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THESE ARE MY BIBLES (bear with me here) So yeah, these are 3 of my 4 bibles. There’s 2 King James versions, one New King James (not pictured), and a New America Standard. You guys know I went to seminary and dropped out right? Yeah, I did. It’s a long story, mostly involving a lack of tuition money. But anyways, so I struggled thinking about if I should make an easter post or not, because I haven’t been religious in a long time. I am an atheist or on a bad day an agnostic (joke), but I didn’t want to offend any friends I might have on here by really openly being a dick about a religious holiday so here I am posing in pictures with bibles… I digress. I don’t hate religion. I have a religious upbringing, and educational background, I’ve read the bible at least 6 times cover to cover and I don’t think it’s a ‘bad’ book, I just think it’s Wrong. Though I do think the bible has some good stuff in it, and you know, it’s basically the primary text for all of western civilization, so it can’t be thrown out, yet… But some weird and wild shit happened to me and then eventually I’ll say that I grew up, and really started doing some reading, really starting trying to think and I just started moving away from religion. Things stopped making sense. Why were my gay friends going to hell? Why can’t a woman make her own choice about her own body? Aren’t these morality demands no longer applicable today? If the basic message of The Gospel is LOVE then why is it love, or else? Stuff like that. I don’t hate christianity, or christians, though I hate what it does to people and its predatory leaders. I hate that it divides otherwise civil people and turns them on each other. I hate the level of control that it forces upon the follower. Because I think people should be free to make their own decisions in life. Having faith isn’t a bad thing, it just needs to be kept in check is all I think. When I see something beautiful in the world, natural or otherwise, I praise nature and it nature alone, because I believe that it’s the randomness, the chaos, that makes it all beautiful. It a WONDER we’re all here, so let’s enjoy ourselves. this is really jumbled and i’m really sleepy and sorry, tl;dr guys.

THESE ARE MY BIBLES (bear with me here)

So yeah, these are 3 of my 4 bibles. There’s 2 King James versions, one New King James (not pictured), and a New America Standard. You guys know I went to seminary and dropped out right?

Yeah, I did. It’s a long story, mostly involving a lack of tuition money. But anyways, so I struggled thinking about if I should make an easter post or not, because I haven’t been religious in a long time. I am an atheist or on a bad day an agnostic (joke), but I didn’t want to offend any friends I might have on here by really openly being a dick about a religious holiday so here I am posing in pictures with bibles…

I digress. I don’t hate religion. I have a religious upbringing, and educational background, I’ve read the bible at least 6 times cover to cover and I don’t think it’s a ‘bad’ book, I just think it’s Wrong. Though I do think the bible has some good stuff in it, and you know, it’s basically the primary text for all of western civilization, so it can’t be thrown out, yet…

But some weird and wild shit happened to me and then eventually I’ll say that I grew up, and really started doing some reading, really starting trying to think and I just started moving away from religion. Things stopped making sense. Why were my gay friends going to hell? Why can’t a woman make her own choice about her own body? Aren’t these morality demands no longer applicable today? If the basic message of The Gospel is LOVE then why is it love, or else? Stuff like that.

I don’t hate christianity, or christians, though I hate what it does to people and its predatory leaders. I hate that it divides otherwise civil people and turns them on each other. I hate the level of control that it forces upon the follower. Because I think people should be free to make their own decisions in life. Having faith isn’t a bad thing, it just needs to be kept in check is all I think.

When I see something beautiful in the world, natural or otherwise, I praise nature and it nature alone, because I believe that it’s the randomness, the chaos, that makes it all beautiful. It a WONDER we’re all here, so let’s enjoy ourselves.

this is really jumbled and i’m really sleepy and sorry, tl;dr guys.

PROVERBS 21:17

Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man;
he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

I’M TOTALLY OK WITH THIS.