This rant, I will say now, is focused on people who use religion for the base of their hate and is mostly on things I've seen around DA. This is in no way targeting any individual NOR is it saying religion is a bad thing. (rubs head) I've wanted to get this off my mind for a while, cause it just gets so tiring to see everywhere I go, so I hope I relay the message well:

It seems everywhere I go I see someone throwing out a verse from the bible in an argument to try and 'rove their point'. I see people who say "Well since the bible said this then it must be wrong, so I'm supposed to hate it!" or "You're [this or that]/believe [this or that] so you're going to hell! I know because the bible says-" and so on. Religion has never, EVER been there for you to use as the staple of your hatred; for you to twist and rip apart and distort so that you can use it to validate why you hate a group, a gender, a lifestyle etc. The bible is NOT there for you to take random, vague, easily interpreted as otherwise, verses out of to slap in people's faces.

People have started to use religion just to make their intolerance somehow acceptable; that I think is very wrong. Religion has always taught us to love one another and has never- from what I know- preached hate, it's never told you directly that something is acceptable to hate. Everything you take and absorb is what you interpret it to be saying. It's you. It's not the book or the God telling you its wrong, just yourself.

Religion has never been there just so you can hurt other people in what they do or believe and nor will it ever be. Stop using it to justify your hatred and for once own up to your own intolerance of something. Quit hiding behind God, it's not what he's there for.

There, hate on me all you want for that. I don't care, what's done is done and it's off my mind now.