I've always concidered myself lucky to have been brought up void of any religion what so ever. Other then an occasional wedding or funeral I've only ever been to one regular church service. Speaking of weddings anf funerals, a note to my fellow non-believers, avoid Cahtolic ones if at all possible. Oh my god it like your up, your down, your back up and they go on for-ev-er!
I try to be fairly knowledgable about the major religion, mostly out of curiousity. I understand the idea that religion is the earliest mechanism to exert power over a population. I also get the usefulness of information and lessons learned being passed from one generation to the next in the form of mediphorical stories.
I guess what I've never quite understood is how it is that so many take their religion's teachings of peace and love and turn it into conflict and division.
