Monday, 19 March 2012

Religion


I don't define myself through any beliefs but why do other people feel the need to tell you about theirs? as if converting me is going to bring them some sort of satisfaction? Jehovah's witnesses for example. Coming to tell us about your religion is all very well and good but what happens if I were to just say yeah OK, I'm sold, sign me up! What happens then? ..the short answer they'd just explode on your doorstep. I attended an Islamophobia conference recently and watched 8 religious people sit and argue about something that i wasn't really bothered about. My point is, if everyone kept their religious views in their head rather than feeling the need to shout it about, the world would be a nicer place. We probably wouldn't be having the wars in different countries. We wouldn't have had to live through the tragedies of 9/11 and the 7/7 train bombings. People wouldn't have these tiny little insignificant squabbles with each other about whether there is or isn't a god? or what this god has told them to do? Or how he's trying to make the world a better place. I mean if it wasn't for beliefs a lot of famous religious leaders would have lived long happy lives.. and probably wouldn't have been famous for that matter. Martin Luther King? Saddam Hussain? Jesus? all just dwelling in their own homes, comfortable that they know what they believe and not caring what others think. It seems to me people needing to express their beliefs is actually making this world a worse place. I hope it's not just me but can't people be happy within themselves about their beliefs and not have to destroy the world in an attempt to prove that they might or might not be right because we are never going to know.

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