Is it normal to be this upset with religion?

FYI abortion isn't a religion

haha someone needs to learn how to read before they try to be a smartass he said abortion and other religions. Other religions besides their own, abortion is a seperate part of the statement. I actually just watched a video of a religious protest in Gainesville with these insane people saying "god hates America" and that there are only two types of people in America "fags and fag enablers" these are also the people who protest military funerals and say some of the most vile things I've ever heard but "they are above everyone else". I can understand being frustrated with people like this, but as long as they don't impose their views on others religion as a whole isn't bad.

Dude you can't just make things up about god. He gave us everything we need to now and everything is true in his word

I agree, I despise religion

I am feeling, and have been this way for quite some time now.

Totally

Yes, I am totally with you.

I completely agree with you. Religion sometimes angers me too. It can be so hypocritical, not religion itself but the followers of religion. It's always used to judge others and hold oneself in higher regards but when someone judges another and makes another feel bad that in itself is wrong. If there really is a god then he will do the final judgement and he can be the ultimate judge of all things. Judging others is not something we should do to others as we are all imperfect and have our vices. That's my biggest problem with religious followers. That and the fact that separation of church and state cannot exist with these right wing fundamentalists.

I too feel the same way. Raised Catholic, but later started questioning religion altogether. I'm somewhere in between an atheist and agnostic. I find alot of corruption/contradiction in religion, based on fear. Some state that if u do not believe in Jesus, ur going to hell. How is that? What about those places that do not receive the Christian word? They are automatically going to hell? The bible itself has many contradictions, including rules on how to treat ur slave. Seriously? How are we to believe in a God that says it's ok to have a slave?

I feel the same way, religon has caused all the wars I'm this world

I don't follow a religion, but I don't despise it. If you're surrounded by what you don't believe in it's no surprise you're so angry. You have to react somehow.

I work in a little country town of people that all think alike. They drive me crazy. There was a very unfortunate man that came into the hospital. He was an alcoholic that was pretty awful during recovery from a large abcess in his lung. They hated him. I was nice to him and told those "lip service Christians" to step up to the plate and show him that someone cared about him. By the time I finished, Christians were getting to know him. They took groceries to his house and I made arrangements for him to have the rest of his teeth pulled. It would have NEVER occurred to those religious people to extend any kindness. Then I told them it was the difference in "talking" God and "doing" God.

Thats not being angry with religion. Thats being angry with the people pushing religion onto people and fanatics

It's perfectly normal, but maybe just not desirable for your own sanity. But perfectly normal.

YES, IT IS.

I'm studying to be an atheist, right now. Literally, studying. At school.

For relatively some of the same reasons as you. Maybe people weren't as 'in-my-face' about it, but still.

I'm a Christian, but I have to admit I don't agree with a lot of the things the church says, and a lot of things written in the bible.

I would become an expert at arguing with faithful people in a civil manner. Learn about some of the effed-up stuff in the bible (human sacrifice, genocide,sexism) as well as the admirable passages. Study up until you have a perfectly tuned comeback for any argument they throw at you, and never lose your cool (let them do that). It is amazingly satisfying. Sam Harris's The End of Faith is a good starting point.

If people would just stop putting down what others believe we could all just get along

You can love God without being religious.

"religion" has nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus. Try to live a just life and help others. Forget the rest of that crap.

If u haven't seen Religulous, I suggest u watch it. It brings to the surface how messed up Religion is, and proves that it's just basically a crock. Religion is a terrible form of brainwashing. God is about as real as the tooth fairy if you ask me!

Of course, judgement isn't up to
Christians. At least not in the way that you are expressing. Jesus adopted a sinner as one of his apposles. Do you believe
That he wanted us to go out and yell, curse, and condem those who live
Their lives a certain way? Answer that question truthfully. Love thy neighbor... Only true acts of living a virtuous live will persuade those who fill life with hate or suffrage. In irony Some Christians are leading a life full of hate and resentment when they are the ones who live a broken life because they follow knowledge of which the bible does not tell of. Of which the bible never speaks of. But yet they proceed in ways that are only in-justifying what they believe to be true.

FYI DANARUTH14...they never said abortion was a reigion.

I don't understand atheists because say god doesn't exist (he does though) nothing would happen to the Christian or the atheist, but since he does exist the Christian will go to heaven and the atheist will go to hell.

He did mention the part of fundamentalists trying to make unpassed congressional laws on all their followers bodys and even those who want nothing to do with them.

I believe you are normal pal, but I'm an atheist as well.

I chose yes because I understand how you feel. However, I think the reason you feel this way is from the misunderstanding of religious organizations. They do tend to soil the organic elements of their beliefs with correpted messages and hostility towards non-believers. Fear should never be the motivation to be religious, unfortunately that's what a lot of churches have as their fuel. True spirituality does not depend on the church, but uses the church as a fellowship to meet others with the same beliefs and to help and encourage each other.