Losing my religion

Wow has it been really almost a month since my last post?

My bad.

Okay, this is not going to be as serious as a topic as the title would make you think. Not to mention in case some of you haven't looked it up on Wikipedia, the phrase "Losing my religion" does not mean exactly that. It's a southern expression for losing manners and/or your temper. Well I'm not going to blow my top but I do have a bone to pick with the religious folk.

Just yesterday, I was accosted by both a Christian and Jehovah's Witness preaching the gospel so to speak and thus making me extremely uncomfortable. I never know how to act around these people. I know they mean well and are just doing their jobs (a conversation with Romulus reminded me that part of Christianity is the missionary work thus preaching the gospel) but come on two in one day was ridiculous.

The JW even just assumed I had a bible to look up the 200 individual scriptures that were in the magazines she gave me. The arrogance. What it made it even worse was the women in question were older women. To be rude to them would of been like cussing out my grandmother.

Still, this kind of stuff annoys me. I REALLY don't like talking about religion (like some people hate talking about politics). I've only told a very few people what I believe (or don't). What I really don't believe in though in the institutions of religions. Now once again, I do think a lot of good people do great work in the churches and all but....

I mean come on. Really, the whole systems they are based on are eroding in the 21st century. The world is changing and they keep clinging to the same words and scriptures. That may seem be fine but all things must evolve; build upon these words and strengthen your religion than perhaps we'll talk. Not to mention, they use the words of such institutions to lash out to those that are different than them (i.e. the gay/lesbian community).

All of that drives me nuts. Many who claim to be religious do not live the same sphere of thought most of us do. They look to the good books, instead of their own free mind in order to make a decision about something. How about you act like a human being, listen to an issue, then make a decision with your own mind and not an inanimate book? Religion is a guide to a better life, not a tell all be all.

This is the very reason I hate guys like Rick Santorum. His stone age, bible bullshit will send the country back hundreds of years if he gets elected. He thinks more or less than women should stay in the kitchen and kids should all be home schooled, keeping their worlds as insular as possible. Guys like him have drunk the kool aid so deeply, they no longer have individual thought.

So what does all this ranting add up to? I don't know really. Just that some well intentioned, older women spoke of god and religion and made me so uncomfortable I almost want to quit my job so they will never stop by and bother me again. Seriously, people, stop bugging me at work, I'm trying to blog here.

Until next time, fly high and fly well