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[W_HAMILTON]

Never really been particularly religious. If asked, I probably would have said Baptist, just because that's what my parents were. Actually tried reading the Bible some around the time we invaded Iraq. Got some ways in, then that was around the time the Gay Marriage debate sparked up. I heard all these Christians saying that gay people are an abomination, so says the Bible, and that gay people are not made that way.

Well, being gay, I know it's not a choice. I've lived it. So if they believe that gays are not created by their God, and that this is not a choice -- well I'm living proof that they are wrong. I don't expect anyone to believe me, but I know how things are.

Needless to say, around that time I pretty much discarded all religions. I realized that none of these religions really know if there is a God, much less what he wants. God didn't speak to those people that wrote those books. All these "miracles" that were so common back then, and all the dialogue between God and everyone else that happened all the time -- don't happen at all today. They're myths, plain and simple. Myths written by men thousands of years ago who had very little knowledge about our world.

Is there a god? Who knows. I considered myself an atheist for awhile, then I found the term agnostic, and realized that better labeled what I was. I sometimes pray, because it makes you feel better sometimes. But I don't know if it does any good. I guess we'll find out someday.

Either way, out of all of this, I've come to the realization that religions are bs; if there is a God, none of these divisive religions capture what he is, or what he wants. They are man-made creations. I don't believe that God would put people on this Earth, knowing they'd be doomed because they didn't subscribe to one of the hundreds of religions out there.