What must Jesus have been like as a person? I mean I know he was generous, kind, forgiving, and so forth and so on, but what else? What was he like as a teenager? Did he like music? (Of course he did) Was he good at mathematics? Did he fart in public? Did he joke around sometimes? Were they funny jokes? Did he try really hard to please everyone around him? Would I want to be friends with him if he’d lived in my time or I’d lived in his?
(I went to sleep last night with this thought in my head, basically I was going all, “Whoa, that is so thought-provoking…” In retrospect, it wasn’t very.)
If I were a god—or God, or whatever—I’d hardly give a damn if anybody worshiped me. I mean, yeah, people waking up and thinking, “Gee willikers, the weather sure is nice!” is nice. But making sacrifices really isn’t. If you want to eat meat, then go eat meat. If you want to eat, then go eat. For somebody’s sake, it’s not really going to make you less of a person. Just go out there and do nice stuff.
There’s this religious (I guess) song that always plays when it’s around 10 in the evening (the one that goes “God bless you, Mama Mary loves you”). The melody irked me, but it was this stanza that really pissed me off:
Kung ikaw ay mataba,
Bilbil mo’y kitang-kita,
‘Wag ka nang mag-alala
At mayro’n pang pag-asa.
God bless you, Mama Mary loves you.
What is it even implying?
Looking back, I realized was a really religious person in high school.
What happened? I didn’t even have any professors who were (active) antitheists. Or any classmates, for that matter. For some reason I just decided that I wasn’t sure of God’s existence.