Something that has always bothered me about religion (name your poison), are the almost infinite interpretations of the holy scriptures attended and how different groups of believers choose to dissect the exact same text. Within, Christianity alone, there are multiple sets of beliefs, all based on “the bible”. For instance, one major sect, venerates certain dead people as having influence in heaven and by praying to them, there might be a resolution to whatever their interlocutory concerned.

I don’t despise believers, of any faith. Nor do I turn their sincere belief into some joke or pun. The reason, as many of you already know, is because I, too, was once a believer and struggled with that belief for a long time before I finally stopped wrestling with the idea of belief and realized that I could no longer believe. Atheism, as I have written before, was not a choice, but a conclusion.