Religion Feels Like High School

The more I experience religion the more I feel like I am back in high school. Where else can you find various groups of people that have more disdain for the other groups than puberty ridden high school teens? 

In high school you have the popular, cool crowd; the geeks in the chess club; the emo kids that hate life; the jocks; etc.

The same thing is true in religion. There are the Christians, the Jews, the Wicca, the Muslims, etc. Of course, each over-arching religions have various denominations who can't even agree, just like the various high school cliques, there are divisions within the divisions.

Just like each group in high school has their reasons for feeling cooler than the others, religions have their reasons for being better than others.

People can't just get along, they need to feel superior to those around them. The urge to say "I am right and you are wrong" is overwhelming for most people. It is definitely ironic that most religions want world peace but will never agree with the majority of other humans.

It feels like we all want world peace, but only if the world agrees with us. For some reason people can't agree to disagree and just get along.

Other discrimination has been recognized as such: segregation in the south, Asians being sent to camps during WWII, the current fight for gay marriage, etc. Why the fuck hasn't the discrimination of religions been condemned as harshly as other discrimination? A case could be made that nothing has been more divisive and destructive to humanity than religious discrimination. Was the aggression levied against Muslim-Americans post 9-11 not simply religious elitism?

For those of you that read this and believe in a God I have a question. If God is as big as you believe, then why can't God act through ways we don't understand? Can your God only draw people through the ways we understand, or do we as a society just hold so tightly to the 'us versus them' mentality that we can't bring ourselves to be okay with that idea?

Well, that's all for now.

-Clay