I'm in a good mood today. Which is nice, because I spent lots of last week under, as football reporters tend to put it, "under a cloud of discontentment." There wasn't anything major to contribute to my general feeling of meh, but it just happened.
One reason though, was religion. I hate religion. Nothing pisses me off more than the notion of a group of people all worshipping the same higher being, organised in a heirachy. It really, seriously, mystifies me why so many people believe it all. Was it not created as a means of control? "Do this, this and this, or X God will do Y, Z and A to you!" Surely, with almost all of this shit having been disproven, they'd have moved on by now. But no, I know there are still Christians- some of them even believe all the words in the best selling fiction work of all time, The Bible! Like, all of them. Apparently, all the bits that have been disproved are metaphors. Oh, right. So it didn't happen like that at all? But you just thought it did for thousands of years? So what if the whole lot is a metaphor, and it means, if you read into it; "Some old monk bloke is absolutely pissing himself somewhere." I say this because I don't disbelieve there may be a higher power. But why is he a white guy with a beard? As far as I can see, he always looks like he's about to go and tinker under the bonnet of an old MG somewhere. And why is Jesus, of Nazareth, a white guy? I hear he was probably a Jew, if geography is right. So...it's racist? That thing with all the fishes and the people? Oh, there were 50 people, and 49 fishes? And what, 12 loaves of bread? Shit me, he's almost running a fish and chip shop! And what about the big ark? The one where everyone but 2 people were killed, and all the animals came on board...that didn't happen either? If it did, we're surely all descendents of animal loving water gypsies! I mean, I love the idea as much as anyone else, but what did they eat for 40 days and 40 nights? And what about plants? Damn, that Jesus guy must've been pretty special, huh? Getting crucified, and surviving!
I would go on, but I feel I should stop. If I go on much more, I reckon I'm gonna get lightning bolted, or worse. Perhaps a plague of locusts, or a new Alan Carr TV show. So ditch the idea of organised religion from your life, remove the hypocritical ideolgies too. Enjoy life free of stale, old "metaphors" and tall tales based on lies and exaggeration. It angers me so much, that people are still being sucked into this bollocks, day after day.
"There is only one truth, that God loves you," I was told once. Well yeah, I have a reasonable life. But what about Steve in Gaza, who's family are all dead, or Jonny in Zimbabwe who has no water. Arthur in Vietnam, disfigured after the war. Explain those, you hypocritical, selfish idiots. Open your eyes to the world, and have a look what's going on. There aren't any arks. There are no oceans being parted, and I can't see anyone walking on water. Have faith in yourself, and others, but don't put all your love into "God." He only seems to make things worse.
(Disclaimer. Please be aware these are my own views, and that you don't have to share them. I do blame religion for most of the world's problems, and I do think it gives false hope to those who need hope most. I concede that our moral code, which is worthy enough when it's actually followed, is based on religion. But it seems like religion seems to walk all over these morals all the time. Please do not be offended, and if you do, pray for some deity to strike me down. That'd be a hell of a way to prove your point, huh? Never mind that it partly proves mine.)
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