AsnFkr's Journal: Born Again Prick-A-Saurus

The problem I have with religion isn't the Jebus. It's not the silly myths. It's not the fact that zillions of people have been slaughtered over it. It's not the hatred sponsored by churches over thousands of years. It's not the fact that people use "the name of god" to justify evil actions to each other. It's not the fact that people spend their entire lives acting like they aren't horrible just to impress their "all knowing" god. (If he's all knowing what good does it do to lie, fuckers?) It's not the fact that people are so arrogant they can possibly think their religion is the right one, just because it was the one their parents fucked down their throats. The real problem I have with religion is in order to have faith in a specific god you have to have faith in other people. People who documented your particular saviors actions. People who translated those works into a current language. People who copied it into new editions and versions. This is literally millions of hands the "authentic" scripture has passed through. Hands of people from different times. People with different agendas and inspirations. People with all sorts of different reasons to lie in documentation to make their lives better. To make their own name immortal. To make small changes they think don't matter. To make big changes they think do matter. People that don't mean to make changes but are stupid and make poor interpretations of others wittings. People that are smart and do the same thing. The fact that there have obviously been corrupt people in the church (as there are in everything), believing that an evil hand has never had it's digits bend the word of god for it's own good is an asinine assumption. If you don't believe people are lying cunts you've never worked in retail. Or gone to church.

Ever play a game of "Telephone" when you were a little kid? Imagine doing that, but in 40 different languages, and over 2000 years. And with a sentence 3,000 pages long. Now send it through power hungry insane tyrants who lived in something called "The Dark Ages". Seriously people, how the crap could *anyone* believe the outcome? Most of the people involved were less educated than the little kids playing Telephone, and remember how badly just one sentence got fucked up in 3 minutes?

I'm not creating a misappropriation about faith in a higher being. I'm not arguing there is or is not a "god" of some sort. Not this time anyways. What I can't believe is people actually get up and go to church, pumping hard earned cash into a strangers hands for him to read to you out of a book that is just obviously loosely (and I use that term loosely) based on fact. I would rather spend my money on the Jurassic Park trilogy. It's on DvD you know. And then I could buy a 5.1 audio system, and it would sound like dinosaurs were stomping through my house. And it's probably more likely that a real dinosaur would stomp through my living room than it is for Jesus to untack himself from his cross and come make me some Berrytastic-Blue Cool-Aid, despite what your read in your funny little book.