Religion - insert coin, please.

Why it is so important to feel attached to the great illusion? Do we feel desperately alone with the absence of god? What is the all idea of religion, anyway?

To be born as an atheist, there's sure a lot of confrontations ahead of you!

But it´s not a question of choice, really!

It sucks when people get annoying around trying to convert me... What it is to me just as natural as it can be, to think the way I do!

I feel it, just as a very personal thing (and it will be fun to explain, next episode, OK?). Religions just makes you standard, formatted; It´s like a much less free world, full of rules, you don't really get it what they are for...

But see my point of view, if you can:

Try the Catholicism, go to a church, and analyse it like you didn't knew a clue, like if you were... from other planet.

Most people don't no what was the conversation (monologue) about, they come out of the building, and they don't remember word of it. That's ...hum... tradition, not much religion.

Then people talk about it, and they mix it up who done what, who got married or killed by who, cause they simply never read the book with passion (or in a more comprehensive way)...

There is also a lot to do with what happened a long time ago. Never got the chance to know Jesus, but for what I read, it was a great person indeed! Obviously, I'm using simple thoughts...

But the book is a compilation. There's a lot to do of the author who chooses what is good to be in the bible, and what it's not good.

It´s seems to me absurd the last book, The Apocalypse, to be together with the other texts, since it was written quite late. Is just a quite negative way of thinking an end to mankind, when historically things were falling apart.

I'll get to the point.

Most people know The Apocalypse is a part of the bible, but they don't know it is attached to the invading hordes, and the beginning of the dark age.

Everything in the book is fascinating, if you look at it through history. But shouldn't people read it precisely that way? It's like talking about Anne Frank, her goodness, her acts, without knowing the all historical Nazi madness at the time! Most people read (and focus) about saints, Messiahs, miracles. And forget about the real deal, people, history, example of life, society.

Religion is a road. Abstract the road, and expand your mind. Feel free to think, by yourself. I don't understand if threes any motive to be afraid off, by making questions, and try to find answers. Religion it's not a club or a tradition to maintain.

My best friends are deeply religious, not the stupid fundamentalist type, but the ones who use their brain to reinforce their own beliefs. And is so interesting to see so much in common.

I said I'm atheist. But I limited the topic to an irreligious way of thought. It's quite a long subject...