when christianity and similar relgions annoy me
I have a lot of rants coming out of me today. I hope they are cohesive.
Ok, this is my main reason that I choose to, at this point in my life and any foreseable future, turn away from all organized relgion.
Whenever a catastrophe happens religious people that survive walk away and say things like this "God was with me that day, that is all I can say, I thank him everday for saving me." It can go on spewing things like "he has a plan for my life..." but ill just leave it at that.
Now this REALLY gets my goat. How can these people have the absolute NERVE and arogance to say such a thing, as if God chose to save that one person out of however many that died (a good example is the wtc buildings coming down. anyone that lived and talked about it on the news said this, yet all those few thousands of people died).
It goes further than this. People, especially us Americans, somehow equate our riches and luxury with GODS BLESSSINGS. Holy crap, this gets me going. Walk into darn near any church and you will hear someone say this. What the hell did America do to deserve the special attention and blessings of God, people do you really beleive we are some how special (morally or spiritually?), I mean comeon. And then the question comes, so all those people that are suffering or starving deserve it? All those people that died in the wtc deserved it (otherwise he would not have saved that one person who was being watched by god, instead god would have saved everyone).
I think that about covers it. To me this is just another example of the delusions the church has been propagating for centuries. And perhaps it could even be tied to the idea that religion is used to supress the masses, cause according to the above logic, God put me in this life as a wealthy person, therefor it is right for me to be wealthy.
God rewards hard work, because hard work is its own reward
edit: Title edited to make people that missed the point actual read it, and for people that ignore my words because they confuse what I say for real angst.
I have a lot of rants coming out of me today. I hope they are cohesive.
Ok, this is my main reason that I choose to, at this point in my life and any foreseable future, turn away from all organized relgion.
Whenever a catastrophe happens religious people that survive walk away and say things like this "God was with me that day, that is all I can say, I thank him everday for saving me." It can go on spewing things like "he has a plan for my life..." but ill just leave it at that.
Now this REALLY gets my goat. How can these people have the absolute NERVE and arogance to say such a thing, as if God chose to save that one person out of however many that died (a good example is the wtc buildings coming down. anyone that lived and talked about it on the news said this, yet all those few thousands of people died).
It goes further than this. People, especially us Americans, somehow equate our riches and luxury with GODS BLESSSINGS. Holy crap, this gets me going. Walk into darn near any church and you will hear someone say this. What the hell did America do to deserve the special attention and blessings of God, people do you really beleive we are some how special (morally or spiritually?), I mean comeon. And then the question comes, so all those people that are suffering or starving deserve it? All those people that died in the wtc deserved it (otherwise he would not have saved that one person who was being watched by god, instead god would have saved everyone).
I think that about covers it. To me this is just another example of the delusions the church has been propagating for centuries. And perhaps it could even be tied to the idea that religion is used to supress the masses, cause according to the above logic, God put me in this life as a wealthy person, therefor it is right for me to be wealthy.
God rewards hard work, because hard work is its own reward
edit: Title edited to make people that missed the point actual read it, and for people that ignore my words because they confuse what I say for real angst.
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