Old man’s rambling #2

The Christians sure believe in a lot of things. They seem scared, terrible scared and the only cure is to spread their fear far and wide and make everyone else frightened too. You’ve probably had a christian knock on your door before? I wonder if they get some kind of bonus for every convert… I wonder how they would keep track… Maybe they just do it for the street cred. I dunno what goes on behind church doors but, after all, but I feel like money is the thing that everyone is after. Another convert means more money and more money means more converts and so on. The guys doing the walking though, they’re brimming of faith! Faith that they won’t get stabbed or shoved or get their dicks bit off by the guard dog. I guess it’s the same for all door-knockers but I still think Christians carry a bigger risk. Everyone wants a piece of them, one way or another. What bugs me most about them are their smiles, their ugly stale smiles and their half maniacal confident look, the look that says ‘I’m sure I’m right!’ But in reality they are lost, lost like any of us, in search for answers. Perhaps they hope to find the answers in strangers, that God will test them or something.

Hell is a nasty place, so I’ve heard, invented by the Babylonians or maybe it was the Greeks. The Greek’s hell always seemed tamer than the Babylonians, but then again, the Greeks didn’t have a choice and ended up there regardless. Heaven is just a nasty lie, really, something the Jews invented, at least they don’t have a form of hell. Christians stole from both of them because they realised it easier to get converts with both stick and the carrot. In any case, it’s the door-knockers that always get the bad end of the stick, it seems like, not that I have any sympathy for them.

That’s not to say faith is not important. Religion doesn’t have monopoly on faith, though. I have faith that what the scientists are telling me is the truth, even though they don’t know themselves. It’s a better deal than being a christian, I feel like. I can question things without getting hanged. The only form of science that I don’t trust is when they tell people what’s healthy. They’ve made too many U-turns and I’m confident they don’t know shit about anything, as if the human body is more mysterious than the Universe. The only thing I know for sure is don’t drink too much water… But I’m not really bitter about that, at least they’re trying. Healthy people don’t need an ultimate truth to latch onto. Christian’s faith is flawed but then so is mine, the difference is that I’m not walking around telling people they are wrong. Perhaps that’s what the christians think what schools are, places for brainwashing. Only people that actually brainwash would think that; only a cheater would accuse another of cheating if they lost. The most vocal anti-gay is gay as hell and so on… You judge people based on yourself. I tend to avoid people with strong opinions either way. We have no idea what we’re doing and we make shit up as we go along, making living a little easier for ourselves.

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