Living in society is complicated and confusing for a young man. Growing up, I saw a country that openly preached equality and the rights that were entitled when our founding fathers decreed it. However, discoveries are made as my maturity grew. I lived a life walking down Main street with the ideas of freedom shining on my face but in the back alleys, hate flourishes underneath our proud and glorious nation.

When our country was young, and but thirteen to-be states settled on the eastern coast, our founding fathers wrote the basic rights now preserved in our Constitution. These words still ring loud and clear through the media and in school. It took me a while to see the civil unrest growing surely and quietly beneath the surface. But it was there.

It was there in the media in provocative debate shows. It was there on the streets where Jehova witnesses roam. And it was there on the Internet. And it had its own category on Yahoo. Anti-gay/homosexual, Anti-Jew/Muslim, Anti-liberal/freedom. Scores of articles, videos, and endless mind-numbing chatter of how Christians are repressed. The most bloody and militaristic religion shaming our human race shouting their repression. What words can they use to argue an unarguable argument?

I am faithful to my God but misinterpretations of the Bible has caused me leave a corrupted empire still clinging to its religious power from the days of yore. My doubting started the day I was converted at a young impressionable age. I started realizing that logic and morality dictates differently from the thing the Bible leads me to do but yet, preachers convinced me that one must not question and be faithful. I sacrificed logic and morality for faith. And faithful and ignorant I remained until the violent turn of the century, or to be more specific: September 11th, 2001 another day that will live in infamy. There I stood, watching deaths by the thousands. Deaths of completely innocent lives, prematurely removed from this existence for naught. Why, I say?

Al Queda, the terrorist organization under the leadership of Osama Bin Laden, harbored in the purely Islamic state of Afghanistan. Their hate stem from one thing. Clash of religion. Their misguided acts of destruction proclaimed "In the name of God we do this!". God or no god, afterlife or none, our world has been mortally wounded. Why live in a world with death and destruction caused by religion so that we can "ascend" to eternal bliss? If there were no religions, we would already be there.

Some might say, "These violent acts do not speak on behalf of religion. A true religious man offers help to all, and unforgiveness to none" If this were only true, mortal men need not religion. For all men should do this, not just hypocritcal religious storytellers. If anything, the terrorist acts made me more faithful. It was my own Christian brethen that caused the turnaround.

During this eventful time, I could not look any longer at the pain and suffering religion caused. I turn my head. And in my own country, I see the Christians crawling from their underground sewers to seize this oppurtunity.

Their drive to use international violence as a reason for their blind cause insulted my beliefs, both personal and religious. At this heart-breaking time, they shout on television, they shout on the internet, it is YOU who caused this. You, the gay/homosexuals, You, the whole Muslim race, and You the non-believers. Any reasoning behind their arguments? yes. Any logical reasonings? no. See with your own eyes.

One of many exapmples from: www.touchoffire.com, an article sent to me by a person who actually believed this farce:

Then, someone said you better not read the Bible in school... the Bible that says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said, OK.

The second comment of a series of constant bicker about our media and our education how it "pushed" God out of our lives. We take him out of our schools, we let women save their lives by abortion, we prevent child abuse, and start gun control. All this is pushing God out of our lives. Apparently, God's out for revenge, and he took it out on America. If "He" did exist, he must be quite a guy to hide behind the childhood excuse of, "You hurt me, I'll hurt you back by killing you."

Think about it. Assume he does not exist, everything in this world would be just the way it is. Assume He does exist, there would be no Holocaust, no bloody crusades, no Sept.11th, no religious acts of violence in Mississippi. Yet there are? Where is He now? He's where he's always been. In our imagination. Now for one moment there, imagine the world's utopia.

No religion. Peace and harmony, people working together in light of any background one must have. All wars, jihads would of been cut to nearly none. There truly would be no Holocaust, no bloody crusades and no planes crashing and burning. And Mississippi would be a half decent state. Hell, maybe Republicans and their Tobacco buddies will start getting rid of their addictive product and start trying to balance the economy. Back in reality, there is religion. There is violence. There is death. And most of all, there is no Christian afterlife. Of the the three worlds of non-beliefs, beliefs, and utopia, I'd choose Utopia any day. But if possible I would settle for non-beliefs, where at least people wouldn't mass slaughter.

Sadly, the worst of the three is reality. Gladly, when I die, I won't care where I'll go. All I know is that its heaven to me, to leave this unholy planet ruled by these ungodly creatures.

At least when I get to the afterlife, when God pushes me, I'll be able to push back.

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