Human All Too Human

So here's is another part to that last blog I posted. Before you read it, I would highly recommend you watch a documentary about Fredrich Nietzsche. Its called Human All Too Human. This is sort of hard to put together. It took me awhile to get to this point in my life. Take it or leave it, but please consider it for just five minutes and think.

Human All Too Human

I grew up as a Greek Orthodox Christian. The church I went to was fairly liberal. Since I didn't go to many churches, I can only assume that the religion is overall a liberal Christian religion unlike the Roman-Catholic Church. I can say this because for a year and a half I was sent to a private Catholic school. A time in my life I can call "hell". It was weird being thrown into this new religious world because their interpretation of Christianity was so different and to be honest, I didn't like it one bit. Nonetheless, I was a Christian child. I prayed every night before I went to sleep for about six years. Every single night. But as I got older, I started losing interest. Maybe I started getting lazy. Or maybe I realized that my prayers weren't making any difference in my life. Either way, I gradually stopped praying. Though I still considered myself a Christian. I still believed in Jesus and the morals the Bible and my Sunday School teachers taught me.

When I left high school at the age of 17, I pushed to educate myself while being out of school. I didn't want to be that typical high school drop out; I wanted to pursue education in topics that I was actually interested in. I started learning more about the world around me through experience and observation. And more about history and other cultures. Ancient civilizations and their beliefs facinated me. I started to think. Something conservative churches like the Catholics DON'T want you to do. I was lucky enough to have been raised a liberal so it just made everything easier for me to understand. I had no fear of God punishing me for being curious. Soon enough though, after learning about the history of Christianity, I started to detach myself from the religion. I didn't want to be associated with the same people whom have killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the name of their lord and savior. Jesus, fiction or non-fiction, frowned upon that kind of behavior. So ironic. I did not want to be associated with that kind of hypocrisy. So I opened my mind to any possibilities to seek some sort of answer.

Finally, about a year and a half ago, I completely gave up on religion. Period. I realized that it only limited people's ability to think freely. I believed that reality was subjective. That this Christian God was not going to condemn me for learning about myself and the world I live in. I wasn't going to hell for questioning his will. Why would an all-loving God do that?! I then understood that God is dead. Because of man's evolution -- creating technology, development in psychology and philosophy -- God has been killed by us. There for we need to overcome the feeling of hopelessness by reinventing the moral values that religion has been teaching humans for centuries. This is the Overhuman or Superhuman. The evolutionary being that overcomes man. Because if God is dead, we strive to become God. In a sense that is what Christianity teaches. People are taught to live like Jesus. But they use fear as a tool to control. If you remove that fear of Hell and damnation, you allow yourself to be free. And just because you're free doesn't mean you are an evil person with no moral values. You must teach yourself to be responsible for your actions and have some restraint.

This is probably all sounding like complete jibberish to some. You might have already stopped reading this out of pure disgust. All of this God is dead talk, denouncing religion, and becoming God?! How dare me! Who the hell do I think I am?! Well, this transition I made didn't happen over night. Trust me, this has been something that took years for me to come to terms with and I don't expect it to be easy for for anyone else who has strong faith in their church like I once had. I know if me eight years ago was reading this, I would be appalled by this sort of thinking. Surely Jesus Christ is our lord and savior. You must have faith! Well, I'm not fourteen years old anymore. History has showed that religion was just a tool to teach people about the world around them and later on, used to control the masses. It wasn't until the Romans used Christianity as a political tool to really start controlling the masses. Then they started using it to kill and oppress people. They burned down the greatest source of knowledge in history, The Library of Alexandria. Oh, to think about all of that knowledge they destroyed makes me even more glad that I have found the path I'm on. Even today, Christianity is still used to pedal politics and war.


Religion is something people must start to grow out of in order for our race to survive what is coming in the near future. You must understand that God or any being isn't coming down to save us from evil. We can only save us from ourselves. Don't take my word for it, do the research yourself. I encourage you to look deeper into this. Maybe its fear that keeps people away from the truth? Fear of responsibility or lack of direction? People would rather run away/ignore the fear rather than confront the problem and figure it out. Confrontation with the fact we live in a Godless world is the only way to solve the problem. If not, it will always be something you're running from till the day you die. That kind of life sounds so unfulfilling and sad. To just die without any answers, assuming you will arrive at the Gates of Heaven. There is an answer to life in a world without a God. This answer is the Overhuman. The Overhuman brings meaning to life. It is a goal for humanity. It is a progression that man must willfully make. This may sound similar to the Christian teachings of Jesus. That is what people were supposed to aim for right? To live like Jesus. But since we have killed God, the Overhuman is the new goal.

"All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…"

Now if you've gotten this far, you are either completely disgusted, intrigued, or just think that I'm completely out of my mind. I am not going to attempt to disprove religion historically because I don't see a point to. To believe in these ancient stories is sort of childish in my eyes. Early humans made up these stories/fables in order to build a structure to life and its meaning. To give a reason for our existence and the universe around us. But the fact of the matter is, we've evolved. Look at your iPod. Look at the discovery of Quantum Mechanics. Religion is irrelevant today. We are not cavemen, nor the people of ancient Sumeria or Greece. We have a better understanding of the world and the proof is all around you. Like it or not, that is the truth. Its time for people to understand this. Its important that people understand this. Its important to look at the entire picture here. The Bush administration has used Christianity as his defense numerous times. You can't kill people and say its okay because you believe in God. If I went out, killed someone, and told everyone I did it for Jesus, that doesn't make it right. It doesn't make sense. People who believe killing in the name of their beliefs are the ones who are bat shit crazy. Not me. If you have any further interest in Nietzsche, I would highly recommend the book Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Here are some Wikipedia links you can check out as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_dead

Here's a cool documentary on the Atom and Quantum Physics:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7694154455816736507&q=clash+of+titans+atoms&ei=iLpaSMXpEoqm4QLT6oSGCg