Okay, it's time for me to rant. Thank you for the posts and prayers but now I have something to write.
A lot of you are Christian, but that is because that is what your parents told you when you were very young was the right religion and I live in the United States of America where Christianly is a very popular religion. However if you all were raised in China, you'd all probably Buddhist. Or if you were raised in the middle east, you'd most likely be Muslims. So it all depends where one is raised that decides their religion.
And it's true I could be wrong, but what if you are all wrong about the Christian religion and that it was not the right path to God. Maybe Judaism is the way to God and you're all going to burn in Hell for following a false prophet. The truth is, Christians are just at risk of burning in Hell forever as atheists are
I just feel like religion is holding me back. What if it is all fake and we are wasting our lives? Instead of obsessing over where we're gonna be when we die, what's wrong with living for today? And enjoying the great things about the earth?
My parents are human and they are not always right, but because some book says I have to honor them, I'm supposed to go along with everything they say, even if they are wrong?
And I am only a human being and God supposedly put the desire to mate inside me and yet I'm not allowed to look at a attractive young woman and think she is pretty because that's a sin.
I'm not allowed to go drink beer, get drunk, have fun and party because it's a sin.
I tried to follow the rules last year and it made me crazy. Anytime I did sin, I felt guilty...kinda like how I feel guilty when I cheat on my diet and I'm tired of that.
I also have learning disabilities that have really screwed my life up and have pretty much ruined it and made me what I am today, and yet I am just supposed to shut up and accept the hand I'm dealt? What about those people who have ir worst then me? The blind? The deaf? The physically and mentally handicapped? People that are born deformed? What did those poor people do to deserve what they got?
And what about homosexuals? Despite what many rednecks think, you are born gay. And yet they are not allowed to enjoy their lives and are told they are gonna burn forever. They could be good people, and yet they are treated worst then trash by Christians.
And what about women? The bible treats women like they are just slaves. Women are supposed to go along with what their husbands say, even if it is wrong. That's not right.
And of course, because I am defending gays and women I am sure many people here will think I am gay, well I am not.
And I feel so sorry for kids who aren't allowed to go trick-or-treating on Halloween because their Christian parents tell them it's the night of Satan...I mean even from a Christian point of view, I ask..why give Satan power? Halloween is only Satan's night if you allow it to be. Don't let Halloween be Satan's night and don't give the colors of red and black to Satan either. That's how I see it.
Same deal with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. There are kids out there who will never get to enjoy those characters because their Christian parents tell them those characters are of the Devil who is trying to take the spotlight away from Christ.
And another thing, sorry to say this...but I don't think Christians are very real. They're so happy all the time and act so shocked and offended whenever something that doesn't fit into their Norman Rockwell way of life comes along. Life is hard and is full of pain and yet Christians act like everything is wonderful. And it seems to me that if you're Christian, you can't truly enjoy your life and your whole life revolves around some old book that is most likely not true...and if it isn't, then you all have wasted your entire lives when you could have been out having fun and yes, even "sinning" a little.
I studied religion A LOT last year. I studied a lot of religions, especially the Christian religion and I am 24-years old. I'm not some gullible little child here who's gonna believe fairy tales about a man being swallowed alive inside a whale or stories about talking snakes or 12 foot giants or people living to be 500 years old or burning bushes or the story of Noah and the ark or about a man raising from the dead....without having a few questions to ask. They all sound like fairy tales meant to teach people lessons about life. We're all adults here...most of us anyway and do you all honestly believe that those things happened on this very earth we live in now?
I think some of the stories in the bible are true, others are not. I think many of the authors of the true stories really stretched the truth a lot. Like I think the story of David and Goliath may be true, but I doubt Goliath was 12 feet tall.
In closing, I just think religion was invented to keep people in line and to conform and do as they are told. I also think it was made up by a bunch of redneck tough guy men and that is why being gay is a sin and why women are just supposed to obey the man. And the men wrote in the bible that if we didn't all just do as we are told, we'll burn in Hell forever and ever. But if we obey, we go to Heaven where everything is just perfect forever and ever............
Sounds like something off the Disney channel to me and it sounds like a big con to me to get people to do as they are told...just like Santa Claus was invented to get kids to do as they were told.
People back in the olden days were more gullible then people today, so they'd believe anything, but in this day and age...people should know better now.
