Good Lord

Every time I forget that the world is full of crazy people, I fuck up and open Twitter. The vitriol that flows on that site is amazing. It’s an endless stream of whining, bitching, and name calling. Facebook really isn’t any better. YouTube is generally awful. You know what? I’m all for freedom of speech and expression. I really am. I just wish the people expressing would actually have something to say.
Half of my feeds are people shouting “fake news!!”, and two seconds later the same people are sharing fake news stories. If you try to refute with actual facts, you are branded a libtard, snowflake, puck whatever insult of the week. God forbid if you try to cite BBC when refuting the crap they’ve posted from Brietbart or Occupy Democrats. Woe to the person who tries to use Wikipedia in an argument.
For the record, yes, I know Wikipedia can be edited by anyone. That’s a fact. Go right on ahead and try to edit something to lie. See how long that shit will stay up. There’s a group of super dedicated people who really have nothing better to do than to correct Wikipedia. I love those people. Seriously. They’ve argued really mundane arguments for years, that’s how dedicated they are. Go to Wikipedia, look up Guy Standing, and take a look at that cropped pic. It was originally a pic of dude sitting in a chair captioned “Guy Standing sitting”. They argued about that caption for MONTHS until someone just cropped it. My whole point is, Wikipedia is WAY more credible than The Daily Mail. Wikipedia is powered by super nerds.
Oh, and you conspiracy fuckers? What the hell is wrong with you? Like, you were amusing at one point. Sometimes you almost even made sense. Now you’re just crazy. Here’s an experiment. Look at your nearest coworker and tell them that you like to have sex with butterflies and swear them to secrecy. I can tell you that at least ten people will know that within an hour. But yeah, there’s a government plot somewhere that has at least 30 people involved, and yet Bob down the street is the only one who knows about it? Oh, or the theories that the “mainstream media doesn’t want you to know about!” . Really? Have you MET the media? They want to tell everybody everything. That’s their job. You don’t get to be a journalist by keeping fucking secrets.
I Don’t even know where I was going with this rant. Oh. Yeah. Look, I love the internet. I met my other half here back when chat rooms and MSN chats were all the rage. I’ve been lurking since aol. All the books I read I’ve downloaded. The games I play, downloaded. Music? Downloaded. Tv? Streamed. So it’s with heavy heart that I announce that maybe it’s time the internet goes away. What was wondrous and a great source of information and amusement is now awful. We have more information at our fingertips than we have ever had throughout the ages. It’s apparently turned us into a bunch of self centered fucking morons. Turn off the internet. Remove all warning labels. Maybe in 100 years we’ll be ready to try it again.

Religion

Look, I’m going to just say it. Christians confuse the hell out of me. I would probably be confused by other religions if I knew more about them. Here’s my issue. You all read the same book, right? So I have Bob the Christian telling me that gay people are going to hell. Ok, fine. If the book you believe tells you that, whatever. But then John, who reads the same book and also is a Christian, tells me that nope, gay people are just fine with God. What? Oh, and then Steve over there, fucking Steve, who is also a Christian and has also read the same book, tells me that God isn’t ok with gays, but they aren’t automatically going to hell either. The whole thing makes my head hurt. Quite frankly, people who have tried to explain it just confuse me more and they end up really pissed off at me saying I’m being willfully obtuse.

It seems to me that the different flavors of Christianity seem to pick the things they like out and then just kind of ignore the rest. Know what? That’s perfectly fine. Believe whatever you want. If you think gay people are going to hell, you just go right ahead and believe that. Also, for the record, I have no problem with gay people. I’m just using gay as an example because that it the argument I hear the most. Anyway, you be you and believe whatever you want. 

That being said, stop trying to hold everyone else to your “moral” standards. You people can’t even get your morals straight from one flavor to the next. Sometimes I find it doubtful that some of you actually read that book from cover to cover. If you want to make me live by your “rule” book, then have it have actual rules. Instead, a lot of you “interpret” the Bible. So let me get this straight, you have a book written by man (quite a few different ones to boot), telling me a story that is yet again interpreted by man. Then you go to church and have yet another man tell you his version of events. 

I’m not religious. I do have a curious mind and am an avid reader, so I have read that book. It was a good story, once you got past the archaic writing. I came away thinking it was a sort of handbook to teach you to be a decent human being and how not to be a dick. The New Testament seemed to be more about acceptance and love than the fire and brimstone Old Testament. 

I’m not actually against Christianity. I know I’m coming off as so. I’m sure I’ve met quite a few wonderful Christians. I wouldn’t know for sure because a good portion of Christians sit quietly in the background doing things to help people and generally trying to just be good and devout and in line with the teachings. They don’t feel the need to blare it out to the world or to try to convert everyone they meet. They don’t feel obligated to impose their beliefs on non-believers. Wait for it...here’s the but....

I do have a problem with “Christians “. Those are the ones who use their religion to be an asshat. They use their religion to discriminate, and then whine and cry about their religious freedom when they get called on it. They’re the ones who want to keep people fleeing from violence and war in their country out of America due to the refugees having a different set of beliefs. For fucks sake, they’re the ones who declare that there’s a “War on Christmas” when people say happy holiday instead of merry Christmas. Sorry, but I will always say happy holidays. It’s more inclusive since the entire world aren’t all Christians. I don’t just assume that everyone default is Christian, and while that Jewish dude isn’t going to be offended if I say merry Christmas to him, I believe that happy holidays is a way to wish someone good will and health while also acknowledging that he may celebrate something different. 

Also, why are a lot of you scared of Muslims? Yes, there have been terror attacks from Muslims. There have also been terror attacks by Christians. Do y’all want to be judged on that Christian guy that shot up a family planning clinic? How about I judge you for the actions of Scott Roeder. Remember him? The guy that walked into a church and shot a doctor in the head? Ringing any bells? Really, if you do the research, you will find many more instances of Christian killing sprees than you will find Muslim terrorism in America. You really don’t need to worry about getting killed in a Muslim terror attack, you’re more likely to get killed by your neighbor. It’s kind of important to remember that every single religion has extremists. 

On a related note, there are a lot of stories in the Quran that resemble stories in the Bible. There are difference to the stories, but they are similar enough to make a comparison. Which leads me to ask how do you know that you’re version of the Bible is the “right” version? It seems to me if Jesus was born in the Middle East, and the stories settings are in the Middle East, then why is it you discount the Quran? Through the years, the Bible has been modified. There were books added and books left out. Yet you choose to believe that over a book that has its roots in the Middle East, the players were from the Middle East, and it’s still pretty much the original text.