Beliefs

“Goddammit, Morpheus. Not everyone believes what you believe.” [Locke, The Matrix: Reloaded].

“My beliefs do not require them to.” [Morpheus, The Matrix: Reloaded]

Christians seem to have the hardest time believing that there is someone in this world as intelligent as myself who does not believe in a supreme being. Another thing that these same Christians seem to have a hard time coming to grips with is that I do not believe Jesus was an actual man. Lastly, Christians are the ones who frequently tell me, after they learn of my beliefs that no one else believes what I do.

Just like Morpheus said, my beliefs do not require them to.

Whenever I have spoken with a Jew and told them what I believe, how I came to believe these things, and explained that while I respect their own beliefs, they do not coincide with mine. None of the Jews I have spoken with have had an issue with this fact, they simply live and let live. The Muslims and Wiccans take this same approach. Christians, however, have a different reaction.

I have spoken with the occasional person who falls in line with the people I listed above. They simply understand that I have my own beliefs and they understand that I respect that they have their own. More often than not, though, I run into the following type of Christians.

Some Christians cannot fathom how I do not believe that Jesus existed. My personal belief is that he is nothing more than an amalgamation of those virtues that Christians would like to believe a savior would embody. There is nothing wrong with that, mind you. These are usually the same Christians that believe that Jesus IS God.

My question for that one is: how can someone be both the son AND the father? Sounds like inbreeding to me.

Other Christians do not understand how I cannot believe that there is a supreme being responsible for everything. Why do they believe there IS a supreme being?

The assaults that I have endured from these Christians has caused me to become savvy enough to defend myself against attacks while launching counter attacks on similar “craziness” in Christianity. Why do I counter attack? I counter attack because I don’t take things lying down.

My point in all of this is that organized religion is a form of control. As I’ve stated in previous posts, and as The Matrix trilogy hammers home, we are all victims of control. The whole point of Pathism is to break free of this control.

Relating real life to The Matrix, I find that the indignant Christians are Agents trying to stop me from finding out the truth. In a metaphorical sense, I’m kung fu-ing my way through the Agents to make sure that I can survive. Isn’t The Matrix fun that way?

All I ask is that people respect my beliefs as I respect theirs. The instant (and I do mean instant) someone disrespects me, I disrespect them. So far, that is the only way I’ve been able to quickly get someone’s attention and make them realize that they are breaking their very own religious tenets. (Judge not lest ye be judged, for instance).

Free your mind.