sorry to post this here, but I can't really do so on my normal social outlets.
I dislike religion. Esp the Jewish-Christian-Muslim family of it.
I'm tolerant, I don't critsize or put religion or the people who believe in it (assuming they've actually researched it) down.
But I simply can't believe in some all-powerful, all-knowing being that meddles in humanity, gives a shit about what we do, makes us suffer through this hellhole of an existance because it LOVES us (??), and then gets pissy if we don't love it and worship it back.
Let's face it. Humans are boring AF so WHY would it bother, and that sounds like a school bully or Trump or something.
Not an omniscient, benevolent existance.
Anyhow, any time I've come in contact with someone who's practicing religous, I've ended up offended or hurt.
Whether it's because they insist I can't possibly be a good person because I haven't read a f'ing 2000 year old book...
(uh, hi, I have morality and a brain that I use from time to time...)
Or because I know they'd be ashamed to introduce me to their religous friends because I'm NOT religous...
(well, sure, when it gets to that point, I don't particularly feel like meeting militant agnostophobes but still...)
Or when I say I can't accept x practice because it's no longer logical in the 21st century and causes people harm, and am told that I "couldn't understand the logic behind it because I don't have faith"....
(oh nooo - faith is, by definition, belief without logic and proof so let's not pull that card...)
Well, you know? That feels kind of bad. I don't particularly like being discriminated against, or told that I'm bad or dumb for having a different, equally valid, world view.
I think I'll be happy to move to Japan, which is pretty much as secular as you can get.
Btw just got back from India. Northern India was great. Hinduism didn't force itself on us.
But in Eastern India, because of the Muslim influence, we had to stay in a shitty, dirty hotel because it was the only one that allowed non-married couples to share rooms.
Like, get out of my face religion. I don't believe in your gods, your forcing yourself on us, and your xenophobie.