My
Thoughts on Religion
Ever
since I was a child my mother would take me to church and being catholic she
was extremely religious and wanted to learn that I should attend mass every
Sunday, so I was forced to go against my will because at my young age I couldn't think for myself. Now that I've grown and seen almost everything there is to
religion I've made up my own opinion about how I see religion and I decided
that I want nothing to do with it. My parents and others have often told me
that “Everybody has to believe in something” and I do believe in something,
that which being science because it provides cold hard facts but also because
it doesn't leave me wondering how someone came up with the answer or evidence that
it existed. In other words I think most people who are religious don’t know half
of the answers to what they’re following or preaching if they were to be asked the
origins of their religion.
From
my experience, people who I've met in and out of church seem like they have
split personality disorder; that or they’re just two faced, and in most cases
they are. One example of a person who acts so innocent and sweet at church is
my mother. She is extremely nice, friendly and greets everyone she recognizes
when she arrives. Now allow me to shed some light on this little act of hers
when she attends mass. At home my mother often complains to me for any little
thing that’s wrong, tries to find any little reason to start arguing and constantly
questioning me about everything after I arrive home from maybe being with my
dad or with a friend as if I was being interrogated. She attends mass every Sunday
and acts as if it purifies her yet her harsh attitude and bad habits don’t change.
Church to me seems like a large was of time that I could be using for something
else instead of listening to a pastor drone on and read a passage from the bible
that even just thinking about makes me want to go to sleep.
I believe
that you don’t need religion to have the same morals as one who worships a
religion because I’m sure that I don’t need a religion to tell me the news that
it’s illegal to murder another human being or that committing adultery is
immoral and wrong. Human beings have ethics and know what they should and shouldn't do (excluding the sociopaths who feel no remorse for the life of human beings). The reason I am so opposed to religion roots from when my mother always forced
me to attend mass every Sunday and as I grew older I also came to dread it and I
never paid attention to the pastor said no matter hard I tried I couldn't bring
myself to pay attention to anything said in church, only the announcements
right before mass was over which was how I could always tell it was almost
over. I knew that once I was unable to stand being at mass that it was not the
thing for me.
My mother also tried to
make me believe that if I didn't pray or attend mass that I would go to hell once I passed from this world which is probably the thing I never believed the
most because how could anyone know if heaven or hell really exists? It’s not
like anyone has been through hell and back that’s just a figure of speech and
nothing more. These are a few of my favorite quotes from one of the smartest
minds of our time that reinforce my opinion on this and its none other than
Stephen Hawking and here are his specific words "I regard the brain as a
computer which will stop working when its components fail.” In that quote talks
about the brain stopping inevitably just like a computer when its components
degrade and fail when the time comes for its end. “There is no heaven or
afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of
the dark.” There is a large amount of truth and evidence behind this statement
because no one likes to think about what happens in the afterlife. Mexican
people have Dia De Los Muertos their deceased people, we in the United States
show up to our family member’s or friend’s graves and leave flowers, balloons or
even food in some cases if people feel like really paying their respects and In
some parts of African they perform something that has to do with the religion
of voodoo and remove the preserved corpse out of the ground, have the body
stand there, dress it different and perform a few rituals then place the body
back in its tomb. People don’t want to admit it but they’re afraid of believing
that nothing will happen when they die and the world will move on without them.
It comforts people knowing that they will go somewhere special or will always
be remembered by their loved ones and live on in their hearts.
To put it nicely about religion
I believe that a person doesn't have to believe in anything as long as they
have their heart in the right place and were raised in a home where they were
always taught to do the right thing as a young child. I think that religion is
time consuming, pointless at times and that people twist the words of the bible
to make it convenient for them because could you imagine if we followed every
single thing the bible said? If we were to actually follow all of the rules
every church would act like the Westboro Baptist church who actively shame same
sex marriage, picket soldier’s funerals saying things like “Thank god for dead
soldiers” and “fags doom nations”. Ironically they’re the church that follows
the words of the bible than any other church.
