I know this is a very touchy subject, so for those who are going to be narrow-minded assholes and are going to start throwing their Bibles, Torahs, and other religious text or symbols at me, please hit the back button now. If you're too lazy to move your mouse, just use Alt + Left ArrowKey. For Mac users, I think it's Apple button + {. I have no problem with people having a faith and I don't have any problem with people who have a lack of one. But it's religious fanatics or anti-religious freaks who have priests taking notes that I can't stand.

For those of you with open minds and actually want to see the reasoning behind why I dare say such a thing, and aren't going to hold some fanatical bias, welcome to this part of the Rambles. Without further adue, and no prayer allowed, here is my bitch session about religion:

Ah, yes, that wonderful thing we call religion. You have a faith because your parents wanted you to have one. Usually you end up going with whatever they're believing in, simply because they give you no other choice or you find comfort in it. Other times, you say to hell with that and go find your own god or gods to worship. My main points of view are going to be geared toward Christianity and Catholicism because I find the two to be a joke nowadays, after the news I've been reading. That and I've yet to find anything blasphemous or ridiculous about any eastern faith or that of Wicca. (modern witchcraft to those of you who haven't the slightest what Wicca is.)

You go to church every Sunday and listen to why you're going to Hell. It's usually because you aren't getting on your knees every hour on the hour, in fear of your Creator, loving that Creator, because if you don't, you will be sent to Hell for doing so, even though your text claims that your Creator loves you whether you love him back or not. This has been the case with every Christian and Catholic church I've been to in my state and frankly it pisses me off to hear such hypocritical and brainwashing BULLSHIT! Maybe I just have shitty luck? According to Christianity, luck is not real even if I am considered lucky I survive something that should've by all means killed me. But so far, and with what I've been reading up on the 'more enlightened' people who are supposed to be 'closer to God', and frankly I think they just use religion as an excuse to be a fucking idiot and be loved for it. Not just an idiot but a fucking idiot. Big difference.

I read up on what the Pope had to say about sex. I laughed my ass off so hard I fell out of my chair. Basically, according to him, it should all be just kinda like a "wham, bam, thank you ma'am" kind of deal between husband and wife. Sex, according to him, is a sinful act, and it's even worse if you enjoy it. The husband shouldn't be allowed to find the sex pleasing in any sort of manner and the woman should just lay there like a corpse while her husband pounds away at her. Frankly, to be honest with you I haven't a clue how you can NOT enjoy sex, considering if you even grind your genitals into your own clothes the right way it'll get you screaming for more. And he kinda forgets that in order for the husband to 'plant seeds', he kinda has to enjoy it on an orgasmic level. I've yet to find a person walking upon this earth who hates having orgasms. By a psychologist standpoint, perhaps even Freudian, something's seriously wrong with you if you hate having orgasms. So essentially by the Pope's standpoint, sex in itself is a sinful act. It's even more sinful if you enjoy it. We aren't supposed to sin. Yet it's perfectly okay if we commit them for the right reasons, in this case, bringing up a family. Congradulations - Your kid is automatically fucked for life because he was created by vileness!! Maybe we're all just Hellspawns trying to get our place back in Heaven by that mark? Who knows...who cares!? This is the same guy who goes and claims that the HIV virus is God's way of punishing homosexuals, yet straight people are getting bombarded with it just as bad. What's his explanation for that one? The Catholic God hates straight people too?

And Christianity...what the hell!? They preach about "Love thy neighbor" and "judge not lest ye be judged". Yet these people are the first to go out and blame everything on witchcraft so goddamn fast you're swearing to your own gods they're still living the Burning Times in their minds. And if not that, everything bad occuring on this planet down to losing pubic hairs is blamed on a symbolized epitome of darkness and evil aka the devil. But everything good occuring today was never God's doing. It was theirs. Back in the day when the Christian God turned people into pillars of salt however, anything was the Christian God's doing. Hmm, sounds like someone's taking the credit and using a scapegoat for the blame, now that the Christian God doesn't outright start taking away like crazy. Now I understand why I want to kill my former friend James. Nothing's ever his fault and everything good he thinks he does is his doing even when he had no active part in it. Yet because I choose not to believe in the Christian God, I am going to burn in Hell and every good Christian in the world should pray for my soul in the hopes that the Christian God is going to forgive me for what I am supposedly lacking knowledge of.

And marriage in these two faiths are supposed to be bindings made in Heaven blessed with the Lord's blessing. Marriage is done till death tears you apart. Yet the law of a mortal man can decree it null and void at any time the two people who married, feel like seperating through divorce? Since when did man suddenly have power over his own god? This is the main reason why I think these two faiths are bullshit. Granted, it'd be the right thing to do if the husband is an abusive drunken bastard and the wife is beaten all the time. At least in our society that decrees that women shouldn't be hurt by abusive husbands, it stands that way. Not to mention the fact that the people themselves are really fucking STUPID! If you go out and get married, you're saying to that person that you want to spend the rest of your life with that person because you love them, you need them, and you're not going to do ANYTHING to harm or hurt them. If you're a potential wifebeater, stay single, or I will kill you.

Let me tell you something for you Catholics and Christians who have by this point are now about ready to kill me. I understand why you would want to, because you're probably feeling very insulted. But let me tell you this:

I've seen the Catholic God. I've seen the Christian God. I don't agree with either. I have prayed to both of them and very few times have my prayers ever been answered. When I needed the help I requested in those prayers, they went unanswered. I needed to stay in my Pre-Calculus class. In order to do so I needed to pass it for the semester on a Final Exam. I studied hard all semester long, and no matter how hard I tried, even to the point of tears, I couldn't do it. I prayed for their help, I prayed for anyone's help. I had NO help, save Cory's time with me in trying to help me understand. I failed that final exam so badly I would've gotten a better grade if I just turned in an empty scantron sheet. Thus, I was dropped. I lost all my faith in either God then. I refer to them as different ones because despite the similarities of faith in Christianity and Catholicism they both have their own ways of seeing the same Great Being. I felt it would only be appropriate that I do so to avoid offending anyone by equating the two as the same.

Now, for all you god-fearing, or god-loving people who have come here...you now know the reason why people walk out on your faiths and turn to other ones or even to Atheism, the lack of believing that there is a god or set of gods: We feel like your gods one day walked out on us and never looked back.