Musings of A Dumb Ass

What if there is a God?.... What if there is no God?

My God believing friends would be mortified at the thought of 'no God'. My friends who either question the concept or just flat out reject idea of celestial supremacy would just be bored as usual trying to consider it.

It's a neat thought to be secure in the belief that you will last forever, and likewise depressing to think right now is all there is.

The problem with either mindset is the limitation of thinking allowed to embrace either possibility.

If you want to believe in God, then you generally have to accept human rules and regulations to access salvation, or simply be alone in your thought process, because no recognized religion allows free thinking and open rules.

Most all of them have a human being between you and God that you must accept as either representative of God or a heavenly appointed potentate that you must obey and emulate without question to gain connection with the Great One.

Many of my friends claim contact with the almighty on a regular basis but it's always through some sort of weird 'sign' that has little to do with anything, or simply a thought that occurs to them that fits in with the desired direction , pro or con', they want to go, while if I happen to have a flash of some sort I just attribute it to my brain doing what it does naturally as opposed to a message from beyond.

Then there's the God of Love 'thing'.

It is said that God loves everything except sin and disrespect to Him. That is a strange position to be held in such a brutal world where all life is only here to be consumed by something else including us ( the worms finally get us) unless we're cremated at death, which oddly enough is a practice contrary to some religions. To be considered worthy of eternal life in most faiths you must be very rigid in your stay on earth making sure you don't participate in much of anything pleasurable while trying to convince everyone else how great your life is and how complete your love of God is, even when suffering great pain and knowing death is knocking on the door and tomorrow is not to be, believing God's love for you is complete, through submission of your life to him.

Then there's the 10,000 babies who are not aware of God, didn't ask to be born, who have had no opportunity to sin, nor make a decision concerning God, who on planet earth tonight will die a miserable death from dysentary , or as I like to say in plainer english, 'will shit themselves to death'. And they will.

I really have trouble feeling the love in our world and buying into the generally accepted religions that most embrace. Sometimes I have trouble feeling anything, which of course is a form of torture not known to many and appreciated by none............