The most simplest way to explain religion is to look at our commericialized Christmas and Santa. Santa represents the short-term religion of any child. A being that watches you all year long (1 year=1 lifetime). If you are good (follow the laws of the religion) you get rewarded (gifts=heaven). If you are bad, you are punished (coal=hell). I was just thinking of how this is the most simpest way to explain religion. Do you agree (even if you don't agree with religion, or Santa) that if explaining to a child, this would make it home easier then really explaining God and heaven?
2006-12-05
06:12:27
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Bomb Diggity, I didn't put any one religion up there. You can interpret it as you want. Buddist (and let's see if I get this right). good=nirvana, bad=no nirvana instead of heaven and hell. It's in how you interpret it.
2006-12-05
06:22:25 ·
update #1
Geez, I wrote this because I was thinking about when I was kid, Santa scared me more then God because judgement was closer. Christmas always came before death, so Santa scared me more the God. As I got older, I was able to view God in a better light because of my thoughts on Santa as a child.
A child doesn't always think like an adult. What effects them aren't always things so far in the future, like heaven and hell, but what is in the here and now. Just like, God didn't worry me, but my mom and the spanking spoon did. I didn't think my mom was God, just like I never thought Santa was God, but it effected me before God did.
2006-12-05
06:52:17 ·
update #2