Written by UnmodernM
Men who profess their devotion to god through religious moral obedience,
will always fail to reveal their true character,
putting themselves that much further away from god.
Nothing but cowards.
I’m going to rant.
If God is the all powerful, all knowing, and a moral perfectionist as most religions depict him to be, then evil should not exist.
But it does. So that would mean God is immoral, weak, oblivious or simply does not exist.
But I think there’s a moral reason for evils necessity.
The only possible way for God to uphold the image:
of being the morally powerful, all-knowing with the capacity to end evil,
yet ignore it to exist in the world,
is for him to have a morally sufficient reason to ALLOW evil to exist.
What could Gods reason be to justify allowance of evil to roam free? What is he protecting so much that comes at the cost of allowing evil to destroy innocent & good people?
What would he have to give up if he is to eradicate evil?
The gift of free will.
Free-will is the notion in which a person is free to act on a choice if that person is BOTH free to PERFORM that action
AND
free to REFRAIN from performing that action.
This means their will is not affected BY ANY form of causal forces or punishing consequences.
Logic dictates that God cannot intervene with people to do whats right & avoid whats wrong UNLESS he eradicates all evil.
Therefore evil serves a necessary purpose; to reveal those of moral significance & integrity through the gift of free-will who choose to act on whats right.
The moral significance of a choice can only be determined if that choice has been acted upon by the means of free-will.
Eradicating evil, would mean to eradicate free-will,
thereby rendering the moral significance of all human choices meaningless.
This rationalisation can justify that it is perfectly possible for God to uphold the image portrayed as the virtuous omnipotent, omniscient entity, despite allowing evil to roam in this world.
It concludes that, to test the moral significance of one’s character, evil MUST exist.
If God is willing to allow evil to roam free as a cost to protect our free-will of choice,
then it is our duty to exercise free-will in its purest form, free from any religious belief system.
We must honour God’s protection of free-will through integrity,
not moral obedience.
Religion disrupts a mans willingness to exercise free-will, obscuring the moral significance of his choices by imposing moral obedience.
Despite religion’s divine attempt to seek morality, the method employed is nothing short of cowardice.
Moral obedience to a belief system stems from either,
fear of punishment, seeking reward or fear of acting alone.
At its absolute divine reason,
a person’s religious obedience stems from lacking faith in their own ability to deliver choices upon their own free-will.
It is NOT free-will, when one ‘freely’ chooses to become religious to practice morality. It is cowardly.
The attempt to seek the guidance of a belief system goes entirely against what free-will stands for.
It merely demonstrates obedience,
no moral significance of character.
The moment a man latches his choices to a set of religious rules, he clouds his capacity for wrongdoing through obedience.
He then seeks to comfortably justify his obedience by declaring his ‘love for god’.
Moral obedience disrespects free-will, & therefore disrespects God.
If God allows evil in the world to exist as a sacrifice to protect free-will,
then we are all dishonouring him when we seek obedience through religion.
Instead, we should seek to self-legislate our free-will as a test of character & acknowledge his sacrifice.
We become that much closer to God when we reach the heights of our moral significance through our own free-will.
We become demi-gods within our own right, having the unrestricted capacity to do evil, but choose to do what is right instead.
True form of integrity.
If God is truly the virtuous omnipotent, omnipresent & omniscient entity in a world where evil exists,
then our choices made through free-will is the ultimate test of our moral integrity.
Thus, any belief system that imposes moral obedience, denies our true worth to god.
I think that’s it.
