Religious Instituions

        I figured I would start out my blog with a largely controversial issue. This is also something I love to talk about since I was raised in a Conservative Jewish household. I attended public school until high school, I chose to attend a Catholic school. I realized about halfway through my freshman year that I was tricked growing up. Tricked into believing in a god. I wouldn't really say tricked though, I was brought up to believe in a god. I never knew any better. After sitting through a semester of Catholic, religious studies I realized how much bullshit religion was. If I wouldn't have attended a religious institution I don't think I would have realized this as fast. Not meaning to offend any religious folk out there, but I just started to understand what was wrong with organized religion. The exclusiveness and whole persona that my religion is better than yours is one of the main reasons why I'm an atheist now. 

        

        If there actually is a higher being, would he/she/it not prefer a morally right person that doesn't believe in him/her/it to a bigoted religious asshole? I sat through my religion class thinking this everyday. Well, shit I still do. The Catholic moral teaching is the most confound teaching I've ever been educated about. I'm not meaning to only pick on Christianity, but it is the worst of all the religions. At least Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and etc. are accepting of non believers. Christianity just has that feeling of superiority towards everyone else. Basically what I'm getting at is that everyone should be educated about all religions and that way would be able to make a consciousness decision based on knowledge about what their religion should be. Attending a religious school has been the worst and best decision of my life. 

        

         The pros to attending a religious institution largely outweigh the cons in my case. The only real cons in my situation have been having to attend religious ceremonies and being harassed about my religion(being Jewish and now an atheist). I honestly love learning about different cultures and religions, I also love laughing at the stupidity of some people. I've been able to do both whilst attending a Catholic institution. We also have superior access to technology and resources than public institutions due to donations and such. 

         On a side note, this blog will range from religious entries to music, to politics, to international affairs. Oh, and some food(I'm a big guy).