I grew up sitting in the first row seats of every church my parents pastored. I was a firm believer. I believed with all my passion and all my thoughts.
When I was in my early 20s I had to think outside the box for several debate topics in school. I had to pretend to think differently for the case of my assignments. This opened up my mind a little bit. I had already read the Bible twice from start to finish before, but I started if again. This time, some things didn’t click. Why was this god so awful to women? Why did he love killing so much? What kind of fucked up laws were these? What’s the point of killing himself as sacrifice to himself? None of it made sense until I started wondering if maybe the people who wrote this were basing it all on their own ideas. I mean... we’re blindly accepting as fact stories that people wrote decades after things happened, and then they copied them by hand, and again, and again, and then they were translated again and again. And we just take it like, “Yes, I do.” Why? This same reaction to anything else would be considered insanity. Accepting the Bible as truth just because it says it’s the truth is in fact insanity. If we had grown up where our friend Atlas grew up, we wouldn’t be a Christian. Christians are just lucky to have been raised in the one true religion? Sorry, but no. The more I read the more I realized I had wasted years on a fairy tale and there was no way I could continue that way.
When I was in my early 20s I had to think outside the box for several debate topics in school. I had to pretend to think differently for the case of my assignments. This opened up my mind a little bit. I had already read the Bible twice from start to finish before, but I started if again. This time, some things didn’t click. Why was this god so awful to women? Why did he love killing so much? What kind of fucked up laws were these? What’s the point of killing himself as sacrifice to himself? None of it made sense until I started wondering if maybe the people who wrote this were basing it all on their own ideas. I mean... we’re blindly accepting as fact stories that people wrote decades after things happened, and then they copied them by hand, and again, and again, and then they were translated again and again. And we just take it like, “Yes, I do.” Why? This same reaction to anything else would be considered insanity. Accepting the Bible as truth just because it says it’s the truth is in fact insanity. If we had grown up where our friend Atlas grew up, we wouldn’t be a Christian. Christians are just lucky to have been raised in the one true religion? Sorry, but no. The more I read the more I realized I had wasted years on a fairy tale and there was no way I could continue that way.
"Hipster is what happens when young hot people do what old ladies do." -Exian
