci Code"...

1) The guy actually found the Priory of Sion to be a TOTAL SETUP. Apparently, all the parchment was actually FAKED by someone called Sherazade. Apparently, he himself confessed to the fact that it was supposedly some surrealist concept to be taken only as a joke, used solely to give credibility to his (false) claim that he was Merovingian!

2) There was an Italian story which actually mentioned the conept of "the grail" being a large golden plate that was used in the last supper. And before, that, it is found that there has NEVER been any historical references to ANY form of Grail!

3) A Leonardo Da Vinci expert also claims that The Da Vinci Code gives a wrong interpretation of the painting "The Last Supper". He found the entire concept that Leonardo would take so much trouble to hide any religious meaning in it "ludicrous". And when talking about the "V"-shape that supposedly represents the chalice, he feels that because letters can be extracted anywhere from all paintings, it does not have any special significance.

Now I'm no expert in history, but I think it hard that such a wide-reaching programme can lie about something as earth-shattering as this and not draw flack because of it. So, what has basically been said here, is that the historical fact that The Da Vinci Code is based on is false!!!

"Everyone loves a conspiracy"-indeed...