For the longest time...

[Bible Burner]

...religion didn't sit well with me. For as far back as I can remember, I always got this sick feeling in the pit of my stomach whenever I saw somebody in church doing the "happy dance". Hell, I was a kid, and I ain't "never" been "that" damn happy about "anything". All that jumping around, arms flailing, yelling and screaming made me think they were going crazy, and I never wanted to be around all that foolishness. Now, I know there are christians out there who will tell me that "I" need to be jumping around like that for "the lord", but to that, I say 'poppycock'. If religion were for real, I doubt very seriously that it would take all of that. I just never even felt that I would "want" act that way. I always felt that they were losing their minds. But then again, how much of a mind can they have if they're feeding into all of that nonsense? I was a "child", and I could see through it then, and I can "definitely" see through it now. I've been through "two" religions, and the only thing either one of them have done for me is to show me that I was just following superstion and dogma. This was getting me no where. I can't tell you how much of my life I've wasted looking for "god" to "make a way somehow". While I was busy waiting, atheists were going along with their lives, not being weighted down with all the guilt, shame, and all other manner of bullcrap because of a religion. They were just "living their lives". Period. Well, one thing's for sure; I won't waste another minute worrying about what the skydaddy thinks, because I know there "ain't" no such thing. Additionally, as far as christians thinking that I'm angry with god, and this is the reason I'm talking this way, number one; I can't be angry with something/someone that doesn't exist, and number two; have you ever been lied to? Makes you mad, doesn't it? Just something to think about...

[Aurelio Manuel Montemayor]

I wish I had questioned religion when I was a child. Sadly it wasn't until I was a young adult that I began to seriously question all of it. The social institution went first because it was so easy to see how corrupt and evil it is. The thoughts and feelings laid in early and deeply in my thoughts and being took much longer to clean out. One thing I really identified with in your note is being mad, angry and furious at the lies I was told by people who should have known better. I trusted the adult world to be basically good and true. I'm glad that the two-faced bald lying became evident.