I know that this article will burn a lot of bridges, but I have to get this out because it doesn’t seem that people are looking at the subject of religion objectively. I understand that when it comes to religion, faith is very important. In fact I believe that faith is the basis for most of the problems when it comes to religion (namely Christianity).

I don’t want to make it seem as though religion doesn’t bring about goodness in people because it does. However, it does cause many people (namely blacks and Hispanics) to blindly believe in something that was brought to them for the sole purpose of their oppression.

I’m not saying that it is wrong to believe in a higher source, either. Something as big as an implosion that was beginning of all life did not occur through coincidence. But when you think about it objectively without your religious bias, then it begins to make sense that religion, namely Christianity, is a form of oppression.

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I call upon Christianity because I am more familiar with it than any other religion. I know a little about Islam and Buddhism but hardly any about Hinduism and the rest. I will say from what I do understand of these religions that none are more unlike their word in Christianity.

I use to be a Christian myself and have even been told by other Christians that I don’t realize that I am a true Christian. Yet, there are a few reasons that I could never a Christian or affiliated with any other religion.

First is the fact that minorities that were invited to become Christians were invited by whites in order to justify their actions against minorities. If you take the city of Chicago, for example, when you go to predominately Black neighborhoods on the south or west sides of town, you will find more churches than schools. Yet if you take a trip to predominately white neighborhoods, such as the Gold Coast, you won’t find too many churches.

Why is this? Because those who use religion to keep order within minority communities know that the stories of Jesus only served to keep them in power. I can’t be mad any more at the trickster than the person being tricked when they never question the source or motives of the trickster.

Another reason for not accepting Christianity is because of the Bible, which was written by men. There are Christians who will say that those men were writing with the spirit of God in them, but I have a problem with that. The most widely used version is the King James Version. Now, this is a King that adapted his own version in the 15th century to suit his own needs and keep the peasants from rising up.

Perhaps the biggest reason for my not being able to buy into the religious mumbo jumbo of Jesus and the Bible as the “word” is because of Jewish people.

Jews are supposedly the chosen people of God, and even they find the stories of Jesus a little to far-fetched for their understanding. Now, if that doesn’t make you at least question your faith, there’s not much else within the constraints of space and time that will.

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The Bible is a good morals book, but that’s about where it ends. There are some Christians who are reading this and saying to themselves that I’m going to hell, as if they have some proof outside their own wanting to see me burn because I’ve spoken the truth.

I was watching a program where missionaries were telling a story about Christians in Africa (including children under 10) who were being tortured by Muslims to convert, but the Christians’ faith was unyielding so they wouldn’t.

Essentially, they were saying that children could comprehend the meaning of Christ to the point where they were willing to be maimed in his honor. I don’t know many adults with that much resilience who let alone children, and yet this was the extent missionaries were willing to go to convert people from a religion that doesn’t even serve its followers.