Off the beaten path...

I will revisit the idea of religion in a later post, but I just wanted to share this article. It is an open letter to conservatives. If you are conservative or sympathetic to the Republican Party of the U.S., this isn't against you, but rather an insightful article on some of the hypocrisy and blatant hate that has been allowed to fester within the party itself.

Here is where you can find the original article. I would post it on this blog itself, but there are a lot of referenced materials.

Again, not an attack on the party or it's members, just an article I thought was pertinent to our current times.

Rain drops keep falling on my head - Part I

In light of recent events that have happened in my life, I have been contemplating religion, the meaning of life and how so many acts, both good and bad, are done in the name of religion.

The question that always seems provocative: Which is more important, what you do in this life or whether you reach heaven? For many, I assume the belief in an afterlife is essential for this question.

My personal belief (hey, it's MY blog, so I get to express my belief) is that whether you reach the afterlife is irrelevant. I think the idea of a soul and it reaching heaven or hell is based solely on the idea of people wanting to immortal(ized) and not erased from the history books. Therefore, what you do in life is most important. After that, isn't enough that you lived a good life and the people you survive remember you?

Since I'm working on two papers and a lab report, I'll have to revisit this topic later.

What if God is one of us?

Interesting article about an atheistic message on SMART buses in Detroit.

Article: Click this.