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.