In Continuum.

You read about the Devil all the time, but then he gets a lot less mentioning in the Bible than a lot of its characters. It is God's greatest enemy, though God is obviously taking his own sweet time in eradicating the Devil from the face of this planet. If God is really all that powerful, you cannot help but start to wonder this question - what in the world is He waiting for? The devil is right there, and apparently he is making a lot of people in our world doing crazy evil things to one another. If somebody comes along and destroys the things that I have carefully crafted, even if it was made in seven days, I am going to be super pissed. I mean, if God had the capacity to kill all the first-born in Exodus for no apparent reasons, I am sure he has the capacity to be pissed off as well. The capacity of jealousy is, after all, infinitely bigger than the capacity of anger, and I am sure He has room for that. So, if that is the case, I do wonder why he is allowing the Devil to create a havoc in his pretty little world. Maybe he is waiting for something to happen, maybe more people to die. Maybe everything is a part of his plan, and maybe there is a meaning to everything evil that has happened so far. If he does exist, though, I'd like him to explain what the fuck happened to the poor baby that the mother chopped up and ate.

If you have been reading the news, you'd have read about the cannibal mother who killed her three-week old baby and ate him. When the police arrived at her place, the crazed mother was found stabbing herself and telling everybody that she killed her baby. The baby was not only killed, but his head was severed from the body with the face completely torn off. His toes were chewed off by the mother, and the baby's brain was dug out and eaten as well. I apologize if the above description disturbed you, but this is a true story from one of the most disgusting news I have read about in recent times. I'd like God to answer to me why this three-week old baby was slaughtered and eaten by his own mother, and his divine powers didn't exactly come into play when the helpless baby just laid there. You know, you'd expect somebody as powerful as God to intervene or something, since he is all-knowing and all-wise. If this was part of the plan, I'd like to hear which part of his lousy plan this belongs to, because I do not see the purpose of a cannibalistic mother eating his own son at all. If there is a purpose to everything that ever happens in this world, I'd like to know why a three-week old baby had to suffer through all this. I don't think God is the legitimate person to be asking this question, but I'd just like to know. If your plan is so great, why did the baby have to die?

I couldn't get pass the first three paragraphs of the article that I read in the papers this morning. It isn't only because of the gruesome details that the report gave on the crime scene, but also the fact that the title of the article told me everything that I needed to know. Testifying for herself, her excuse for killing her son and then eating him was simple: the Devil made her do it. The Devil is a convenient excuse for many crimes out there, and it just seems like everything is less evil if it was because of the Devil. I mean, we all know about the Amityville Horror and the story that it was based upon. You know, the case about how Ronald DeFeo shot six of his own family and then later claimed that the Devil asked him to do it as well. I think it is easy if you are going to blame it on the Devil, because he is supposed to be the source of all that is evil, right. If you do something wrong, you want to think that somebody else has "possessed" you at that point in time, and that you weren't really yourself. That is the same basic human tendency to blame everything on inanimate or invisible objects, like fengshui. Humans don't like to think that they make mistakes or that they sometimes run into bad luck. So they blame everything on sofas, on fish tanks, on bed positions and toilet bowls. I'm sorry, but those are not just easy excuses, they are stupid excuses.

It is great that our justice system is not based on the rules of religion, because we'd all be really screwed if that is indeed the case. Just take a second off and imagine if our entire country is run based on religion, with our government and justice system tightly intertwined with it. If you say that you killed some poor old man due to greed and refuse to repent, you'd probably be punished severely by death. That seems fair enough, because I support death penalty in any country - not life. I mean, I don't want to know the tax that I pay is actually used to keep criminals (like Ronald DeFeo) alive in prison. I support the death penalty, and that seems like a fair result of a persecution, right. However, if the justice system is based around religious laws, and somebody comes up to you and say that she killed and ate her baby because the Devil asked her to do it, how would the court react? I am pretty sure that if they hear the word "Devil", their first reaction would be to shudder, and then all scramble into a back room to consult each other. If need be, they might even make a phone call to the Pope and ask him for his opinions, since he is probably always on standby in the Vatican, doing nothing much at all. What DOES a Pope do anyway?

