Being Adam

Disclaimer: This article (only if you consider it to be one) is meant for reading pleasure and not to be taken seriously. If you or your mother or father or pastor or priest or shaman were to find this offensive, i really don't give a *neighing* backside. so please, read at your own discretion. 

And so it begins.

It's a norm, being tied by traditions, believes and practices. It's a norm, to believe and worship books and texts and idols. No i'm not relating this post to a vampire that sparkles under the sun nor am i referring to the hardy boys.

Yes! As blasphemous as it may soon be, i am referring to RELIGIONS.

Firstly you have the Theist, Atheist and the "sesat" ones, the agnostics. For those who are like me, needing to google every term to understand what it means, i'm going to do you a favor today just because i'm in a good mood;

theist - one who believes in the existence of a god or gods

atheist - one who disbelieves or denies the existence of god or gods

agnostic - one who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a god. one who is skeptical about the existence of god but does not profess true atheism. one who is doubtful or noncommittal about something. plain and simply put, SESAT.

Secondly from the theist, comes the labeling. I'm a Muslim, I'm a Christian (of various sects), I'm a Buddhist (claims many of whom has the disability to distinguish Taoism from Buddhism) and many more.

So that leaves the "others" in a limbo. Where do people like me stand? We believe but refuse to be bounded and chained by traditions and believes not because we're pulling off a James Dean (rebel without a cause), but because we don't see the point in burning papers, kneeling or singing as examples. Our relationship with Him/Her is sacred to ourselves not to mention private. Our conversations/prayers done in our own way without scripts or harmonizing with a choir group.

In countries filled with overzealous backward minded practitioners, this my dear readers is a big issue. For all the human rights to choose that our fore fathers have fought and is still fighting so hard for, it suddenly turns into a witch hunt with Big Brother casting it's eyes and ears waiting to send the damned, confused or plain stupid for rehabilitation or punishments.

John Lennon, one of the first to publicly claim his stand said and i quote:

"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were think and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."

and sang:

"Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky"

Of course, there were tons of claims of him being an atheist but there is also a firm believe that he was merely condemning organized religions. 

Hence the conundrum would now suggest if it is/has been ever necessary to take sides. Was the crusade or the jihad which took countless lives fill the reds in their books and ever be able to make up for it? Is it a necessity to be labeled for God to see or hear us? Is doing what is right no longer the only option for us to be close to Him/Her?

With old school thoughts still controlling the waves of believes, the red sea of the current times seems narrower than the one Moses had to cross for the ones in between but not lost. Religions will always be strong with babies born into families of already firm believers and with current believers not going AWOL but changing religions like a stereotyped Gen-Y would change jobs.

Nevertheless, should we bring ourselves back to when it all first started with Adam and Eve, myself and my peers are not doing anything different. We do believe and feel the presence of our Creator. We believe in what's right and wrong but we stand firm in not being labeled with an organized religion of any sort.

So here I am;

Being Adam.

Full Stop