Put in the simplest of manners, religion is utter bs to me. Now, before you start your attack, I’d like to tell you why. I’m most well aware of christianity, so I’m going to talk about that. A bit about the bible.

First off—dates. Six thousand years—that is approximitelly how old the Earth is according to the bible. Now, that is true only if ‘days’ means what we now call ‘days’, but after going though a lot of interpretations of all sorts we get to the conclusion that… there is no conclusion. Everyone is going to start saying different things, and try to claim that there are no flaws in “God’s words”, but rather we don’t understand them. Ok, fine. Well, wasn’t the bible written by people? Not that I’m trying to bash, who am I kidding, yes I am.

I have not read the whole bible, but my teacher, being a true believer, taught us the bible in GREAT detail in ninth grade. We literally studied the bible a whole semester. During one class she told us how we should respect other religions, then started bashing on those who propose that you come back in a different form after you die. I pointed out the double negative to her and was met with no logic and such words as:

“No, I am simply saying that it seems funny to me that people wouldn’t kill an ant, because it might be their great grandfather”

“You just did it again.” She ignored me and continued her story.

Religion is a never ending dispute between me and my teacher. A dispute which I am obviously winning with logic, but she seems to ignore, because of her blind faith. I feel obliged to say that I am actually, sincerely, very envious of true believers, because they are ready to follow a figure, which may or may not have existed, just because a book told them to.

Something else which I cannot accept about Christianity is negativity towards other religions. Doesn’t the bible teach us to “love thy neighbor as thyself”. Well, sorry to break it to you, but people that believe in another God/gods is a “neighbor” too. So is the homosexual couple down the street and the closeted gay who lives in that “perfect” christian neighbourhood, afraid to come out, because his family might disown him. Every one who does not follow the church’s beliefs is a fool: people who believe in another god are fools, people with a different lifestyle are fools, people who enjoy profanity are fools. Basically, we are all fools, and we are all going to hell. I am 17 years of age, and I am already damned to go to hell according to some of the rules you have to follow to be accepted in the “heaven” club.

This is how I see religion. I see it as a way to disconnect people. How many wars have been caused by religion? How many lives have been taken because of it? We are all torn apart by it. Every christian is following blindly some religion that has only a man-made book as “proof”. It’s bs. Most of my friends are going to hell, you know teenagers: premarital sex, “wrong” sexuality, agnotism etc… oh well, at least we’ll be warm.

And no, I was not talking about the probable existance of “God”, I was talking about the “God” and the beliefs of christianity. In case you thought that, you should start differentiating between “God”, “church” and “Religion”. God-not sure about that one… maybe? Church-created to scare people and use them. Religion-I already said what I think about that