I'm not anti-religious, or at least I don't consider myself to be. It's just that the way they do it here makes me uncomfortable. I don't feel like I belong here at all. I think people should keep it to themselves and within the church, not integrate it as fact into everyday life at everyone around them. I can't connect with them and a lot of it seems like brainwashing the weak willed. Sorry but that is what it seems like.
I'll tell you a story from when I was a kid, 10 or 11. This was the last year or 2 my mom made me go to church before giving up and saying OK you can just stay at home. I was at some Christian summer camp and one night they brought all the kids to sit together and listen to a guy preach a "revival" where they try to "save" people on the spot. So I'm listening to the guy and nothing he's saying is applicable to my life at all and I'm starting to zone out and think about Nintendo or something. Suddenly I hear something and I look over at my friend, one of my best friends at the time, and he's got a hand in the air and crying like Tammy Faye. It didn't feel like oh I want to feel that way. It felt like I just woke up in the Twilight Zone and he was brainwashed. I've never felt so disconnected from someone in my life. Anyway that's one of the horrors I recall. Besides that there's just argument after argument of the stupidity such as why even send a son, why not pop your head in the sky every once in a while, oh yeah that's right the gay faith game that makes no sense but is so convenient for a church institution. Why burn kids in hell, why, if he plans everything, would he plan for retards and child rape and child murder. I won't accept/worship that even if it is all true, and that's the tip of the iceberg.
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