[NonIndigenous]

I see myself as atheist. I don't exactly hate other religions... but I do hate how some people interpret them and go all extreme, and that gets under my skin. Just like politics. It's caused a lot of grief and conflict, but has also brought people together.

But thinking about it logically... a religion is a belief in something, whatever it is. Everyone has got to believe in something, no? If you don't consider yourself religious so to speak, there might be the ideologies of a political party you believe in, or something or someone you aspire to be that you believe in, even if you have never personally met them (like god in a way). If you don't believe in anything you see or experience then you are delusional (unless we really do live in a matrix), same way that you would be delusional if you're fanatical about your beliefs/religion, they are both extremes.

I've known two types of religious people in my life. Crazed religious people... who would go church morning afternoon and evening if they could, and take everything in the bible literaly, and some who simply live by the values of christianity. There's a balance in everything. I've maintaned good friendships with many people that consider themselves religious, so long as it doesn't run their life entirely, that every choice they make they are paranoid about god hitting them with thunderbolts. And actually on average they can be pretty decent people.

People will always have some beliefs, and those of similar beliefs tend to stick around each other, bird of feather flock together... . So some of you may say if you could get rid of religion you would... but it simply doesn't make sense. It is illogical. It's human nature to have beliefs in something.

But is religion itself illogical? Anything we don't understand is by definition illogical to us, so there are a lot of illogical things out there. Science describes what we do fully understand, or at least strive to understand given proven facts, whilst religion tries to describe and explain the illogical side of things, things we don't fully understand. To put it simply, religion itself can't be illogical.

People didn't know how the world begun ages ago... so they said it was created in 7 days. We now know it wasn't created in 7 days, and there are several theories as to how exactly our planet came about, but the story has stuck around and it will. It's part of the culture and was created to explain something that wasn't understood few hundred years ago.

I could go on... this is an infinite topic but I really need to do other things now.