Religion Rant!

So, as pretty much everyone already knows, I'm an atheist. I never really believed there was a god of any sort as a child, and for most of childhood pretended to be a full-on Christian but felt like I was still indecisive and that the religion itself was very unbelievable. I believe there could be some sort of deity or powerful force that rules over everything and/or had a hand in creating the universe, but I also think that humans would never be able to actually fully grasp the concept of such a powerful deity and worshiping it certainly does jack shit other than waste your time. So, that being the case, I do not believe in religion whatsoever.

Now let's start from the beginning. I think the worst part about religion has got to be the fact that parents use their children. Right from the beginning people shove their children into their religion and reprimand them and/or get all upset if they stray from the path or pick up a new religion altogether. They don't give the kid a choice; rather, they take advantage of a kid's vulnerability and programmability and hard-wire in the religion. They don't teach the kid any other options, and then the kid goes out into the world speaking like the religion is fact, and the kid ends up hating on other religions and being unaware that their own religion is just a belief and is not necessarily true. It's kinda sad when an otherwise smart kid starts talking about religion and treats someone like me like a piece of dirt because I don't follow their religion. It's like they think they automatically have power and status over me because they worship something that's more powerful than anything ever, and I'm somehow being disrespectful by not worshiping him. And what I hate above all else...when people think I should actually give a shit about the rules in the Bible, and when people tell me that it's offensive to them to see me do homosexual things and that as long as I don't actually act on it they're okay with it...yeah, I'm GAY, I'm not going to settle down with a WOMAN because I'm NOT ATTRACTED to them in that way AT ALL, and I'm certainly not going to be a fucking loner because YOU can't seem to accept that PEOPLE ARE ALL DIFFERENT and just because you CAN'T UNDERSTAND those differences doesn't mean they're automatically BAD.

People seem to hide behind religion like a security blanket. Gays are confusing and you can't understand them? Why not hate on them and then hide behind your religion and mark anything they say as a retort as "offensive" and "rude"? Well guess what: gays can't just ignore their sexual feelings, just like how straight people can't ignore their feelings. COMMON SENSE PEOPLE. Why do you think we have so many predators? Why do you think people get raped? Not because people are disrespectful, it's because their judgement is clouded by pure sexual want. And I'm sure even if they could ignore it, they'd definitely be ignoring it for the likes of you self righteous scumbags, simply because you find it offensive. /sarcasm

And then there's a simple fact that people use religion as a security blanket. Whenever something goes wrong, they turn to the blanket to make things better, and whenever somebody challenges them, they thrust their blanket forward and hide behind it. People simply don't like the image of having nobody looking out for them or the image of having nothing before and after life. They fear the idea of simply popping out of existence, wanting nothing more than to continue on living in a paradise after they finish life. They don't like the idea of getting no reward at the end of the terrible life that they've forced themselves to, so they developed religion to give them hope of something else after their dull lives finish, and to give them hope that somebody loves them infinitely and always forgives them. Seems kinda...childish.

That kinda got off topic, but oh well. If anyone can salvage something that resembles an opinion somewhere in there, feel free to agree with or combat against it in the comments below. This isn't my entire opinion, I just posted what was bugging me the most about it all right now. I generally don't memorize what I don't like about things. :P