God Help Us.

God help us all

I sat there.
Stewing.
Angry at the world.
That day,
I had witnessed a Christian church service.

It was cult-like.

They worshiped beings,
having little proof of their existence.
They chanted verses and phrases in unison.

It resembled a hive mind.

I returned home shortly after.
I learned that I was not able to see someone dear to me that day.
Their loved ones were off to engage in cult-like behavior.
This person, so very dear to me,
was simply being dragged along.

And so I asked myself,
Why?

Why must this thing we refer to as religion,
dictate people's lives in the manner I had witnessed that day?

It is not natural.

At all.

Why must this person, so very close to me,
be strung along with their brainwashed family,
to worship beings they do not believe to exist?

They are trapped.

It is saddening.

For they cannot reveal their true feelings to their family.
This would lead to disappointment from their family.

For many others,
it is exile,
ridicule,
and disownment.

And so they are forced.

Because their loved ones believe,
they must "believe" as well.

If they provide resistance,
they will be coerced.
Relentlessly.

Until they are of age,
they cannot be free from the shackles,
that bind their family to religion.

Their family will never be free.
Their family will forever be chained to belief.

Until their lives cease,
they will be forever bound,
to false hope.

And so I ask myself,
Why?
Why must people's lives be shackled like so?
Why must this cycle continue?

This cycle,
of old instilling cult-like behavior into young,
of people becoming ingrained with false hope,
of individuals clinging to false beings.

This has persisted for Thousands of Years.
Why must it continue?
God.
Help.
Me.

I sit here solemnly,
knowing that nothing will change,
because it has existed for Thousands of Years.

All I can do,
is protect and shield the ones I love (the free ones),
from this Evil we know as Religion.