Flashes.

[WinterHold]

Religion is how one should deal with life. Everybody person has a code to live; let it be human experience documented through the ages or a book claimed to be of non-human origin.

Religion is just the book of law against this life, it's a protective shield against the bad of this world. 

Since religion only seemed to make my life worse, I'll deal with the shit of life much better without it.

Expectations were the problem; not religions itself, I bet you not.
God will not come down of heaven riding a golden calf to wipe the tears of your sad week, angles would also not come flying to scare your enemies.

So the disaster happens. One thinks that a day or two in obedience to what the deity said, would rain flowers from the sky. But that doesn't happen. Instead, a bigger disaster might come. Religion then becomes a tag-team with misery.

God is merciful. But he created pain itself. He's not a Zues or a Gaia. He is God. Religion can be hard. Especially if dicks hijacked it through Islamic and Christian and Jewish medieval churches; religious cartels.

It's all about patience. It takes lots to learn that. But thank God, life isn't eternal.