I grew up attending church, actually various churches. We were everything from Baptists, methodist to Mormans and back again. Sometimes I think we belonged to the church that was the shortest distance from our front door. My brother and I actually attended a baptist high schoor - gasp!

So you would think with all this exposure to the religious teachings that just a smidge of it would have permeated my consciousness. Wrong! Even after unteen years of preaching and mandated prayer I end up with one resounding conclusion. It is all bullshit!!

religion is based on myths - storytelling by people who wanted answers that their feeble minds could not comprehend nor explain. So they created sort of a father figure who had the job of looking over all of us and was the sole reason everything happened. Therefore, we could go about living our lives and not be bothered with real issues like, 'why are we here?' and such.

Then religion took an evil turn for the worse. The people who invented it decided they could add to it by telling others how they should live their lives. It would provide some sort of master plan as to the 'correct way to live'. all of this with love from the creator - of course.

Well, that did not go over well with everyone and one person who believed in the master plan became outraged with those who felt differently. So, wht should he do? I know, he should take a rock and bash the head in of those who think differently and take all his belongings in the name of the creator. Glad to figure that one out.

These myths and stories provided a means to make some people feel superior to others. Preachers and such used these feelings to weave the fabric of hate and thus found a machine that could provide money to fund their evil plans. Under the guise of love hate grows unchecked.

Current day we have politicians and leaders still operating under these hateful platforms pulling from the myths of religion. leading us into the pit of evil, in the name of the father , son and holy ghost.

Followers are all to happy to hand over their money and look down upon others simply because they do not believe the same way. these so-called christians are brimming with hate and violence. It is sad and reflects poorly on the human condition. People are allowed to mask hate in the pages of some piece of fiction and feel empowered to do so.

Is it any wonder religion never took to me.