Happy Easter!

So I'm not an atheist. I know some people who think that that means I'm really stupid, childish or superstitious, but personally, I think it's pretty arrogant to just one day up and declare that you think there's no God, and when we all die, absolutely nothing happens. Except the usual scientifically proven stuff, of course, like decomposition of the human body and all that.

Well... I mean, I think a person has every right to say that they don't believe in anything they want to, but many of the people who get really vocal about it are often very angry and intolerant, and they're just using all the clear and present holes in most popular religions to obfuscate the fact that they are in fact, whether they want to admit or not, just plain intolerant. Just as, or even more intolerant and hard headed in fact, than the religious people they love to put down. They're also, whether they realize it or not, not very supportive of religious freedom - which is a basic tenant of any true democracy.

Of course, I've had moments in my life when I've thought that maybe there is no God. I think most people have had those thoughts from time to time in their life. Again... whether they admit it or not.  We all get down sometimes. We all get discouraged and disillusioned, especially when things aren't going our way. After all, there is a lot of suffering and cruelty in the world, and if you really focus on it, life can be extremely disheartening. Sort of makes a person want to pray... or prey upon those who do, maybe. Whatever the case may in fact be, I think it's a little silly to think that choosing to not believe in something that seems far fetched (based on current, ever changing levels of scientific knowledge) makes anyone necessarily better than anyone else.

But please don't polarize the issue for me, thank you very much! I'm also not especially religious. So even though I do believe in all sorts of things, I don't believe in getting too involved in any type of group-centric behavior. I don't do political parties or cults as a general rule. I do believe in karma, the focusing of positive energies, and the genuine power of prayer, but like a lot of people, I've personally witnessed and experienced some very negative aspects of organized religion. You know, the same stuff that makes some atheists get so mean and intolerant. Overall however, I think religion, and having religious freedom is extremely important in any society.

No, you don't have to say "Merry Christmas" to me, or even "God bless you" when I sneeze, but who is anyone to tell me or anyone else that they shouldn't be able to say anything like that to anyone else? Or say a kid can't say the Pledge of Allegiance with the word God among the verses?  Anyway... HAPPY EASTER!  I believe in some things, and don't believe in others. Just like everybody else. And I don't know everything. Just like everybody else. Whether they admit it or not.  And what I do or don't believe in, just makes me human. And flexible, really. Because if nature teaches us anything, it is that rigidity kills. Living creatures that cannot adapt and change must eventually die out.

Anyway, I'm not sitting permanently on anybody's hotly contested fence, or firmly entrenched on either side of it. I make up my own mind, based on any and all of the information that's out there.  Regardless of whether any church, state or highfalutin scientific establishment outright dismisses it from the get go. I have free will. I choose to believe or not to believe as I see fit. Because most of all, what I really believe, is that true rationality, true sanity, lies somewhere between any and all extremes.