Religion

Religion.

It's a topic that drives me insane.

I am atheist, through and through.
I believe in no God.

But religion...
whenever it's mentioned, I feel anger swelling in my chest.

At what?

I have no problem with religious people. All my friends are religious, and I love them.
So what's the problem?

I think it's that people allow themselves to be swayed so easily.
They read the bible, or whatever holy book, and now they believe everything in it.
Or they go to church, or perhaps listen to the pope, and they do whatever the church says.



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They don't think for themselves! As a logical person, this drives me 
I mean, think about it. Look at the bible. It's filled with unbelievable stories, yet people believe it.
'Cause it's the bible. It's holy.
So if thousands of years ago, I wrote a book about how aliens are dieties and how we should worship them, you would
 believe me? You would worship aliens?

That's a word that bugs me. Worship. I refuse to bow down to anyone. I'm a free person.
 I worship NO ONE. God does not deserve to be worshiped.
He does more harm than good.

Sure, there are good morals in the bible.
 But look how many people were killed for that same bible?
You're saying our "loving" God wants to kill people? I disagree, a real God wouldn't let people kill in His name.

And don't feed me that "we don't always know why God does these things" line. I won't take that crap.


Maybe what's bothering me is religion's air of superiority.
I hate the religions or the people that say that since I don't believe, I need to repent, or go to hell.
I dislike the people who say that even though I don't believe, God still loves me.
I DON'T want God to love me.
I don't believe in God.

I don't understand it! I don't hate religion, and I want to be tolerant of it, even while I'm not religious.

But I'm not!

How do I change this?
It's an internal struggle every time someone brings religion (or politics, different story) up in the conversation.

Help.