If God was one of us, he'd be pretty ticked that people were betting against his existence.

Religion is a slippery slope. It's worse than politics. If I had to bet on the existence of a God, I would bet that there isn't one. Can't people just be satisfied that some things in life are unexplainable? That's what this concept of God was implemented for, to explain the unexplainable and give reason to our existence. I'm not an idealist in any way, but simply living should be all the reason we need to exist. Religion has caused too many conflicts and feuds to convince me that there are redeeming qualities left to it. It has created far more judgmental, hot-headed, complacent people than well-rounded, truly religious individuals.



I grew up going to a Catholic church every Sunday. Religion was forced upon me, and as a kid, I believed it. But as I grew older and more inquisitive, I realized that the same people that forced religion on me were hypocrites. But I can't blame those people because they were cornered into their beliefs by other hypocrites. It's a huge cycle that only leads to the degradation of the true concept of religion, which of course has been grossly misconstrued into an oppressive institution over the past hundreds of years. While I believe that religion in some ways shapes us into good humans, we shouldn't need an invisible, all-knowing superhuman dictating what constitutes a good person.



Now, if I could just break it to those smelly old ladies sitting in the front pew of St. Joe's...