For hundreds of years, religion has been tearing the world apart. From the crusades of Eastern Europe to the constant fighting over the city of Jerusalem that still goes on today. More modern religious battles can even be seen throughout government and school systems here in the U.S. This is why many people, as well as myself, feel religion is unnecessary and corrupt. It tears people away from the true meaning of God. Instead of being a loving and forgiving race as God intended, being that we were made from his image, we are constantly arguing over who is right and whose god is the right god. As a matter of fact, this arguing, this “religion,” is ironically the main thing drawing people away from the idea of God as a whole.
Speaking as a kid who grew up in church, I know how intimidating the Christian church can be. Which is odd because I believe Christianity is supposed to be a religion based on acceptance and understanding; or so they say. I myself have rarely seen this side from the people who continuously say they’re carrying out “God’s will.” No, instead what I see are
thousands of misguided people who think they are above everyone. One can’t really blame them though, after all it is what they have been taught since birth. They grow up brainwashed into thinking that they are the only ones who have any understanding of God and that if you do not hold the title of “Christian” then you are surely damned to Hell. They then go and parade around with their Bibles high slamming them into the faces of those who question anything. On top of all this they choose to blindly follow a book filled with contradictions written thousands of years ago as simple poetry. That’s exactly like me taking the Song of Roland and convincing people that Roland was actually a prophet (I’m sure Christians wouldn’t have that hard of a time believing that actually). But back to my point, it is almost as if this Bible is the actual thing t...