Once again, I am stunned

By peoples beliefs that is. Anyone who actually knows me, knows I love biblical history. I love finding out when some of the stuff in these books are true. So I just finished watching a Koran special. I found out quite a bit I didn't know as far as the actual writing down went. I also didn't know since there is no "governing body" so to speak it is up to each person to read and interpret the meaning of this cryptic and confusing piece of writing. So of course similar to every other major religion Muslims can pick and choose which suras they want to display the rightness of their particular beliefs.

So here I am once again...wondering what is wrong with everyone.

How can they just believe these things they read in their various holy books, especially when the books themselves so often contradict themselves. When the history behind the creation or compilation of these "holy books" is known to have been flawed or at the very least heavily influenced by whatever the powers that be at the time wanted the religion to represent. I know everyone thinks about the Catholics first when they hear this. They were after all the most powerful for a very long time. They were instrumental in the Mary Magdalene being a whore bit simply by her placement in the bible, immediately following a whore that is. They were not the first to make up stuff for their religion and they will not be the last.

I still believe with all my heart, Christ's message, even Mohammed's message (when placed in historical context) are peaceful ones. So why do they seem to engender so much hate. Throughout time people have warred with one another over whose religion is right. Why? If I'm wrong why does anyone else care about my soul. I can just hear people saying I don't understand because I don't believe but that's simply BS. It's better to kill me than to allow me to believe whatever I believe?

There was a Newsweek article about the ways in which the bible supports gay marriage or at the very least does not support what we in the Christian west call marriage anyway. There are of course the usual outcries from the hypochristian right. "the writer will burn in Hell" (how very Christlike) and so on. Most of the anti-gay stuff in the bible is in the old testament, mixed with the how to properly make a sacrifice stuff and how to get a good price for a slave Yes, it does say a man shall not lay with a man, but not a word about women. If we're going to be literal does that mean it's ok for women? Again, I can hear it. I'm being ridiculous etc...

So I'm back at my original point. Once again I'm stunned. Stunned by people's intolerance, even hatred, of those who are not like themselves, who don't follow the exact same god, in the exact same way. They jump back and forth between fear of me and hatred of me.(Me and my filthy atheist friends of course) Someone even said I was pure evil. Wow!! Since I consider pure evil to be more along the Hitler, Pol Pot lines imagine my surprise. No wonder they want to kill each other over the religious differences. While we're there who exactly should a "good Christian" be fighting. I know the Muslims must fight the "infidel" but who does the christian fight these days? Some say Obama since he's the antichrist (there's another WOW!!!) Should the Baptists fight the Lutherans? How about the born-agains, I think they should take on the Mormons. Polygamy, the single most common type of marriage found in the bible, is obviously immoral and wrong, so somebody has to stop them. What about the scientologists? They are obviously nuts, rich but nuts. After all the idea of aliens putting themselves in volcanoes is so much crazier than a guy turning water into wine and bringing the dead back to life.

While I'm at it, I was watching that 17 & counting show the other night and they took their home-schooled kids to a Creation Museum. Where dinosaurs and people were together at the same watering hole so to speak. Where Jim-bob explained to his kids "see this is evolution, they say we come from monkeys" and the real winner "the earth is only about 6000 years old" WTF!!!! People say they want their kids raised in a world that reflects their values and I can respect that. I want my children raised in a world where idiots who spout this sort of nonsense are locked in cages. It should be child abuse to misinform children like this. I know science isn't perfect but holy shit are you kidding me? Can I just make up some alternate history about the "holohoax" or maybe that other "scientific theory" the neo-nazis have where black people are actually not human beings. Of course not ,that's crazy, but label it religion and you can say or do whatever you want. I'm rambling and I have to stop but like I said in my first post, this is one of those topics I will never tire of babbling about so be ready for more.