To start this off, I would like to note that this blog has nothing to do with any hate towards religious peoples. I am not trying to show my non-exsistant hate for priests and other religious leaders. I know that 99.999% of the people in this world are religious, and nothing I, or anyone else can do will ever change that. Most of my friends are religious, and I have absolutely no problem with that. This blog is to show my despise of religion as only an idea.
I am not a religious person. I was born a religious person, and grew up until about the age of 13 as a Roman Catholic. Then the goodness and joy represented by the priests all collapsed and I saw true religion, and what it can do. I quickly learned that most followers of the church stay with the same thing that they are told from the start. And they follow it strictly. It’s called the bible. It’s called the Tanakh. It’s called any type of “sacred” name that those born into any religion are almost required to follow.
Now my point. Why should we go through life making our decisions based on what our religion, that most don’t choose, actually, says. Why don’t people just choose to be a free thinker? It’s okay if you want to believe in god, because I know people need to believe in something, but when it comes to the church telling you whats true about anything, you don’t have to believe it. But you will. And thats what religion does to us.
I remain unreligious. I don’t say I believe in god, but I don’t say I’m atheist. I believe somethings up there.
I might delete this later. It’s rather unorganized, and I was just throwing down alot of random points.
I agree. Most “religion” is ugly in that it’s sometimes difficult to find the good in it. But in the case of Christianity, (I’m a biased Christian), the ugliness doesn’t come from the core tenets – it comes from people. Arrogant, hurtful people, who happen to call themselves Christian. If you like, check out my blog where my whole purpose is to compare the truth of Jesus Christ to the ugliness of Christian churches.