I believe that Simeo
Ondeto is God. That is my belief. I don’t know why some people are amazed by my
belief. Maybe it is because they think their beliefs are superior to mine. Well,
I don’t care what other people think about my beliefs. I just can’t stop my
life and my world to wait for all other people to agree with me. Neither do I
have to wait for every member of every religion to explain their beliefs to me.
But I live by the doctrine of live and let live, for that was the teaching of
Simeo Ondeto himself when he called all his followers to shun all forms of
religious bigotry.
The other day, someone
was so surprised that I believed Simeo Ondeto was God that he had to stop and
ask me whether I really meant what I said.
I affirmed and he got mad, trying to preach to me without invitation and
telling me how I needed Jesus more than anything.
Hahahaha! I laughed at
him so loudly that he was shocked to the core.
“Did I say something
funny,” he asked in shock.
“Yes, you did,” I
replied and laughed even louder.
You may wonder with me.
Why do some people say funny things and expect their listeners not to laugh. It
is crazy!
Here was a man who had
never gone to heaven, who has never seen God, or simply, who never saw Jesus of
Nazareth, expecting me to dump the faith that I have experienced in my time and
know best in order to believe in his interpretation of scripture without
question. And when I question him, he says that God is beyond questioning. OK.
Thank you. If your God is beyond questioning then mine too is beyond questioning.
Here was a man who
admitted during the course of our conversation that the Bible could not explain
everything about God and the afterlife, telling me that my beliefs were wrong
and his were right. Well and good. Then if the Bible has not explained where
God came from and where he is going, why do you use the same Bible to purport
to explain where the God I believe in is and where he is going.
Here was a man who could
not explain why Jesus appeared and disappeared after his “bodily” resurrection,
telling me how I was wrong to believe in a man who never resurrected and is now
still dead. Well, dear friend, if those guys who shared the same road to Emmaus
with “Jesus” could not recognize him until their eyes were open and he could
then disappear again, how can you claim that your eyes are open enough to know that
Simeo Ondeto is still dead?
In all honesty, I
practice my religion without caring about how others practice theirs. In fact, I never stop by the door of any
pastor to ask him why God murdered Egyptian children just because of Pharaoh’s
stubbornness.
I never stop by the door
of any pastor to question why God could not give the people of Israel the
promised land of Canaan without slaughtering innocent children, pregnant women
and helpless elders.
I never stop by the door
of any pastor to doubt the 40 days Jesus is said to have fasted without anyone
being with him and yet his conversation with the devil is known?
I never stop by the door
of any pastor to question why God had to allow Mary to be betrothed to Joseph
then having the spirit impregnate her without Joseph knowing. Shouldn’t simple
courtesy have been enough even if the will of God had to occur?
I never stop to question
any pastor why the genealogy of Jesus is different in the two inspired gospels
of Mathew and Luke.
And I never stop to
question the turning of water into wine, the feeding of thousands of people,
the casting of demons into pigs, the walking on water, the empty tomb, the
ascension, and many more things that strike me as untrue in the bible.
I accept them in good
faith as part of the fiber that makes up the fabric of Christianity. Even
though some of them don’t make sense, I accept them foolishly, without
question. I recognize that the gospel of
the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing but power to those who are
saved.
I also know that liberal Christians who have
doubted some of them or even questioned them have been branded atheists. I am
not an atheist. I am a believer. I believe in Simeo Ondeto and by extension a
believer in Christ, the redeemer. I have
learned to accept the teachings of Christianity, even the most dubious ones.
But I
will never stop laughing at those pastors who preach to me their beliefs while
rejecting mine as foolish.
Hahahaha! You can’t tell
me that I should believe that God spoke to Joseph in a dream and reject the
voice of God when he speaks in a dream today. Dreams are still dreams.
And by the way, who set
the standard that all who are worshipped as God must resurrect? Is it not the
delusion of Christianity to claim that what their God did must be the standard
for judging any other God? Even if resurrection of Jesus were true, why must Buddha
or Mohammed resurrect?
Hahahaha. Pastors never
cease to amaze me.
In my mind, death is
death. God can’t die. The immortal can’t die. So resurrection or no resurrection,
once one can die he is a mortal. He who can die for an hour, three days, or a
million years is a mortal, regardless of claims of resurrection thereafter. The
same way the universe can thrive for an hour, three days or a billion years
when that God is still waiting his resurrection is the same way it continues to
thrive without the resurrection of God.
And even if resurrection
was the golden standard for all who claim to be God, who said that resurrection
had to occur in three days for all such claimants? What if a claimant to
divinity is to resurrect after a billion years? Isn’t God eternal?
Look, my friend. I am never
and will never be ashamed of believing in a dead God, if that is what you think
I believe in. Sure. I have never and will never be ashamed of Simeo Ondeto. I
believe him fully. And as long as we are discussing beliefs, he will stand as
the rock of my faith regardless of how much you try to demean him.
When I was a child, I
could be cheated. I listened to pastors shouting hoarse about other faiths and
thought they were right. I heard pastors insult Ondeto in public and thought
that pious men were ordained by God and given an unquestionable right to insult
others in public. For even if Ondeto was just a man, does he deserve public
insults just because you disagree with the belief system he has founded?
Well, nowadays I know
better. I know that every religion that
seeks to convert people must behave like a political party, spreading “pious”
propaganda in the name of God just to add in new converts, more tithes and more
wealth for the clergy.
So let me laugh at you
just as you laugh at me. After all, if your God were more evident that mine,
there would be no need for faith in yours just as in mine.
Preach your doctrines my
friend, but allow me also to believe mine. I don’t need the Jesus you preach
for I already have Jesus that suffice for me. He is Simeo Ondeto.