Have you ever noticed that when it comes to religion people never want to listen to other opinions? Unless you believe just like they do you are wrong. I can’t believe that when Jesus was walking the Earth he wanted his people to be so close minded and unwilling to see things through other people’s eyes.
Let me get this out before I begin on my musings for the day. I don’t doubt that there is a god out there, of some sort. I just have issues with religion in this day and age. I think that as long as people have faith in something, that should be all that matters. I should not be forced to believe in a God who may or may not be real. I have faith that there is a higher power, but for all we know that could little green men. I think that faith is what gets people up each day, be that faith be in God or even in a person’s belief that there is no God. We should not be told we are wrong, if that is how we feel personally. Free will is a bitch.
Now, to get to what I want to really talk about today. Lucifer is the topic of today’s post. I have been musing over this for a while and I have finally gotten all my thoughts in order and now it is time to post them. First, if you are easily angered I would not keep reading, I will probably upset the very religious out there.
Lucifer, Satan, the devil, and so many other names, was an angel once you know. I was thinking about that and I came to conclusion that while churches want us to believe that he lies, I don’t think he does. We have to keep in mind that he was indeed an angel and any other angel would never lie to us. What I do think is that he knows how to get to our base emotions and plays off of them. He doesn’t have to lie to us to get us to do evil, every person is born with both good and evil in them. The ability to do both good and evil is something we will fight with all our lives. It was not something placed in us in later years by Lucifer, it was just nurtured.
It is not about lying to someone to get them do evil, it is about knowing how to push the right buttons to get them to act on the feelings that were already there. That is something we have that the angels don’t, free will. I think that is what drives us to act on our base emotions, not having some little evil being in our ear lying to us. I just don’t think that he lies, I just think he knows how to wiggle his way into our minds and pick up on the things we refuse to admit to ourselves.
Now I know thinking this way is not going to win me any awards, really I am betting I will upset enough people that I will either get yelled at or lose people who claim to be my friends. I just think that I have a right to my beliefs and feelings, just like every other person on the planet. I am sorry if it does not mesh well with your beliefs and feelings but I can’t change who I am to make others happy. Then I would not be happy at all.