Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-88.114.255.138-20130111160957/@comment-6020143-20130129214824

I am extremely happy that there still exist tolerant and intelligent people in this world, I really am! When it comes to organised religioius organisations and their mythology, a reform is truly needed: remove all of the hate, racism, intolerance and violence from all religions and make them concentrate on their true essence: love and spiritual enlightment.

The current religous organisations, such as the Catholic Church and the Muslim Church, cannot stand in their current form. Right now, they are just as unjust and immoral as the religions they represent.

Yes, there are good things in all the major religions, such as beautiful teachings of love and understanding, but there are also loads of terrifying thoughts and questionable moral values. For example, the Old Testament is not so nice when it comes to pretty much anything; everything from gays to women get stoned to death etc.

Furthermore, I am afraid that we can never even discover the spiritual realm (which I believe in) with our current tools. Science can only explain the physical world, but it cannot touch anything else. By only relying on science, our knowledge of our souls, God and the afterlife will remain nonexistent. We need a new method of gaining information... What should/will it be? I have no idea whatsoever.

It may well be that humanity will never reach the spiritual realm, no matter what kind of method we use. I became assured after the existence of spiritual planes, beings etc. through a whole year of philosophical thinking, combined with "logical thinking" and religous pondering.

I used the Christian version as a starting point, since I am most familiar with it of all the religious explanations to our universe.

If you are interested, here are my beliefs:

1. God exists and he is powerful beyond all reckoning. God created the universe (Big Bang) and after it, he  became less active. He let all of the galaxies and planets form by themselves. Humanity was also formed through natural evolution without God's interference, as our current scientific research has revealed. God has been quite lazy for quite a long time...

2. The last time God tried to help us, the tiny human race (flattering, is it not?), was when he tried to save us from our inner evil through his son Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, we thanked him by crucifying him and he went back to his Father. I am still waiting for Jesus to return and perhaps succeed at saving us, since we are the biggest bastards ever.

Imagine this: no wars, no poverty, no injustice or anything like that. No problems with pollution etc. The human race can advance and develop without fear and anxiety. The world is at harmony and peace after Jesus's return. This raises the question: how can the son of God Himself be 2000 years late?! Usually, when people miss something important, they arrive 15 minutes too late. But this guy is 2000 years late, and still counting! Dear Lord...

3. We have souls, which are our utmost identity, our very essence. Every one of us has a unique soul, which we get when we are born. It is not affected by your genes or anything like that, and it is shaped by our actions in life. A selfless and kind person who has spread love and peace has a different soul than Stalin. Depending on the condition of our souls when we "die", the soul travels to different places in the afterlife. Of course, I cannot know what the afterlife is like, but I believe that good and evil people go to different places.

4. I do not believe that God (only good) and Satan (only evil) exist, it just sounds so unlikely that a being could only represent one spectrum of emotions. Instead, I believe that God is both the ultimate good and the ultimate evil, the one who creates and destroys, and that the Christian God and Satan are just two different aspects of God Himself. If God takes part in our existence, I hope that He will be as benevolent to us as possible, because then we may truly be, for the first time in recorded history, truly happy. The world, and the universe itself would become peaceful and harmonous.

Beautiful, is it not?

NobleWalrus :)