If god be for them, then who is for us?

I don’t have much to talk about today. I was up all night thanks to this clip.



Funny, I know. Maraka musing over the concept of free will however had me staring at my ceiling all night.

As it turns out, apes have been found to have what we might call empathy towards other apes. An ape won’t needlessly harm another one in his group to get some food or kill a disabled ape. It won’t help the species or family line to propagate if they kill each other, after all.

I think that many of our “values” are simply survival techniques. If we ate our young, there wouldn’t be too many of us after a while since we can only really have one baby per female a year. So for humans, eating babies is bad. Killing is bad, that makes less of us, but if they have food when we don’t then it’s ok. So don’t murder your mailman, but if a nation has oil I hope they have a lot of bunkers to survive the bombs.

I’m not saying we should eat babies and kill postal workers, but that I understand that. I even understand war, to a degree. What doesn’t fit too well into all of that is war over principle. My god versus your god, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

I think war based on a belief like religion is ridiculous. It’s ugly. It’s not killing your neighbor because they won’t share the food and your people starve, it’s killing your neighbor because he wears a funny hat or won’t eat chocolate or something.

Think of it this way, if god made everyone, surely he did not make some of us with the sole purpose to torment the rest of us. It would not make sense that a being that knows everything would predestine millions to hell so that ONE cult can triumph over another. Would it?

I mean, does that mean that your enemy in a holy war, no matter how he lived his life, is doomed to hell for opposing your belief? Didn’t god make him? Isn’t he loved too? Can god make human souls knowing that they will burn in hell for all eternity?

No, war based on belief is wrong; so says my primate style brain. It’s a war between Santa and the Easter Bunny.

Otherwise, if it is true and god is on their side and not ours, then we were created to be damned to hell by him from day one.

God sounds like an asshole.

Or maybe people are morons if they think that an omnipotent, loving being cares which way they face when they pray or if they ate meat on Friday.

Why can’t people be good to each other and take credit for it instead of attribute it to an old man in the clouds? Following that, why can’t we take responsibility for our asinine holy wars without blaming said old man?

Free will or not, we need to start thinking about how we behave toward one another.