I can never go back

I can never go back

To something that teaches that some people are better than the rest.

If you are not like us,you are no good.

I wish I could understand why

religion has to be so judgmental

Why can't all people be the same,

weather they come from wall street or the street corner?

People are people, and they deserve to be loved,

No matter where they are in life.

But yet religion teaches they must meet up to some standard, to be worthy.

Religion is nothing more than hate wrapped in a pretty package

But yet they CLAIM to love

I do not need a god to tell me that guy on the corner needs help.

Or the lady with 3 kids on the bus may need a hand.

But yet those that claim to have a god will find a reason to walk away.

Grrrr

Ok Been having something on my mind since yesterday evening. Someone emails you since they haven't seen you in a while asking whats going on and if everything is ok. And if I need to talk they are there.....

2 paragraphs later this person goes on to tell everything that's going on (gossip) and then something that they asked me not to tell ANYONE because it was told them in strict confidence.

Why in the hell would I even think of talking to someone like that? It just made me so mad that someone confided in them something and they feel the need to spread it and yet they think I am going to want to talk to them about anything.. HELL NO.

It made me realize how much of that went on under the guise of "concern". You know, things like "dont say anything but be praying for Sis so and so because I heard....." It seems gossip is ok if done under the pretense of concern. Well it just reinforced why I will never go back. It is just so eye opening, taking a step back and seeing the hypocracy that's there, and yes I was a part of it. You are convinced things are ok in certain circumstances but how do others see it?

Hurting or healing......

Why is it that religion causes a person to so often feel they are better than everyone else? If you ain't got it like I got it, then you ain't crap. If you want to be a part of a group then you must submit to being molded and shapen to their ideals.

So many people have been hurt by religion but yet they claim it heals. They claim their god loves all but yet they reject all not like them, They hurt those that need help the most.

Can we not help each other and love each other without religion. Do we need religion to know we need to help others. Is it so wrong to want to help people but leave religion out of the picture?

So many thoughts, so little time...

So many thoughts, so little time.

Walking away has been more freeing than ever imagined. Starting to realize how I blindly accepted things without question. How I let religion keep me down. You are supposed to be free but yet you spend a lifetime in bondage to mans rules in the name of a god. A god that in the old testament ordered the murder of whole groups of people, even innocent children (Joshua 6:21, 1 Samuel 15:3, Deuteronomy 2:33-34 and many more)and many more atrocities but yet he is a god of love.

Even today the world is so divided. You go one part of the world there are children begging god as they understand him for just a bite to eat, for a bed to sleep on, for someone to love them. But yet today in America you hear people say god has blessed me, I got a new house, or a new car, or a better job. Why is your god blessing you with your wants yet thousands who cry out to him die every day and yet you say he is not a respecter of persons. Either he can not or will not fix this world and all its troubles yet wants us to think hes got this perfect world waiting for those who walk the line.

Even those that claim to follow god fight over whats right. And if you do not believe like them you are damned to hell. So much of what you find in Christianity today is so far from what their bible teaches.

Don't be afraid to question. Take a step back and look at the whole picture.

Have a great day

Trica

From the shadows...

From the shadows...

Hiding in the shadows,
watching people walk by
Do they know inside I am dying,
Do they even care

Afraid to open up and risk more pain
I go deeper in the shadows
Hoping to not be seen
wandering all around

Could things ever be different,
or always remain the same
If God is really there,
Then why all this pain.

Why so many unanswered prayers,
Unheard weeping and tears.
Could it be that heavens merely a dream
A desire to escape from this reality.

God if You are really there,
If you really care
Release me from all this pain
Help me to live again.

Tricia

Thoughts

Why is it getting so hard to just simply believe. Is it so horrible to question God? So many people today claim to serve a loving God but they show anything but love. If it don't benefit them, they could care less. They use you then throw you out.

People hate and use religion to justify it. If you are not like them then you are evil and they hate but yet they say God loves all.... What gives???

Even the more I study and read the Bible, the less things make sense to me. God of the old testament, wanted whole cities destroyed even women and children, even the infants. What did the infants do? Just because they were born to the wrong nations or tribes? Is that a loving God. Is that the same God that in the New testament says suffer the children to come unto me? The same God that says hes not a respecter of persons?. The more I read and study, the less things are making sense

Where was God?

Where was God?

When a young boy in Africa lays by his dying moms side begging God not to take his mom?

When a young girl in Thailand is kidnapped to be sold into prostitution?

When a mom in Iraq sits and weeps at the ashes of her bombed out house knowing hr kids were inside?

When that little baby here in America is shaken to death by an angry mom because he cried too much?

When a mom in Alabama pleads to God for her child to be found safe only to have him found under a pile of rubble dead in the tornadoes aftermath?

Where is God?