To believe in something, almost anything at all, has to be the hardest things for a person to do. We’re molded, sculpted, and shaped around every failure; every incident where you got left behind; like a scare in your back the failures follows you. It’s sad but that’s how we learn best is though mistakes and failures. I’m sure the first time you ever put your hand on a hot stove was probably the last. Skeptics by nature, where were raised into a society that shows mistrust is the only way to survive. The mental anguish we are drug through from the very moment we begin to from ideas of our own. Misleading advertisements, Government scandals, and even the media, all lying and deceiving to earn you falsely sought after trust.

I do not believe in god. It took me many years to figure out why it was so hard to say that. Fear, It drives us as if it was the ultimate motivator. You don’t even have to think to be afraid. You become dumb, blinded, like if you were to say the heavens them selves would open up and strike you dead when you’re afraid. Almost every one believes in some sort of higher power, does that prove it is true? If so how can there be so many different ones? Think back to the great wars of the religions, they still continue today. Even if you were to just look at Christianity, you see a struggle for power. Nowhere in the bible does in say people must form groups and believe only one way. All I know is that the bible does give us a great deal of hope. During dark times people need hope. With hope people stay calm, and don’t become irrational. As we evolve as a society I believe that religion will fade. We won’t need this blanket or these guild lines that seem people have trouble still following even when they attend church.

As the creation of Israel is after math of thousands of years of oppression of the Jewish people. It took many bloody battles and many years of unspeakable horrors to realize this dream. Yet they are still not at peace. The country is ravaged by suicide bombers, who are the product of lies and turning religion into a weapon. Now that we have a feeling of security it ‘s ambushed by the one thing we could all turn to. I’m having a hard time believing the one thing that is suppose to save is worth believing in.

My grandma told me a story once of her friend. A young boy named Jim was a faithful child as most children are. He went to a catholic school and every day he would get one his knees and make a big fist with his fingers over lapping each other and held them tight then listened to every word the preacher spoke. He did this every day without question. He soon started to believe that during this time if he were to take his hands apart the church would crumble around him and anger god himself. A child can only wonder so long before the curiosity eats at his very soul and the question must be answered. So he finally mustered up the guts to go against his faith, or even more to test his faith. All he had come to know about his world was now gripped in his hands. He held more power than he had ever known. So he pulled his pinkie off, almost like it was Velcro it resisted but he ended up forcing it off, then nothing happened. So he pulled his next finger even slower and his heart began to race as he tightened his eyes and awaited the chaos soon to occur, but nothing happened. He finally let his hands free and jumped up. His heart was racing so fast, he felt like he was going to faint “Oh my god, what have I done!” Is the only thing he could think. He soon realized the church is still there. Nothing happened, nothing at all. All the people are still in prayer and the priest is still rambling on so all was well. So he got up from this atrocity that has occurred and walked out the two huge wooden doors at the front of the church never to return again...

The simple mind of a child can believe in something so deeply but so false, but this is not far from what people as a whole believe. They world will fall apart if they take there hand from the pray position, or get up from there rugs pointing at Mecca. We question everything else in the world, from the world being flat, all the way to how to enforce these “guidelines” that were placed before us. We’ve had rebellions to revolutions, revelations to epiphany to change the world, by disbelieving what was thought to be truths. Would the world be so terrible if we tried to question your own beliefs and not every one else’s? Not saying don’t believe in something; Just ask your self if it is what is true to you. Open your mind to the possibly that some one else might have an answerer you never thought of.