User blog:AustinDR/Some Thoughts on Racing Hearts

Honestly looking forward to the episode myself. To be entirely frank, I don't ship Sam and Luna, namely because of it being one-sided to begin with, but I do like that we're going to see Sam again after she didn't have any lines in that one episode. I guess I will also give some apologies for any actions that I have done that may seem to have been taken as hostile. For one...I feel that I was too harsh on religion. I am not religious myself, nor do I actually have any high opinions on it. For instance, take Christianity. I still see Christianity to an extent as a barbarous religion, one that centers itself around human sacrifice. My problem with it is that it is basically a way to avoid having to accept accountability for your actions, and that the premise behind it that anyone can be absolved of their crimes if they confessed that Jesus is lord is terrible. What if a person was a monster in life, and yet, I'm supposed to believe that if they accepted Jesus in their heart that it's a last ditch effort to avoid punishment? That level of morality is abhorrent IMO. That's not even getting into how it's essentially God's fault for sin if you take into account the fact that God is allegedly omniscient, and yet he does not create a universe where sin does not happen. Which makes me feel like he wanted it to happen. And with Jesus...while it is likely that he may have existed, I doubt that he was really divine namely because of the many prophecies that were attributed to him as being fulfilled when they actually are either vague, or clearly do not allude to Christ at all. And then there's his teachings of basically loving him above your family, friends, etc. All it screams narcissism to me. That's not even getting into the fact that Hell doesn't even exist in Judaism. There are some vague allusions to a place called Sheol, but it is nothing like what we now perceive as Hell in modern times.

But other than that, I do apologize if I sounded hostile for my opinions on religion. While I do respect anyone who has religious convictions, I personally feel that it's a baseless claim to say that anything that the bible or any other religious book is without error. It seems impractical to base your life on what a book says. Another aspect of religion I dislike is the notion of an afterlife. While there is no empirical evidence to suggest that an afterlife exists, my gripe with it is that it looks like an excuse to waste the life you already have to believe in something that may not even exist. For all intents and purposes, you have this one life, so make use of it while you still can. And then there's the whole if an afterlife exists, then which one? Heaven? Hell? Valhala? The spiritual journey you have to take according to Egyptian mythology? The fact that there's so many options when it comes to an afterlife to me sounds more like you should just live your life rather than worry about whatever place you're going.

Other than that, I am pretty peeked to see this episode alongside the other ones this week.