Sunday, July 26, 2009

What amoeba decided to grow legs and then a conscience??

So I have a subscription to Alternative Press that a friend bought me for Christmas. And as I was flipping through today, I noticed in the AP Poll, where they ask fans and band members to respond to a yes or no question every month, they had asked, "Do you believe in fate?" Reading through the answers from the bands to see what kinds of opinions people that I admire have, I read the following quote and proceeded to put down the magazine on the spot and write this blog post (with my own emphasis on the BEST part):

"Surprise, surprise; I do believe in a higher power. I personally believe in the God of the Bible, Jesus Christ. I grew up in church, but then in my late teens and early 20s, I rebelled and just didn't care. But I could never escape a few questions in my life that kept bringing me back to God. What amoeba decided to grow legs and then a conscience?"
-Toby Morrell of the band Emery

Um... How about... That's not how it works? Just because you don't have the intellect to understand something doesn't mean that you should ascribe it's occurrence to a fairy tale. Farther down in his little paragraph on fate, he goes on to say the following:

"There is truth and you can choose to find it or not."

Looks to me like Emerey's Toby Morrell has chosen not to find it. Because it's too hard for his brain to comprehend. I think that the thing that bothers me most about this is that he is in the public forum of this magazine, which thousands of young impressionable teens attempting to emulate their favorite bands will pick up and read. And when an 14 year old Emery fan reads that quote, he might say, "Wow, I love Emery and think they are awesome guys, so this must be right! Where could humans possibly come from other than God? I don't need to try to learn anything from my ninth grade biology class, because I have already CHOSEN to find the truth in this one quote from a dude in a band I like that God did everything."

It's annoying when you yourself choose to ignore something that you are not smart enough to understand. It's more than that when you decide to tell other people that what you believe is true, just because you are not smart enough to understand any alternatives, and imply that they should believe it too. Especially when you are a public figure for young impressionable people. Way to go, Toby Morrell. Way to go.