Published by A kind of storm is stirring. This irrelevant yet powerful calamity which has plagued Earth for an age or more, is starting to be discovered for what it really is. A farce. Religion is a powerful weapon, nothing more than a convoluted set of confused morals to keep the insecure and fearful busy. Most refer to creed as the “opiate of the masses” or allude to the fact that religious fanatics are stupid. I hardly think believing in something higher than yourself makes a person ignorant or weak, in fact quite the opposite. However, there is something to be said about the attitudes of some God fearing people, for example the Christians, or “God’s mascots” as I refer to them. At times I convince myself that these people are deluded somehow or rather the evident boastful demeanor and lack of tact is just a mask covering the face of a crying child. Although, you must remember that they aren’t this way because they want to be…they simply know nothing else. The social upbringing of most Americans from childhood to death involves religion in someway or another. From the first dollar they earn to the haunting words of their eulogies, it’s everywhere they look. It’s Pepsi-Cola. It seems so backwards. A religion that persecutes others for not believing and yet decrees, “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you” [Matthew 7:120}.
One shouldn’t look any further than that. Let it be known, this in no way meant as an attack, but a lesson learned and then recycled. Any American today would condescendingly tussle the hair of a child who declared Harry Potter a non-fiction biography. Why then do these parents get on their knees that very night and pray to their vengeful God? Is it because the Bible is an easier read than J.K. Rowling? Hardly. Christianity and religions in general are a promise. A golden ticket if you will. For men anyway. If you’ve been good…and haven’t blasphemed. Like a gullible child on Christmas Eve, many people have found solace with said promise just like their parents did. A man who will take on all your sorrow and misgivings and what? Put them in a “to-do” bin? These prayers or “venting sessions” seem dangerous to me. In fact, all I see is people bottling up their sadness and fear while quietly blaming everything on their big friend in the sky. Eventually repressing it deep down with hands clasped and tangled with beads adorned with a pagan symbol. It confuses me. Television (in America) is flooded with false promises of hope and salvation and that’s not even including the religious programming. When a religious fanatic is questioned about belief is a good time to be watchful for telling behavior. Look for angst and fear based anger whilst they tell the interviewer, “it’s God’s way or the highway”. They tend to mistake these outbursts for passion rather than misdirected pain they can’t even fathom how to deal with. Their answers concerning personal political leanings, social issues, and life in general all have something to do with God. How they dismiss the exponential amount of religious sects that Christianity is based upon is beyond me. It’s not like any of these ideas are new, I just know that the more knowledge is passed on, the more people think before they speak out of anger.
