Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay I’m totally wired from all the coffee I drank tonight and I’m definitely not going to sleep!!!! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy!!!

Religion rant in 2 in the morning: 

So, I really like being an Episcopalian. It gives me a schedule and a routine to thinking about something bigger than my daily life and it teaches me a different way of looking at religion and faith and its place in life.

For me, the idea of God is not far-fetched. I like the idea and on some level, it makes a whole lot of sense to me. I don’t really believe, however, in an afterlife. I stopped believing in that when I was ten years old, and it just never stuck with me. And what that did was, instead of ruining my religious experience, it removed the reward system from the good things I did and still do today. I do good in my life because I want to and because it makes me feel good to do a job and do it well, and I believe in using my talents as I’ve been given them. Having an intense conscience helps too. Bad things make me feel terrible and I don’t want to make people unhappy.

I like routine, I like simplicity, I like intellectual freedom; I like being able to read both Dante’s Inferno AND any book by Kurt Vonnegut and not feel angry about either one. I believe in everyone’s personal freedoms, whether in their right to love or their right to experience the world they’re in religiously or not. And since I don’t believe in an afterlife, I don’t worry about other people burning in hell for not having known the same Jesus I know. The idea seems strange to me. I’m not afraid for their souls. If they do good things, I don’t think it should matter. Sure, I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night terrified thinking about the fact that I’m going to die someday, but I figure that I’m okay either way. 

If I’m right, I won’t notice being dead because I won’t have a consciousness anymore. If I’m wrong, I’ll have done some good in the world and if that doesn’t count because God is angry at me for not doing them for a religious reward, then that’s not a God I want.

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