My Rant on Everything (mostly Disney and Religion)

Okay, first of all, I saw on yahoo.com that Miley Cyrus is going to write her memoirs.

Maybe it's just me, or maybe I'm just being too judgemental on something that I don't really know anything about, but excuse me?!

Oh great. Give the 13 year olds something to be excited about.

I guess I just despise anything that's too flowery, too happy, brimming with bubbles and fluffy unicorns and pink hearts. I hate Disney. I never did buy into that HSM craze. Zac Efron looks too unnatural for my tastes. Too tanned, too make-uped, too chiseled. I don't buy it.

And now the real purpose of my rant:

I just went to my mother's room and saw that she and my stepdad were watching "Touched By An Angel". Why anyone would want to watch such rubbish is beyond me. Yeah, yeah. Stories about kindness, chicken soup for the soul and show the world that god sends angels and blahblahBLAH.

But why don't the angels ever appear to Muslims? To Jews? To starving children in Africa?

I asked my mother that once, and she said "The producers just want to keep it simple." I am so not satisfied with that answer mother, I'm sorry. It's rubbish.

There was this one episode where one of the angels got sent to jail and there was this goth kid there. They talked, and much mushy stuff later, the angel was pardoned by god (why he would be mad at something he supposedly created in the first place, and would therefore know how the thing would react, is beyond me. But hey, I'm just a mortal. How could I question the almighty Christian god?)

Anyway, point is, the angel somehow softened goth chick's heart and made her believe in god again.

Uhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... yeah. Yeah. I could poke about a dozen holes in that story, but I don't think I'll bother.

I saw that the episode today dealt with the issue of cloning. One angel said something about "next it'll be humans. Nothing will ever be the same again."

Is it just me, or is it really smelling like some bullshit propaganda in here? Oh good, it's not just me.

Oh hey, don't give me any crap. I know I only saw part of the episode; about 20 seconds to be exact. But I'm only doing as the fundies do! I'm judging something that I've never really bothered to investigate! Now I know why you do it. It's very very easy!

I hate religion. I really do. I mostly hate this religion that I was raised to believe in. I never really did buy into it. Everytime I preached something it kinda felt wrong. I was especially worried about how I smiled every time a fundie was taken down by an atheist or an agnostic or a skeptic.

Maybe because my family was involved in church work, and I had several friends who were too... so I sort of saw what the system looked like from the inside.

I saw that prayer meetings actually involved people stressing to cook and prepare the house to welcome the guests, who were clutching their bibles which preached about living like Christ, while wearing their best clothes. Then they would sip coffee and speak of politics and who did what in the neighborhood before bursting into songs about the holy spirit, and then pondering over what certain verses/gospels mean.

I hate the bible. I've never really tried to read and analyze it before. And now that I am reading it and understanding what it means, I feel the urge to rip it to shreds and stomp on the pieces. I remember an argument I read once from a book someone gave me. A skeptic had asked a believer why we should believe in the bible, when it was written by anonymous bronze age men who were ignorant about a lot of things. The believer said, "well you believe in the multiplication table right? why would you believe in that when you don't know who wrote it?" The skeptic replied, "because it works so well." To which the believer gladly exclaimed "well so does the bible!"

As a young soul, I read that happily and used it whenever I was faced with a skeptic. I used it once in a debate. I now want to go back in time and gently tell my younger self how wrong she is.

In some respects, the believer is right. The bible does indeed work. It tells you to love your neighbor, to forgive your prodigal son, to ask and you shall receive and etc. However, those lessons can also be picked up from any book. From Harry Potter I learned about love; a mother's love, teen love and etc. Harry Potter taught me about responsibilities, about how sometimes we have to choose between what is right and what is easy (thank you Dumbledore.) Harry Potter also taught me how sometimes power can corrupt people.

And also, aside from those good values, the "good book" also taught Christians a lot of other things. It taught them to wage war against neighboring cities because they believed in another god. It taught them not to suffer a witch to live, which of course resulted in the Inquisition. Now I'm only 17. There are a lot of things I don't know yet. But I do know that burning women who you think are witches is a very barbaric thing to do. Of course the church apologized for it... about a couple of centuries later. Of course, they did also finally accept that the earth is ROUND only a couple of decades ago.

WANKERS!!!!!!!!

I find it very interesting that they burned witches and/or mystics, when prophets and mystics are used a lot in the bible. You'd think that if the book really came from god he'd make up his mind about stuff...


The anger has dissipated. I am utterly relieved... for the moment, that is. Once I pick up the "good book" and read Deuteronomy I'll be pissed again.