Ok, finally got around to changing the introduction text. But as you can see, I'm too sianz to write a proper one, so am going to blabber on in hopes that you will get an idea of what sort of person I am by guessing. Yeah, the format of this blog is crap. I haven't got around to fixing it. Later lah.. Much later...
Many people seem to view religion in terms of the afterlife.
If you don't do this, you won't go to heaven. If you do this, you'll go to hell. If you don't believe in so and so, you'll never be saved and get to enter heaven's gates.
It seems as if they are so concerned about heaven that they forget earth. That the part that comes after life is so much more important than life itself. As if we go through life only for eventual death.
So should I believe in religion and practise virtue only as a golden ticket to heaven - and not because they are the right things to do? Wat is your motivation? Is it really love? Or fear?
I do not think I will go to hell if I don't make a selection from the various gods available to human kind. However, it doesn't make sense that I will go to heaven either. I'm not trying to imply that I'm such a horrible person. Just that, consider. If all good people go to heaven regardless of whether they acknowledge god, it wouldn't be fair to those people who do.
But without the acceptance, unconditional trust and unquestioning belief that's part of religion, won't I be cheating myself as well as god if I were to take a religion? That's why I feel it's so odd tat a life partner of a Muslim has to convert to Islam regardless of his or her believes. You don't believe in god, yet you go through the ritual masquerading as if u do, is that not blasphemous?
After you die, when he asks you why did you pretended to believe in him, what are you going to say? Because somebody told you to?