So, a justice system based on religious laws, yes. This woman would probably go through an exorcizing session or something like that, and everybody would believe that the Devil got to her, causing her to eat her baby up. I mean, if you are a religious person, how do you dismiss that it was the doings of the "Devil" anyway? That is, of course, assuming that the Devil did do it, and that the woman was really a puppet of his grander evil scheme. She'd probably get out from the church with a warning and then carry on with her life, because it was really the Devil who did it instead of herself. I mean, if you can claim that the Devil exists and he asked you to do it, then you probably also have the capacity to believe in God and everything that comes along with it, right. I am not saying that every person who has a religion can turn into a psychopath and eat their family members. I am just saying that not everybody should have a religion, because it sprouts pointless and stupid excuses people use to try to get away with everything that they do wrong in life. I failed my exam because I was out partying like a wild animal last night, and it was all the Devil's fault. I shot a man at the convenience store for a bottle of beer because the Devil asked me to do it. I ran over my neighbor's cat with a lawnmower because, you guessed it, the Devil asked me to do it.

I think we should change that for a start, we shouldn't blame everything on the Devil anymore. Even if he is real and that he is truly evil, I am pretty sure that he is not responsible for all the evildoings in this world. I mean, with someone like Adolf Hitler, you know that it was all him, and he'd probably claim credit for what he did in the past anyway. So, the excuse of using the Devil is fast becoming old, and we really need something or someone else to blame it on. I think it is unoriginal if everybody is going to blame the same guy or the same thing. I mean, we are all individuals, we are all different from one another. It would be somewhat unnatural, the way that religion demands that people come under the same belief, for us to have the same target of our own wrongdoings. So, we should all pick someone or something else to blame, and this time it is going to be original. You can say that a talking cheeseburger asked you to do it, or you cat made you do it because it was starving. Or maybe the voice that comes out from your speakers when you play Linkin Park backwards asked you to do it, or maybe even Hannah Montana asked you to do it. The Jonas Brothers could have convinced you to do it, or maybe the unopened canned of tuna asked you to do it. For me, I am going to say that my toenail asked me to do it. Why? I don't know why, it's convenient. I have ten toenails, I'd just pick one for each crime that I commit. Convenient.

Going back to the original question that I posed, what really is the point of this baby being killed and eaten in the first place, other than maybe feeling the stomach of a really hungry mother? I mean, if this is all a part of this grand plan and everything happens for a reason, I want to hear the answer to - why? I think the truth is that even the big guy doesn't have an answer to a question like that. In fact, I don't think he even exists at all. It is news like that that makes you wonder if someone of a higher order exists at all. People always say that you shouldn't think of God in human terms because he has a higher order of thinking, or something. But if this is the quality of his "higher order thinking", it sucks. It really does, because there is nothing you can do to justify that an innocent baby deserved that. I think it would be unfair to say that religion did this, that it wasn't because of some psychological disorder that caused the mother to go completely psycho. It was probably was, and it is a shame that nobody around her saw this coming from a thousand miles away.

However, I am just calling out to a lot of people out there who believe that there is a plan to everything - there isn't. What happened on that day didn't appear on any plan, because plans don't happen like that. You can't even apply Murphy's Law here at this point and claim that shit happens, and we should just accept that a mother killed her son and ate him. There isn't a plan, because a mighty being probably wouldn't plan something this horrific into any forms of plan. I just find it somewhat amusing in a way that there are still so many people using the Devil as some kind of excuse, when he may not necessarily be half as bad as we make him out to be. I mean, of all the atrocities that mankind has ever endured, it has always been caused by other humans. If the Devil does exist, he probably exists within the dark hearts and minds of people out there with malicious intentions. I heard an explanation about the possession of the Devil in people today and how it affects people and their actions. I say, like many things in life, it is just humans trying to run away from their own responsibilities. So they created the Devil and blamed it on him, but they also created a mighty good guy, making them feel comforted that there is this powerful good guy who will destroy the powerful bad guy. It is all made-up, and a baby remains with his head severed from his head. Religion doesn't make any sense, and blaming it on the Devil doesn't make any sense either.