Sunday, July 20, 2014

Am I religious?

I believe in Allah, God, Supreme Being, or whatever you want to call him. After going to churches and mosque and being around religious groups of people. I strongly feel that I am not religious but I am spiritual. This means I believe in God but I do not identify with a religion.
I do my best to live by the golden rule: treat others how you want to be treated. I sometimes let anger get the best of me because I don't like being disrespected. So I end up treating others how I feel they should be treated instead. I'm a work in progress.
I just get tired of the bullshit that comes with being apart of a religious group of people. The constant judgement is ludicrous to me. How can you say your a Christian or a Muslim and treat people with no respect because they are different than you? If you are indeed this religious persona and your god is a forgiving god, why are you trying to punish someone for being who they are?
I am accepting of others but I am not accepting of people who pretend to be something they are not. I feel like that is most Christians and Muslims. They just follow what people tell them, they don't actually take the time to study their religion.
I met a lot of Muslim girls in college who claim that they were born Muslim but they don't know the five pillars of Islam and they don't practice the religion. They were more interested in marriage before they were 30.
To me it was just pathetic. I was not born into the religion. I chose it and I knew more about the religion than they did. It sickened me. The more I hung out with these girls the more I realized that they mistaken their culture for their religion. Just because your family is from an "Islamic" country doesn't mean it's an Islamic country.
All of this made me denounce Islam and turn to Christianity only to find out the Christians were that same. They are more deceitful in my experience. They act in kind and loving and once they get you to convert they trash talk about Islam and criticize you for not being theatrical enough for God. lol.
Religion to me is a big circus and the main attraction is the promise of getting close to God. A scam.
I feel like God has given us a free will for a reason. Not to be taken advantage of by capitalism.
Living here in America has made be feel that everything in the world has to do with capitalism because entities of power do stupid shit.
If people are naturally good then why do we cheer when bad things happen to people but are uninterested or hateful when good things happen to people? I feel this is because of religious groups who are after power and money. I don't want to be apart of anything like that.
I am not religious at all but I am spiritual. I want whoever I end up with to be spiritual. I want my kids to grow up understanding that religion is just another organized group spreading hate and judgement on the world. I don't hate people of any religion I just don't believe in it. I believe there are good people everywhere, but there are more bad than good people that belong to religious organizations.