Thoughts on Religion

http://mentallyincontinent.com/article742.html

http://joethepeacock.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-rick-santorum-scares-absolute-shit.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogger%2FxBUC+%28The+Journal+of+Joe+The+Peacock.+Yay.%29

those two links are by the same guy, Joe Peacock.  They both talk about why today's religious folks fanaticism is highly disturbing.  I simply invite you to read and think about what is said.

Depression

I'm falling into depression agian, and it pisses me off.  I don't want to be depressed, but I can't take anti-depressants because it interferes with my other medicines, and I can't afford therapy.  I don't know why I'm falling again, which makes it hard to tell her and help her understand why I'm so down all the time. 

I mean, it could have something to do with the fact that I do everything I can to make her happy, yet when it comes to being romantic/intimate, she wants nothing to do with me.  This just makes me feel unloved/unwanted/fat and ugly.  I feel like, no matter what I do, it will never be enough.

But then there is the non-depressed/sane/logical side of me that knows that she loves me, that she does want me in her life, and that I'm not fat and ugly (or at least not the fat part).  Sadly, that part of me gets drowned out, a lot.

I guess another thing could be the fact that I don't really have time for fun or recreational activities this semester, I'm basically going from 9am til 10pm every single day, and then I still have homework to do on top of all that.  And on top of all that, even if I could have a social life, its not like I have any friends in the area.

Work is being a bitch as well, I'm getting my hours cut horribly, as is everyone else I work with, making it so that twice a week, I'm the only person closing for the sales floor, which makes it impossible to get any work done.

I just need a few weeks away from it all.  Sadly, It probably wont happen.

Lent

Lent is a time where people often give something up, whether they are religious or not.  Its usually something like meat, or pop, or smoking, something trivial like that.  The claim is that it will make them a "better person" and/or "bring them closer to God".

Well, here's the thing.  Giving something up for Lent represents Christ's 40 days in the wilderness being tempted by Satan.  The sacrifice we make represents the temptation, the temptation to do something we shouldn't.

This year, as I've done every year for the past 5 years or so, I'm giving up religion.  My reasoning for this is as such:  Christianity is full of crazy ass nut jobs who believe that their religion is the only "true" religion.  If this is true, then why is it that Jesus was a Jew, and that the Jew's are God's "chosen people?"  Its because a long time ago someone decided to say "Stupid Jews, that man really was the savior, so we are going to worship him."

Now, don't get me wrong, Christianity isnt the only religion to have crazy ass nut jobs, every religion has them.  Its just that, being from America, Christianity is the most prominent religion, so its the one that I bash on the most.

If you want to be a true Christian this year, don't give up meat, or sex, or drugs, or anything material at all.  Give up your religion, and see the world through the eyes of an Atheist or Agnostic.  They, no, we see the world how it really is, a corrupt planet run by false idols and fat lazy kings, just as it has been since the beginning of history.  If we really want to make this world better, we must forgo the Church and realize that the only TRUE way into heaven (if it even really exists) is to love everyone unconditionally, be they Jew, Muslim, Black, White, Asian, Gay, Straight, Transgender, whatever.  Only then can we truly know what peace on Earth and true happiness are.