Well, my grand hiatus lasted nearly 24 hours. How about that, people! Ha ha! All kidding aside, I am going to update this blog far less frequently than I have in the past so I can tend to my writing projects. I did, however, plan on keeping up with my Facebook and Twitter accounts in the meanwhile. The funny thing is I had the following Facebook Status Update all ready to go but it was too long to be published as a Facebook Status update. The little blurb was too good – in my humble opinion – to not be given life somewhere so it’s being published here in spite of my hiatus.
Anyway, here is the thought I was going to share on Facebook, but couldn’t because it was just too long:
I have been finally convinced that a lot of what is passed off as “religious expression” is in fact unhealthy and counter-productive to humanity’s greater good because a lot of people haven’t the slightest idea of why they are religious in the first place. Socrates, during his heresy trial, said “The unexamined life is not worth living” ( Apology 38a). The truth of that statement resonates to this day. In fact, I’d have little problem expanding upon it in the context of religious conversation and saying something like, “An unexamined faith is not worth two shits” (The Illustrated Pocket Handbook to Western Pennsylvanian Faith Slang 56A).”
Have you ever honestly asked yourself why you are religious? Why do you claim a faith expression? Why in the world do you do the things that you do? After you are done wrestling with those huge existential questions, I urge you to ask yourself one more big question. Ask yourself the following: “Am I the first person on this planet to do such things?”
There is also a little but not-so-subtle hint in there about one of the five writing projects I’m working on simultaneously.
Now back to your regularly scheduled hiatus already in progress …
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