The Truth For Youth

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Originally Posted by TrialSword

At work the other day, this woman wouldn't leave until she'd told me not to "leave earth without a good bible," and shake the hands of everyone around her.

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:wtf: Yikes...what a psycho!

Sorry about the wierd rant, I think it was mainly inspired because my grandparents are staying and I realized, if I told them I was Agnostic, they'd probably never want to speak to me again, and that just pisses me off how many Christian families I know that if someone doesn't follow along with the belief, the family crumbles :/.

And I never knew exactly what Mormon's were about, or anything about the Church of Latter Day Saints.

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Originally Posted by rezo

Yeah, I know some people that are calling the hurricanes "judgements". It's bothersome only because they think it's a perfectly ok thing to happen because of that.

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I guess the people around me forgot the poverty, tornadoes, and flooding that Mississippi gets.

I wonder what the bible beaters did wrong for all of that to happen? :noob:

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Originally Posted by Thief~Silver

And Christians know of this and accept it?

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no, just crazy people.

"guess what people, jesus came to the US right after his death and spread his word to the Indians. And if you are wonder why there is no record of this with any indian tribe, it is becuase the indians that Jesus talked to all died out, leaving no record at all =D =D =D "

Yeah right.

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Originally Posted by Thief~Silver

Sorry about the wierd rant, I think it was mainly inspired because my grandparents are staying and I realized, if I told them I was Agnostic, they'd probably never want to speak to me again, and that just pisses me off how many Christian families I know that if someone doesn't follow along with the belief, the family crumbles :/.

And I never knew exactly what Mormon's were about, or anything about the Church of Latter Day Saints.

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Your grandparents are assholes if they won't stick by you and try to at least change your mind through love. Casting someone out of your life for not having faith is a horrible, horrible thing to do.

I think it's moreso me being afraid of them hating me because I've seen it happen often. I actually kinda feel that they wouldn't care but my parent's reaction when I thought of telling my grandparents was less than soothing.

And as for my rant, I take every part of it concerning Christianity itself out of it. I have never read the bible, my conclusions are all drawn from other people's interpretations of this religion. I do not care ot read the bible, I'm lazy and I guess don't care enough about it, therefore I feel I should not even talk about christianity, it's moreso just people in all. I'm no longer going to think "There is a person who is a christian, there is a good chance they hate homosexuals and want to convert the world" they're just people, with a belief I do not share.

One day, if I read the bible, I'll make some judgements and decisions regarding Christianity, I've hated the religion a lot lately, but looking at it, even if I don't believe in that god, I know nothing about him and have judged him based on how his followers act. I haven't even given him a chance, and so, I'm just gonna keep my comments centered on the actions of the people, and not the religion itself.

Remember this fact:

People are idiots.

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Originally Posted by James

I don't understand religion. I went to church every Sunday for 18 years and I still don't understand religion. My mom is active in her church and my sister converted to Jewishnessess ... ess, and I still don't get religion. The reasoning behind it is completely alien to my brain.

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A lot of the draw to religion, I reckon, is the tradition. There's a natural human attachment to tradition - the desire to be a part of something that makes us feel connected to society and humanity. It can be big things, like religion, or it can be little things, like your family setting the Christmas tree up on the day after Thanksgiving. With religion, you suddenly have these customs and traditions that go back thousands of years, and it makes you feel like you are part of a bigger whole. If something has been done for thousands or hundreds of year, then if I do it too, it connects me to those people in the past, and maybe I feel like a piece of me will live on in future people just like a piece of the people who did those same things in the past now lives on when I do them.

Of course, religion is also about finding meaning in life, and not being afraid of death because of the believe that something more is beyond the life we can see. I'm not the largest fan of religion when it comes to the negative aspects, such as trying to convert people who didn't ask to be converted, and things like holy wars. I do very much like the tradition and history of religion, though; and even if it is all a lie, there is no God, and we just rot in the ground when we die, I think there's nothing wrong with people believing in it and feeling better about things, and I don't support non-believers calling them stupid for doing so.