Unholy Religion...

I've definitely grown beyond tired of people using this whole religion thing as a means to hoist themselves above the rest of the world. As if blindly believing in some mythical being makes you, in some mildly retarded manner, better than someone else. Don't get me wrong, i'm not an athiest. i do believe. i am a christian. i am also a realist.

I wonder at what point religion made the shift from belief to passtime. Way back when your grandma and grandpa walked all over tarnation just to go to church, it meant something. Religion was the rock, the source of strength, the 'insert random hymn lyric here'. Nowadays religion's like an extra-curricular activity, or better yet, a chore. No matter what kind of fucked up, roller-ish, dirty dude type shit we've done during the week, we always seem to plop ourselves in the back row of the church on Sunday don't we? Walking contradictions. It's funny how people who claim to believe in an omniscient higher power seem to think that he (or she, i mean who knows?) doesn't see what goes down during the work week. As if from Monday to Saturday God's on the beach sippin margaritas so he doesn't get around to checking out what you're doing. Doesn't seem too logical does it? (but hey in our defense... neither does religion)

I'm not saying that there aren't people who have true bonds and true walks with God. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with going to church, reading scripture, praying, or praising. But, at some point i really think we need to wake up and make religion more than a means to qualify ourselves as 'good people'. At some point you've got to wonder why there are five offerings in one service, an ATM out front, and commercials in between program bullets. At some point we've got to wonder how we can sit through hour long sermons without one mention of a single scripture. Or wonder why preachers push navigators and fly in G4's while their congregation push shopping carts with all their possessions in it and ride the bus. At some point we've got to wonder...

Or maybe we don't. Maybe we don't wonder or question or contend or refute. Maybe we accept it. Blindly. Maybe that's what religion is all about nowadays anyway... blind faith. Maybe if we believe that sitting in a building on a sunday will wipe away the actions of the week, then it'll be so. Maybe if we believe that dropping a tithe in a bucket equals pearly gate admittance then it will be so.

... But you should probably pray on that.