Like every internet nerd, I love to watch the youtube. You can find almost anything that can be caught by a camera on that site. As you may know it, Some peoples use youtube to express their art, emotion and also opinion in a subject they related with and that’s one reason why youtube is more colorful than a rainbow in Pee Wee Herman house.
So one day when I’m browsing in youtube, I found a spotlight video that quite provocative just from the title itself. The video is titled “why I hate religion, but love Jesus”. Geez, Sometime I’m really jealous with the western culture and their freedom to speak about almost anything while here when you speak out loud bout things like that there’s a big chance that an angry mobs from medieval time with pitch fork and torch could come to your house, burn your ass, then slice it to pieces as breakfast for dogs. At first I didn’t watch the video because I am to busy watching another lesbian vid…I meant quantum and relativity theory video.
After 2 days has passed, I found that the video has been watched by 13 million viewers. It makes me wonder how could that video became very popular? So I checked it myself to make sure that there’s no hidden sex scene or LOL cat inside. After I finished watching it, a big question mark pop up right above my head, why did a lot of peoples hates religion?
That video is not the only proof that show how religion is hated by bunch of peoples his day. You can also find articles and blogs that consisted with hatred for religion, which of course shows how the modern human thinks religion is the incarnation of Nazi somehow. There’s even some extremist who think that religion should be banished from the face of the earth so human race could live in peace.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a religious person nor an atheist. You can call my opinion in this subject as ‘out of the box’ since I am not a man who said that religion is the only way human can find salvation in this damned earth but I don’t hate religion like its a hideous brain disease like some atheist does either.
Most peoples who hate religion are someone who thinks that he/she is intellectual and yes, they are also mostly western. They believe in the power of reasoning and logic rather than what they said as zapping flashy magic of religion. They believe that in the past and present religion cause bunch of wars and make its follower failed to see reality with logic and reasoning, instead the religious person is told to believe in illusion of afterlife in heavens and hell. Well, that’s really is a harsh assumption to be fair.
From what I see, the religion that mostly peoples tend to talk about is the Christian and the Muslim. Both of this religion had a big number of followers in this world and contribute lot of influence in the history of mankind. About 30% of human population is Christian while 23% is Muslim. So I will mostly talk about how peoples see this two major religion for the most part.
Everyone in this world sure had its own way to see religion when they speak about it. How peoples define religion is a matter of assumption and perception so how peoples see religions is mostly affected by their own life experience. Some people had a good time with religion, some others don’t.
I myself, used to be a religious person so I know how it feels to be a religious man, it wasn’t makes me evil and stupid like the so called intellectual atheist said. Yes it’s true that the Christian in the past kills a lot of peoples just to keep the church in control and it’s true that the Muslim terrorist had killed thousand of peoples for a reason that only Hitler may agree himself. But the question is it religion that caused all that? Short answer no, and if you think it was religion that caused all of that, the long answer is noooooooooooo you hateful short minded childish retard!
Why did I think that religion isn’t evil? Take this as an example, do you think that a machete is evil? Of course it wasn’t! machete becomes evil only if Jason Vorhees is the one using it as a tools do decapitate those annoying teenager in Friday the 13th. Well, maybe Jason with his machete wasn’t so evil since he really decapitate them with sheer of awesomeness but the point that I want to say is machete don’t kill people, its Jason that killed peoples. Religion doesn’t kill peoples, its peoples that kill people.
too bad he didn't start any religion...yet.
Religion is a tool that human used to seek for the meaning of life and the truth behind the universe, religion is what peoples used to socialize as a part of their personal identity and religion is what peoples used to seek for power. People have faith in religion because they need it in their life, not because they are stupid, they need it like the way Bob Marley needs his weeds to makes songs and if you just took the weed from bob Marley by force, I’m sure he’ll be nothing more than a man with a creepy dreadlock.
It’s stupid to say that all religion is evil and all of it is a method to turn human into mindless zombie. Although religion has started a lot of war that killed thousands peoples, religion also saves million of peoples in the world to find meanings and happiness around the world. Religions also helps people to teach them about the way of life, helping each other, and probably other good moral stuff that you may also find in the Saturday morning cartoon.
I live in a country where the people are quite religious. Here, the majority of the Indonesian peoples are muslim or at least that’s what written in their id card and contrary to what the western thinks especially that hateful Americans, they didn’t go to the mall or crowded place with a C4 strapped in their body. Also, the woman didn’t always dress like ninja ready to assassinate somebody from the dark.
definitely not a muslim woman
I’m not going to say that religion is all good and innocent like kindergarten kid with a big cute shiny eyes. Religion can be suck too especially if it were used by bunch of power hungry maniac. At the past Peoples use religion as the justification to did some unnecessary holocaust (thought I think they did a great job in controlling the human populations), that’s a glaring cruel fact that you can’t miss even if you are blind. Also, If you ever watched book of Eli, the whole ‘fallout wannabe’ world is caused by a war triggered by the conflict between religion around the world. All the bible and religious scripture burned down to ash since they think religion is the one to starting the war and that movie could be our future peoples.
There’s even a great line that can sum up my negative opinion about religion. At some point, the good ol’ Garry Oldman said that the bible, or religion as I assume here, is a weapon that we can use to manipulate humans heart. That statement is so true, religion can be a weapon and it have been used for maybe hundred or thousands year to manipulate human to do crazy things, even until now it can still be used as that.
I understand that peoples would do anything they can to protect on what they believe and love, even if it means you had to stick dynamite in your anus so whatever that you believe and love will be save. The same case goes to the religious persons because they will protect their faith no matter what happened. They love their faith like the way you love your mom (assuming your mom didn’t have drinking problem and beat you with her beer bottle).
Whether if you think that religion is good or evil there’s something that you shouldn’t forget. Hatred will breed more hatred and it will bring us to war so if you don’t want your future ended up like fallout and book of eli, start accepting others believes so others will accept what you believe too. I believe that what the worlds need now is an acceptance and appreciation for everything that we think is different because it is a way for humans to evolve into a better living being.
