Well, I guess no matter what I do, I'll just get screamed at by this tiny hedgehog, and I probably'll get yelped at even if I let it be! So here it is, one way or another:
MY CYNICAL, KINDA SAD VIEW: Organized religion (or at least the stuff written down with rules n' stuff in books) is meant to control people. Half of the ten commandments are to serve the church and the other half is sorta half right. I've never enjoyed "Because The Bible Tells Me Soooo!" reasoning. I'm not shutting down aaall religion, it's just that the rules really bug me and seem strange or self-serving a lot of the time. When I see something about striking another down, I think to myself, "That can't be it! Who ever wrote this is trying to do something else."
MY BELIEF IN A BETTER HUMANITY VIEW: It's not just my family. When I was young young, I went to Morocco. Sandy, hot, beautiful, full of pigeons. People were kind. They believed in religion as an expression of love rather than a tool of hate, which I find incredibly admirable! So I suppose they DO cherry-pick a bit, and is that right? I dunno what to say. My friends who are other sects of Islam (several folks from Indonesia, India, whatever else) are the same way. They practice peacefully and that's all.
So I'm not saying "go succ a chode, l00ser!" or anything, it's just that RELIGION IS CONFUSING AND HARD and there are so many ways to go about it! How about this: Muslims don't always go around blowing people up and posting propaganda featuring the beheading of infidels on the internet. Often times they are normal people, except they don't eat bacon, which some people might find not normal. I come from a pretty biased source, blah-de-blah, you get the idea. Uh, peace out!