The ones I skipped: Day nine – Your beliefs

I love talking about religion. I find they way it influences people, and their actions interesting. Religion is this big thing and it affects everyone, even the atheists. It is part of our culture and legacy. It’s important to learn about religion and its different branches. I like discussing religion, even though I know that it is one of those no-no conversation subjects, but I think that when it is all in good humour, it can be very interesting. My problem is that I am a bit too blunt sometimes and can even end up offending people even though I don’t mean to.

But I am quite clear on my own beliefs. I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe that there is some... person up there, who made us, made this world and decides our faith. When people pray I don’t believe that there is someone up there listening. I think that when we die, we die and we are dead, not angels, not inhabitants of either hell or heaven, we don’t change into other people or animals or toilet paper, but we are dead. I believe that life is just one big chemical process, and that there are a hundred thousand different planets out there with humans on them. I believe in evolution and science and common sense (Sorry if that offended you, but hey, it’s my opinion.)

Look, I respect religion. You can believe what you believe, just don’t shove it in my face, you know. No pressuring, no bothering me when I’m just outside being me, no flyers in the mail or videos sent to my Youtube account. But I honestly think churches are beautiful and should be taken care of, because even though I’m not religious myself, it is still a part of my culture too. It really seems so nice to have something to believe in, to trust your future and to have a bunch of people you share your opinions with. But I just can’t do that, it makes no sense to me. You can say that I haven’t been ‘’saved by the lord’’ but I like living like this.

I guess that is it. The truth. My beliefs. I don’t like calling myself an atheist because I don’t WANT to rule out everything, but I just can’t get the idea to be sane in my little pea brain. I’m a Mariekeist.