If something was unseen and unnoticed to the outside world, does it exist? For example, a person's internal feelings and conscious are invisible to the rest of the world except the person who holds those feelings internally. Since internal emotions and thoughts of a single individual are not known to the rest of the world, do they truly exist?
Answer is yes to every and all questions stated...
This thought leads me to think about morals and their true definition in today's society. Some people in today's society, including myself treat moral as if they do not exist. Some individuals' morals can be viewed as extreme while others' morals may be somewhat timid. Take this thought and expand it into something controversial such as religion.
Something that teaches peace and forgiveness but also is a highly debatable topic sums up an individuals' religious morals.
Growing up, I was very active in my local church and religion. To the point where I kind of slowly drifted away from being a "church boy or choir boy" to living and making decisions not based on my religion. Some people never form any type of connection with a religion until later in life when things go awry. Myself, I started off religiously strong and as I got older and started to make my own decisions, I relied less and less on religion to be my salvation when things go wrong. In others words, I have faith and I believe and trust my God, but I do not use Him or religion as a crutch or an excuse for any situation in my life. That, in my opinion, is what sets my religious morals in a different category than others who are avid church goers and constantly impose their religious morals on others.
Some people's religious morals consume them to the point where they spend every waking moment in a church or confessing and wanting atonement for sin. There is not a problem with an individual setting religious morals or standards, the issue is when they come off as "perfect" or missionaries for their God.
I guess what I am getting at is that you cannot impose your religion on others in a way that it seems like you're casting judgement. In other words, if an individual is unclean or immoral in your eyes, then it is not your job or duty as a religious person to cast judgement or force that person to change or follow your religious morals.
It angers, no it disappoints me, being a Christian, to witness and even experience religious ridicule by another religious person. Through my experiences, a person with higher religious morals come off as total and complete assholes who in their lifetime has done their fair share of dirt possibly something worse than the person they ridicule. Most religious "freaks" are only highly religious and sets such high standards on themselves and those around them because they are ashamed and/or hiding something and uses religion (as I stated above) as a crutch or a reason to cover their own flaws.
In conclusion, to anyone who has high religious morals, I envy you for your perseverance and dedication to your beliefs. But as much as I envy you, a part of me is disgusted with how some of the high religious moral individuals look down and treat those who you all assume are inferior religiously. At the end of it all, we are all individuals with freedom of religious. With that freedom, we have the privilege and rights to practice any religion, any way we want to, and form our own morals and beliefs within that religion without any outside interference or judgement. Especially interference and judgements by individuals who are not God themselves and/or seemingly perfect.
Morals are only a set of standards we apply on ourselves. They could be religious morals or could range to a number of other morals including sexual. Morals are all around us and helps shape and mold the decisions we make throughout our lives. Decisions such as being a virgin til marriage or sleeping with the whole football team at your local college or high school. Morals are created by us for us to distinguish and figure out what is acceptable and not acceptable to society, those close to us and ourselves. The next time you have sex without a condom, sell yourself for friendship, or date an underage girl, think about your morals and whether or not the person you are laying with is clean, whether the person you are dating is legal, or whether you can truly be a chooser rather than a beggar.
This concludes Chapter One of "Freedom" Friday... Special thanks to SV-C for helping me make this blog baby we created together a success! Until next time... Keeping giving me blogging ideas faithful readers...And stay tuned for Chapter 2. Do not change the channel!
