I haven't blogged on religion for quite a while, mainly because it hasn't irked me. And this blog may take a while to finish. I'm starting this literally 00:00am on 4/8/08.

So you have this thing call free will, which is pretty awesome you know, you can be free to do as you will. Good name ay? So that's cool, and you know it's a complicated bit of evolution but it's at the cutting edge of evolutionary neurobiology which is cool just leave it until we come up with a theory that fits. Yeah sounds good, application of science and all that, embrace the mysteri- what's that about God?

Oh good, we have to deal with the usually Christian invasion of that ever so useful and forward thinking three letter word, God. So now free will is the invention of the omniscient lord, or Lord I suppose I should call him, Him. Right ok, so like everything else that is mysterious in this stunningly beautiful and humblingly complex universe it has to be put down to something beyond our understand, beyond human understanding or comprehension. Why? Why can't we just worship the unknown? Is there anything so criminal about that?

I think Einstein put it best:

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed"

Why does everything need an instant explanation? Especially one as unsatisfying as 'god did it'.

-As a side note here, I don't like to capitalise god. The idea of god is just that, it's an idea, nothing more, get used to that, an idea can't be a proper noun. Like saying Nationisation, it doesn't work. Anyway, I digress.

Our imagination that has brought us so many incredible things: Funk drumming, Vaccination, Quantum Computing, the Hubble Deep Field. Why do we need religion to inspire us? We have our own minds, our own inspiration and most of all our own invention. Whether that's in literature, art or whatever. Create for yourself. If you want to do something, do it, if you want to love, love, if you want to drink, drink. If you're reading this blog I'd assume you have your own morals so you won't do anything to hurt anyone because that's what makes us human, not our Christian values, fuck that, they're human values. Not hurting someone, not stealing, killing, that's not god telling you not to do that, it's your own mind. It's powerful. More so than any of us could ever imagine so keep it open, wide open. Allow it to wander. Allow it to show you the mysterious and more importantly, show the beautiful.

Enough of the preaching. Stop worrying about what's coming up when you kick the bucket, because there's shit all to enjoy, enjoy life instead.

Maybe not, only an hour and a half...