If there's an individualistic god with a sense of self as depicted by most religions, he's a sadistic hypocrite who likes to play with his creations, and who supposedly created us and immediately put us to the test on this planet to see if we really are worth keeping.

How can you create something and just toss it into a world and give it all these "rules" so you can accept it? Isn't that just plain ridiculous and cruel? I know it is to me.

Something extremely ironic is that this cruel god "loves" you and suffers when you deviate from him and he has to punish you sending you to a place of eternal agony. So basically he is a two-faced schizophrenic god who is inevitably, and constantly happy and sad at the same time. Sad when he punishes those who don't follow him, and happy when he's praised and worshiped.

The truth is that all these "rules" are practically impossible to follow perfectly, as even the thought of saying a lie already angers this mentally unstable god. So even if you make it to "heaven" you still have to be careful not to have a single bad thought for the rest of eternity fearing god. That would also be some kind of "hell", if you ask me.

When something doesn't seem to fit this god governed reality, religion often has one answer, and one answer only: "God works in mysterious ways". OK so this god besides being cruel, hypocrite, and schizophrenic is also sneaky and doesn't really want you to know a lot of things, only a few. Coincidently these only few things he wants you to know are also the things that the leaders of religion use against people to get them to join and get attached to their religion by implanting the fear of being forsaken and doomed by this god of theirs.

I believe in a God (if that's what can be called), but it's not even close to how it's described by most religions. I recommend a book called "A Course In Miracles" if anyone's interested in finding out what I believe in which makes perfect sense to me, and doesn't contradict itself.

The other day I was introduced to a book called "A Course In Miracles" by my sister and I'm loving it because it gives a very RATIONAL explanation about this "real" world, what God is supposed to be about, what Jesus really was trying to tell us, and who we really are and where we come from.

Something that really got me thinking was that this book says that sin is the absence of love and nothing else. So any kind of act that lacks love would be a sin.

In that case, just to take the sexual preference example, being gay or straight or bisexual or whatever wouldn't really be considered a sin if there's real love involved, would it?

And what Krupo says that Catholics preach hating the sin and not the sinner, if sin is the lack of love then hate is already a sin, so you're just feeding the sin even more and giving it more power by hating it. The only cure for sin would be to bring love where it's been "replaced" by sin.

This book has really opened my mind and now I see the world in a whole different way. Highly recommended for the open-minded who like to compare different perspectives of life.