Awakening
Today I realized that its going to be a long hard road to find someone who respects the fact that I don’t believe in religion…I just don’t! I NEVER have…its always seemed like people have the hardest time accepting the fact that I truly think religion is BS…all religion, not just one or the other….this morning I had the largest fight with my now ex girlfriend over religion…she’s a Christian and always tries to put me in the Muslim box because my parents are Muslims…I’m NOT a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddist, a Hindi or anything else…I respect when people truly are dedicated to whatever they believe in…but I also feel like people just want to belong so badly they latch on to anything including religion…I mean no disrespect to any religious folks but just as u believe what you believe, I believe what I believe! Why is it that your beliefs are valid but mine aren’t! I feel like I’ve been having this fight for almost half of my life…with my mother, classmates and now my ex girlfriend…wtf? I guess I’m the asshole for not believing in Christ on Easter and not altering my opininion on this day…but honestly I truly don’t care!
In my younger years I used to hide under the “I’m Muslim” mask to validate my attitude about the issue of religion…but now I feel no shame at all when I say I don’t believe in religion! Nore do “Holy Books” mean more to me than the books I have on beauty…they are in my eyes no different from any other NY Times best seller…if the need to downside came about they would prob get trashed way before some books of Poetry… and that’s the honest truth…the ones that I do have came from my parents…a Quran a gift from my mother that I’ve never read a line of and a Bible from my father’s things left in his place after he died… these books have no meaning to me other than what I explained eariler…
At this point I’m truly just venting about my pointless fight this morning over something I could care less about…Religion!!! Ahhhhhh! But whatever…better we end now that waste anymore of my time only to break up over something as pointless as religion….
I can soooooooooooooooo relate to this post. I don’t believe in religion period at all. I agree exactly with what you said about folks belonging. Have the folk to that claim to be religious (most are just hypocrites anyway)but, they only hang on to their religion because of fear. What type of fucking way is that to live? I’m not gonna claim something or pretend that I believe in something because I’m scared of what’s going to happen when I die…Anywho religion is nothing but, a control mechanism and a huge divider. The reason why the world has so many problems now is because of religion! Countries fight. For what? Over religion…Folks hate on other folks…Why? because of religion or they think their religion is better or because they feel they are justified because some stupid holy book told them that something is wrong…ok now I’m ranting. I’m done.
I feel you on this completely, though my perspective is kind of different. I don’t believe that religion is necessary for everyone. I have a fulfilling relationship with God that doesn’t include religion whatsoever. It bugs me when folks behave as though people can’t create their own paths to God or spiritual peace. It goes against their own beliefs. If God gave Free Will, wouldn’t that include the choice to practice (or not practice) spirituality as we please?
Awwww G! & Robs! Yall feel my pain! Its a very touchy subject for sooo many people…when I say I don’t believe in religion people gasp and clutch their pearls…as if to show some sort of disdain for me! And pitty for my poor soul… I’m free…I know my creator loves me as is…baby! Lol