nobody calling on the phone

Somehow you get from listening to Glee music to Shontelle to Rihanna to Glee again and then to Kate Nash, it's possible. I did it, but I started thinking when I somehow got hooked into listening to "One of Us" despite the fact that I don't really enjoy this song very much. I find it kind of mocking of Christianity in some ways? Like, the whole point of their worship is that God is not one of us. He's much, much better than us, he's bigger than us, and he's infinite in all ways. He's not a stranger on the bus. The Pope cannot call him.

That being said, I kind of love the implications of this song? Because it seems to me that it inspires us to look around at the people we interact with all the time and look at them as if they were more than what they are, and not in a creepy serial killer way. ONE OF THEM COULD BE GOD. WATCHING YOU AND MISSING THE BUS THEN HAVING TO RUN AFTER THE BUS UNTIL HE'S UNATTRACTIVELY SWEATING. Yes. So yeah, what if God was one of us? Would I be forced to believe in Jesus and the saints and aaaaall the prophets? Obviously that would depend on what GOD we're talking about here. But would I want to accept all of the bullshit that's in the Bible along with God's existence? I honestly have to say no. Something about a religion can be true without everything being true; take Jesus' existence. It's true, right? Yes? But that doesn't mean he was the son of God. It doesn't mean that he rose from the dead after three days.

Christianity is mostly based off of interpretations of the Bible; the Bible itself is incredibly warped and misinterpreted. I recently read something that says that Jesus' name itself is completely wrong, and that his name was originally Joshua before all the translations the texts went through. Translating a single sentence through technology these days means that the entire meaning can be lost -- can you imagine several BOOKS of knowledge being translating multiple times? Who knows that the Bible may have originally meant or said? I can't trust a book that isn't even a real thing. That is honestly my biggest problem with Christianity; the complete blind faith and trust put into something made up of fallacies. Which, I realize, is the foundation of Christianity -- faith. Faith is wonderful, and important, and life-changing, and I don't begrudge anyone it. But blind faith can become naivete, and it's painful to see how religion can harm people because of it.

I like to believe that whatever created us is content to let us live our lives; that each of us was made for a reason, however small. That men and women can like men or women, and that's fine. That the colors of our skin are nothing more than the sun affecting us. That people from any culture can find something that they have in common. I like to believe that whatever made us is watching us, but watching us from a distance; it doesn't care if we believe in it, worship it, worship something else altogether. I feel like something has to have started everything (but then I think WHAT STARTED THAT and my head hurts) but that doesn't mean that I prescribe to one point of view.

I grew up Methodist, but I don't know if I ever believed it. I sing praises to God, but as a child I questioned Him. I read Genesis and I am literally unable to fathom how people think that they know what happened before people existed. I can't understand how people can ignore science; the same science that helps heal lives. I can't believe that people think that facts and faith have to be mutually exclusive.

I am constantly changing, and therefore, my beliefs will too. I cannot live in a structured world where I must believe something or suffer eternally for it. I don't think God would create people only to have them suffer.

Wow, Glee, provoking the big subjects.