Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
John Lennon, Imagine
I’m right, you’re wrong. I’m saved, you’re dammed. My holy book (take your pick), is the true, unblemished, word of G.O.D., your book is a pack of lies. What a mess – you could spend a lifetime trying to sort through all the conflicting messages.
Before you do though, have you ever stopped to consider that maybe they’re ALL wrong? That maybe there isn’t a big daddy in the sky who is going to make your pain go away, or for that matter a big baddy down below that you can blame for all of life’s misfortunes. That maybe shit happens, you’re responsible for your decisions and their consequences, and that the ultimate and only evil is that which resides in the ignorant minds of man?
Excuse me for insulting your cherished beliefs if you happen to be religious, but just how stupid are you? If your life is so hollow, so meaningless, so purposeless that you need the guidance of long dead preindustrial primitives to tell you how to run it, you’ve got bigger problems than whether you’ve made the “right” choice in finding god.
Wake up! Cast off the shackles of ignorance, blindness and faith and you’ll find that there is more than enough purpose in life to go around – and the best part is that you can create the life that is meaningful for you – not the narrow box that your religious beliefs (or leaders) would have you live in.
