As a proud Athiest, I feel I'm best qualified to answer this, (ha ha haa...)
Okay, I'm not into religeon, I think that this life is all we get so we have to live like there's no afterlife. Having said that, I don't really do anything against the bible, (for example,) except swear, and say the lord's name in vain a Hell of a lot.
Still, I have seen how religeon has helped people, and I think that's great. A cousin of mine we all thought was going to go nuts and bring a semi-automatic weapon to a shopping mall, but he turned to God and he's turned out all right.
That's all well and good, BUT the whole family, meaning my Aunt, Uncle and three cousins, have all got into the church in a freaky way. They go to one of those churches where someone yells at them upfront telling them that God did this and that and how they're all going to Hell and by the way we're passing the collection plate twice today so I want to see some credit cards in there this time people, and they just raise their arms heavenward and shout "AMEN."
They pray a shit-load, my Aunt blesses every room once she's finished cleaning it, whenever I entertain them with a musical performance, (they always ask me to play the piano which I keep telling them I gave up when I was thirteen,) they always say 'God has gifted you child' and I am so fucking close to exploding and telling them that "God hasn't done shit!" I mean, it's one thing to compliment someone, but it's a whole different thing to say that "You havn't put any work into this talent of yours and God did it all for you." Fuck that. I worked fucking hard for my musicality.
They also gave me a christian book for christmas which has so much capitalisation of names in it that I knew it was trying to convert me so I stopped reading before the third chapter. I found myself agreeing with it too much so I stopped and thought, "Wait, is this really what I think?" turned out no, and that the book was warping my mind. Fuck them for trying to do that. I've chosen my way of life giving the cold shoulder to God, if that comes back and bites me in the arse later than I'll just have to cope with burning in Hell for all eternity. It can't be that bad I mean, there must be shit-loads of interesting people down there.
So in closing, religeon can be good IN LIFE by helping troubled people find support, (or giving them the inspiration to blow up themselves and a few non-believers, but I won't go into that,) but it can also ruin smeone's life by making you dedicate yourself to some bastard in a robe who's finding God by emptying out a lot of other people's pockets and seeing if there's anything inside, ("Only $100 this week Murial, I think we're going to have to take out another mortgage on your house arn't we.")
Fuck them. Fuck that. People can believe what they want to believe but enforcing it on other people or using it to take money from people is just wrong.
Ty out.
Last edited by Tyferra (2006-03-24 17:38:45)