When I was younger I went to church every Sunday and got told "the way that it is." Around my sixth grade my family stopped attending church. I still advocated religion until about my freshman year in high school. I took a step back and actually analyzed the way that people are and the teachings of bible, I realized that neither went hand in hand. People such as my friend are ignorant to other religions, he denounced Buddhism in Calculus one day. I mocked him because Buddhism is not a religion. One day my mother coerced me to go to church one day and low and behold the preacher was denouncing Buddhism 9once again not even a religion although he referred to it as being one). People in their ignorance say one thing and do another, in other words they preach without practice. That is the one thing I cannot stand and try my hardest to avoid doing it, that and lying; because lying doesn't help any and always screws over a non-related third party. People take the Bible and what it says way to seriously but it is nothing more than an allegory. And whomever wrote it is quite an intelligent person(s). It is the idea that it works to show that man is wicked, deceitful, a liar, two-faced, and overall evil. But it also shows that man is compassionate, kind, loving, and for the most part honest. Sure we have our flaws but we're human. As for people that take the teaching of the Bible seriously I believe they follow it's word out of fear. Fear of not knowing (of all things). It's okay to have faith but put it in yourself and not in some book. The only things Christians have on us is that the events occurred in the past. None of were so we cannot say what is and what is not say. Was there a man called Jesus who spread the word of God? Probably. Did he walk on water, make the blind see, and cure lepers? Probably Not. As for a higher creator I cannot say it is impossible. To say that man occurred from a random series of events that just so happened to create a species that would eventually evolve into man is putting a little too much faith in science. But to be ignorant about it, that's just unnecessary. Seriously religious zealots need to be and leave be alone (live and let live).
The more questions we ask, the less answers we'll have.
