Religous writing...

fade2black

Does anyone else suffer from this? I seem to always get drawn to a certain topic whether it be for an article or for fiction. I wrote my first book a few years ago (im 24 now)-which if anyone had any interest in reading it would be a pleasure to send it on to them- but for some reason I can't seem to get away from religion...even though I'm not the most religous person on my one or anyone's street. My last published article was last week about priests being allowed to marry...and i was trying to put a nail in this topical coffin by writing one last article, which explores our belief in God and why we should or shouldn't believe. Im almost finished it (just have to find an ending) but why oh why is a dirty little 24 year old, non-mass going, drinking gob****e writing about Religion all the time????

solas

boredom?
lack of sexual activity/appetite can lead one to look inwardly, which is often externalised through religion or spirituality.
Upbringing?
repressed feelings from childhood surrounding beliefs etc.. may be resurfacing.
Dealing with life?
The loss of a close relative or loved one often leads people to "seeking" and can lead to "enlightening" experiences. (change of perspective)

Maybe you just like religion and express it creatively through writing, as so many throughout history have done. Expression via inspiration.
Some of the best music written is inspired by peoples personal religious beliefs (Handles Messiah etc..) and the most noteworthy books are born from the same desire. (Tolkien's Lord of the Rings)

Considering you've written a book on the subject, why don't you try to explain why you find it so enthralling. I'd be interesting in reading it.

fade2black

Well the book is more so about christian brothers but deals with faith a little on the way. By the way all the possible motives you listed do not apply to me, I think religion is just such a huge area and in some way applies to every one in this country so makes it quite an easy topic to write about.

This is what i have so far with this article....

If somebody could ask just one question and be guaranteed an answer they would surely ask if there was a God. This would answer everything else – why we are all here, can we expect an afterlife? However, I’m sure there are many more who would chose not to know, not to ask, like the sex of an unborn child some would want to find out when the right time came. Maybe they would just be afraid to ask, fearing an answer they would not wish to hear. So then, maybe we should take time to think about why we should believe in God or if we should believe in Him at all.
The problem with faith and belief is one of individual argument. If you don’t believe in God there’s very little, short of a personal meeting with the Great One, that will make you believe otherwise. No amount of arm-twisting or heart felt Christian preaching will change your mind. Just like if you’re a true believer, your mind will be closed to any form of anti-God arguments from any agnostic spokesman. So where does this leave you? Well, if you believe in God you probably belong in one of many leagues of belief. At the top of this league are those people who make sacrifices for their faith, nuns, priests, rabbi’s, monks…I could add another fifty to that list of people who have placed the biggest bets on the existence of God – those who have the most to lose. Up next we have the devotees, the folks who attend their Church on a daily basis making God a part of their daily lives. Like the priests and the rabbis etc they have also made a big investment (albeit not as substantial) in their God. There is a huge scattering of people below that, many who intermittingly attend church, many who don’t attend at all but retain a strong faith and mostly those who get very close to God when times get rough. These are the majority; these are the people who are more hopeful than positive in the existence of a Heavenly Father.
So what of those who have no beliefs in a power greater than their own? An agnostic in the original sense of the word is a person who thinks that we can't ever know about anything other than the material world, and therefore that the question as to whether God exists or not is one that can never be answered. An atheist is someone very similar who simply doesn’t believe in God. There are millions of non-believers in the world and there are many reasons for this non-belief. Some concern themselves with too many other matters to place an importance in anything but themselves. Some were conceived into a faithless culture and others feel that there is just too much evil in the world for such a benevolent entity to exist. There are those who once believed in God only for tragedy to strip them of their faith and every belief they ever had. Then there are those who would truly love to believe but blind faith is just not good enough and hard evidence is what’s needed.
Think about this for a second, and excuse me for dipping into the scientific: The Earth is perfect. I don’t mean the world and I don’t mean life, but the planet Earth. The Earth's size and corresponding gravity holds a thin layer of mostly nitrogen and oxygen gases, only extending about 50 miles above the Earth's surface. If Earth were smaller, an atmosphere would be impossible, like the planet Mercury. If Earth were larger, its atmosphere would contain free hydrogen, like Jupiter. Earth is the only known planet equipped with an atmosphere of the right mixture of gases to sustain plant, animal and human life. Is this an accident? Maybe. If, as is widely reported and popularly believed we are here because of a big bang then we have been blessed by nothing but amazing fortune. The Earth is the perfect distance from the Sun, some miles further away and we’d all be snowmen, a few miles closer and we’d melt. Another accident? Possibly.
In response to the question many people ask ‘if there really is a God why do bad things happen to good people?’ If God is to be praised as an ultimate amalgamation of benevolence then surely this is not an unreasonable question to ask. Christopher Reeve, a man not unfamiliar with tragedy, wrote in his autobiography that he believes people are born with free will and what they do with that freedom will decide their place in the afterlife. It takes an incredible amount of faith to look up to the heavens from a wheelchair and put your trust in a God.

I dunno....

ven0m

I find there's usually a spiritual aspect to what I write at times - my tattoos are more blatent, as they are VERY orientated in that way. I'm not even 'churchy', nor have I attended since I was 12. BUT - I do have a side of me that leans heavy on spirituality. I don't go around advertising the fact (aside from the tattoos when I get asked to explain them!)... it brings me some comfort in my life & lets me deal with certain things a little better....


::: ven0mous :::

parker larkin

The Earth Is Perfect.

I like that, it is actually one of my favourite thoughts.

You've basically answered your own question, but I suspect you knew that already. It is the eternal mystery and the eternal question as asked by those of us who can't say for certain one way or the other, but swing between opinions, feelings, private moments of realisation.

I used to turn myself inside out with this issue, but now I'm finding answers that suit me, and an understanding I can be at ease with. That said, I do continue to wonder and am glad I have the ability to wrestle with the matter in hand.

edibility

The Earth is perfect.


I'm really really sorry to pick, but if you want that sentence to be truely accurate you need to discuss it outside of just our solar system, as the earth is only perfect in comparision to the eight (or is it nine now?) planets within it. Just a thought.....cause if God is out there, surely he doesn't just watch over or command or whatever just our little tiny minute portion of the universe.....