This is going to be a religious podcast episode, although not exactly what you think.

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So, last night I was talking to my boyfriend about Christianity and he sent me this rather interesting graphic about how people’s belief in Christianity has gone down since the 70s. According to this graphic, about 90% of people (who took the poll) identified as Christian and were brought up in a Christian household; but as the years went on, this slowly but steadily dwindled.

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Now, it’s becoming more and more common for households and people to not identify with any religion verses identify specifically with Christianity.

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I was telling him how when I was growing up, it didn’t feel like people were religious. We’re pretty different in age and he was telling me how he remembers people were religious and pretty faithful when it comes to Christianity, but I didn’t really see that growing up.

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I grew up in a pretty religious family - my mom’s side is very Christian and my dad is Muslim, so I grew up in split-religious household, but still religious nonetheless. But, as I got older, I strayed away from Christianity, religion, and any sort of specified religion. And in school, it was always sort of a no-no to do anything religious.

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I talked about this in episode #20, “What is Spirituality”, but I’m more of a spiritual person who connects with the essence of God, and existence, and creation, and our shared collective soul and energy. I don’t really believe in the Jesus that’s spoken about in the Bible; however, I do believe in love and spreading love and rooting oneself in love… which is honestly what Christianity is based off of…

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Jesus was trying to spread Christ Consciousness, understanding that love, peace, joy, and service to oneself and one another is within you, not outside of yourself which is what I think modern-day Christianity teaches.

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I feel I was more religious when I was younger than I am today, partly because of my upbringing and partly because I prayed every single night before bed. I always prayed for peace and love on Earth for every single person good or bad or neutral. For every animal, every thing on this planet, in this existence, in life and the Universe… just love and peace and for people to feel good. Love and peace have always been a big thing for me (I’m sure you can guess my Sun Sign).

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I think one big thing about Christianity is the community aspect of it. You go to church with the community and celebrate God, celebrate the Creator, celebrate existence and life itself, and I think that’s what’s dwindling… that’s what’s missing in society as a collective. Especially in the United States.

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I think that’s why people aren’t associating with any sort of religion because no one is coming together… no one is even coming to themselves and celebrating their life, their existence, celebrating the fact that we get to be here alive on this planet and create. Exist. Do things and experience creation! Experience the abundance of life. Good and bad, it’s such a beautiful thing we get to do.

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But, it’s not celebrated or talked about enough.

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And then you go to church and I’m like… I don’t really vibe with what’s going down here. You’re telling me as soon as I came into existence, I was a sinner and a shit human being and I need to repent and apologize for what? Literally being born?

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That’s insane to me!

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I feel like I should create my own church, but it’s not a church but instead a place we can all get together and celebrate existence. Celebrate God and be grateful to God, the Ultimate Creator (or whoever your God is) the very being which was… thought in itself, creation itself… we would not be here without that original thought of creation.

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I believe that’s what needs to be celebrated on a regular basis.

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Sunday is God’s day. Sunday = the Sun’s day; and like I said before, we do not exist without the Sun. So, Sunday is a beautiful day to be grateful, to rejoice, and verbalize your gratitude for life. I don’t really know where I’m going with this other than I feel like that’s what we need. We need a bunch of things, but that’s definitely one of the main things… gratitude for life. Being grateful to be here.

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Even though I know right now things are shit and a lot of people are crappy to themselves and other people, we have all this “war” shit going on… existence is crappy right now. But, you know what? We are the ones making it crappy.

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We are the collective, we collectively run society; our thoughts, our actions, our words are what create reality and this is what we’ve created. We created a world where people are selfish and mean and don’t care about Mother Earth, don’t care about themselves, their neighbors, their families, their friends, or even strangers. They don’t care about the soil we walk on, or the animals that exist around us, or the trees that literally give us air to breathe. We don’t care.

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We don’t care.

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We don’t care, and that’s the problem. That’s what needs to be fixed.

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America was founded on being a sovereign individual… being a being of God where no one can take that away from us. We have our rights strictly from being born and that’s what needs to be celebrated again. Often.

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So, I guess little me was on the right path with praying for love and peace every single day. I’m doing that again. Maybe one day I’ll create my own little community where we get together and celebrate the Ultimate Creator, celebrate life, celebrate love, the Sun, existence, creation. Where we celebrate being here and we love one another and we dance and sing… I see why there are church choirs and hymns… it really makes you want to sing and celebrate when you think about existence and life and the Ultimate Creator and everything it/we/they created.

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It’s pretty freakin’ sweet dude, like we can do whatever we want. We literally can. We’ve been taught from a young age that we can’t do whatever we want, that we have to grow up and go to school and then go to college and then go into your respective field and work your ass off until retirement age and then you can live and do whatever you want.

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Nah dude.

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If you don’t want to do that, don’t do it. Do whatever you want to do because you have the literal power to do whatever you want to do.

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The responsibility of your life is in your hands.

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We are here to experience so many things; so who are they (whoever “they” is) to tell you that you can’t do what you want to do, that you have to do this this and this instead and you have to be miserable for the rest of your life… for literally the majority of your life you just have to be miserable and work to the bone and slave to the dollar.

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Fuck that.

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No.

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Anyways… I don’t know. Christianity is interesting. My boyfriend says it’s the only religion based off of love… and I can see that.

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Love thy neighbor.

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Do what’s right.

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But then the question is, what’s right? What is right to you?

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Right is truth.

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If it feels like truth to you, if it feels in your body like yes this is what I’m meant to do and strive for and be and embody… go after that. Not what anybody tells you to do, including me. This is just Thoughts by Another Human, I don’t really know. I’m just here vibing, learning, existing, creating, loving. Trying to spread peace and help people realize life is in their hands.

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You can be happy long term. You can be healthy long term. You can wake up every single day and just feel so fucking good just to be alive long term.

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As someone who felt the complete opposite for so long, who would wake up miserable and depressed and would rather sleep my life away rather than live the life I was living… I had to realize those were all choices I was making. I was choosing to be miserable, I was choosing to go down the path of life sucks, everything sucks, people suck. Which yeah, people do suck sometimes… I even suck sometimes.

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But like, that doesn’t mean we as a collective suck.

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Again, we are not born sinners. Fuck that!

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No.

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We are born beautiful the way we are. I feel like it more has to do with how you grew up and the environment you were in that causes people to sin… whatever sin is. Sinning is what?

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What is sinning? Not living in truth? Living in lies, living in the controlled reality that’s given to us as soon as we take a fucking breath?

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Maybe that’s what sin is…

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Interesting thought for sure. Thoughts by Another Human coming in clutch.

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I don’t know where I’m going with this, this is a random episode, but just think about it for a minute. What is the purpose of this life for you?

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Why are you here?

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Why are you choosing to lead the life you lead? And, do you want to continue down that path?

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Or, do you want to choose gratitude, love, freedom. Freedom to live however you want.

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What a life.

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What a life…

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Song I feel jives well with this episode:

Thoughts by Another Human full playlist: