An addendum...

...also, I have no real beef with God. It's his followers I have the issue with. Five minutes reading the comments on the religious articles in the Telegraph have given me quite the headache.

It's a rare Christian you find who REALLY demonstrates values such as love, charity, kindness, etc. To EVERY PERSON. And I know that seems like quite an impossible thing for anyone to do but it's mostly, I find, Christians (at least the ones making their mouths go; presumably, like students here at work, the nice, quiet, caring ones you never see since they're off being nice, quiet and caring and NOT flapping their mouths and insulting every other belief) who are the ones who are out screaming about how everyone else is wrong and deserves to burn in hell. Gah.

Now I freely admit my Bible knowledge is sketchy at best but I'm sure there's an oft-cited part where Jesus says about praying in your own home and not bothering other people, amirite? Or at VERY least I know He was generally into being gentle to people who weren't hurting other people.

And OK, as I've admitted before, I do understand the urge to convert people if you REALLY TRULY believe with all your soul that you'll save them. Right or wrong, if you believed something would save someone you loved from an eternity of pain, of course you would try to do something about it. But it also irritates the heck out of me because I guess most people are so MILITANT and rude about it. I mean, I'm also vaguely sure the Bible encourages people to find God for themselves, not because they're forced into it by other people. Converts that are just pressured surely don't really believe at all. Therefore, you end up with aload of resentful people paying lip service to God and not really loving Him as Christians are meant to. Why can't people make their own minds up? I was lucky enough to have, once, a friend who gave me some Christian literature (a pretty interesting read as it happens) and then left me alone to think about it. She was very Christian, very into Church, and even invited me along once (I hated it, but that's a different story and also not even anything to do with God) but never forced me to go back. I think that's not unreasonable; to give the person you care about enough to want to 'save' them the things to consider then let them alone.

Wow, that turned out longer than the one line about the Telegraph I'd intended. I'm going to spam this blog for all it's worth, I can see this coming...:/