Just Religion

Hey everyone. By now it has probably made clear by the pentagram to the right that I am not Christian, and with a conspiracy like that, I wouldn't want to be. I'm not dissing them; to each his own, but I just notice some flaws in their philosophy. I don't think it's fair that there is this huge rich/poor discrepancy between the highest "boss" dude in the church hierarchy and the lower worshippers. Why is it that the bishops and the pope and all the other higher-ups drive BMWs and Rolls Royces and wear these bling-ed-out crosses with gold and diamonds in them? Last time I checked, they were supposed to take a vow of poverty, and if I understand it right, there is nothing in that vow that says that they can live in the lap of luxury.

I also have a problem with confessions. I mean, you can be the most evil, vile person, break all ten commandments, commit the seven deadly sins [I can never remember them], and then you go into this tiny box the blurt it all out to your priest, and he tell you to go do 30 hail mary's and you're forgiven? And then you're back on the streets again, to go be a hypocrite.

I feel bad for the true believers, not the takers-what-they-want-from-it, who ruin it all for the true-blues. I really have a lot of respect for a person who can trust in something so completely, who can love someone unconditionally, based on nothing but one sole body of text.