My faith has been modified by my life experience. So while i could be considered a single religion it was a basis of it. Due to my own personal faith, my knowledge, i have evolved my personal faith.
Those that follow any religion to the exclusion of everything else, thinking they are better because of this or that, just makes no sense anymore. Most religions talk about loving others, while they go around and do morally reprehensible acts.
The worst are those who have just been converted, and the ones with two faces, they preach goodness yet they dont act good. Religions have become less about the people but about a monolithic organisation only there to get more power and more money for themselves. Theres nothing wrong with beleiving in a god, but when you start to treat anyone who doesnt beleive what you beleive, then its no longer a religion but a step into zealotry and thats a small step into terrorism.
So while i do know there are powers out there in the universe, i don't worship them, since faith is reliant on absence of proof.
This has been bothering me for a few months now. Why can't people learn to think? They listen to the press, the government, giving the power to critically think into hands that want more power for themselves.
One example is the AGW, Anthropogenic global warming. There is NO evidence that it is occuring, The climate has always changed, romans grew grapes in the south of england, greenland had lots of vikings growing crops. But then the weather changed from warm, to cold.
The weather has always changed, but not always due to human influence. Many other factors have to be taken into account. Now the "models" used are worse case and in many cases they cant or wont explain how they got that 60 degree increase.. Then theres the Mann hockey stick graph, which has been shown to be faked, and so on.
But people don't want to think don't want to work it out. Same with second hand smoke, and fat, and... everything else..
No proof, yet BILLIONS are spent and earned for thise pseudo science.
Humanity Sucks. Ok, why is that you ask? Well, Several reasons, the first is Unrestrained Breeding, there are about 7 billion humans on this planet, each of these need certain resources. Food, clothing, water etc etc.
Now this poor old earth, have only a limited amount of resources, it doesnt take a rocket scientist to work out there will come a point where the planet will not be able to cope with the amount of humans on the planet.
Even now we are seeing famines and droughts, which can be linked to the use and over use of resources. Over this Christmas, There has been many adverts to save this group, wateraid, etc.. but in those areas its an unrestrained growth. Rather than working to make the area more prosperous, and reducing births, so it will be a gradual growth that the area could cope with, its have child after child, who needs more water, who's children need more water. And you get to a stage where the entire generations to come will be reliant on handouts. Now handouts are prone to corrupt governments, cheating in "administration" costs.
So while charity gives people a warm fuzzy feeling, for the most part charity doesnt work, Teaching people to live within the web of life is the KEY. Unfortunatly the West have lost that connection, Add to that religion, they say be fruitful and multiply, grow, they can't see they are compounding the problem that they are destroying the planet that their gods have made.
The answer.. I don't know.. The Solution, well the earth is starting to fight back, earthquakes, plagues, all happening to wipe humanity off the planet, add to that the childfree (whom i am one). Hopefully the wasteful ones will die out. and leave those that can live in the web of life to live with nature and not dominate it to destruction.