I am certainly not a religious person. I was not raised religious (thanks Mom and Dad). I can appreciate and respect that everyone is entitled to believe what they want, and to have their own opinion. Hence my feeling that I too can have my own opinion on this matter.
I guess it's just never made sense to me, even as a child. Someone in the sky, created us.. They create us out of love. Very few things within the bible sound like love to me. It started with Adam and Eve... So would that not make us all one family? Through blood lines? If God loves everyone, why is there so much suffering? Why are some people then given special treatment?
If I were to believe in such things, and everyone was created equal on this earth.. Then certainly we would all have equal opportunities.
Like I said, you can believe what you want. But there are some major flaws in this story.
Love everyone? HA! Religion is full of the most judgemental bullshit in the world. So many rules on who will go to heaven and who will be cast into flames! Personally, I would NEVER want my children growing up thinking of they make mistakes in life, or choose to live their life differently they will go to hell. That's awful!
I guess I consider myself more, scientific as oppose to spiritual. I believe there are many things that can't be explained in this world.. Would I chalk it up to an imaginary person in the sky, NO! This world, this planet, is complex. Things evolve and change, and there is major evidence to back this up.
Ever play the game telephone? Where a story is passed around and eventually through being heard and told by so many different people, the story ends up so changed.. Well, isn't that how the bible came to be? Stories. Stories that were passed on. And if Jesus rose from the dead, would that not make him a zombie?
Oh the questions I have! I guess what really angers is me.. is religious folk who love to preach to you! Who stop you in the street, and tell you that you need saving! Or explain to you how God's light can enhance you. I can't even count the number of times people have told me I need saving.. is it because I fucked up God's temple by getting tattoos and piercings. Is it because you can see my soul, and it is SCREAMING for some bright white light to smack it upside the head? I do not tell you that you need mental help for thinking things you do.. so just stop.
I've been left pamphlets at workplaces, about how my soul will burn if I don't beg for saving. That's straight ignorant! These people protest about every little thing that offends them.. Gay marriage, abortion, Halloween.. basically everything they dislike. When do non-religious people protest outside a church on Sunday screaming at them that they are wrong? I should start! Who's in?!?
Wars are started based on religion, and thousands of people die.. Does that sound like something a loving God would want to happen?
Aliens.. well.. that can't be.. because we are the only intelligent beings in this VAST universe ya know! Ha.. ya.. that has intelligence written ALL over it! How ignorant and small minded can you be. There has to be something out there... we haven't even begun to see everything in the universe.. it goes on forever!
Dinosaurs.. God put fossils in the ground, to test our faith! WTF!! That is insane! How can anyone possibly think that.. and fully never doubt that may not be fact.
But don't question what you've been trained to believe! God might smite your stupid ass!
