Being Religion's Bitch

My very first (working) blog and I have to be bland enough to write about religion. Fitting however, since, thanks to a dear friend of mine, I had a strange epiphany.

These past few days have once again been marked by end-of-the-world-phobics as, well, the end of the world. They say they can determine the exact date of the apocalypse as the 21st of May 2011. Our world will (again) seize to exist, our children will be doomed and we will (again) be extradited to the eternal damnation of darkness and despair.

It is quite a depressing notion, agreed, but a familiar one at that. The church has always managed to inspire me with awe and instill some sick sense of fear. I was very young when I had sleepless nights about not going to heaven. The church had not only made me a God-fearing child, but a woman who feared my very own human nature. It gave me the "gift" of guilt. And with that fear and guilt, it clasped my loyalty to my religion, as it did so many others' as well.

We all know we should give a tenth of our income to the church. It is written in the Word of God, and so it shall be. But, with the dawn of the New Age, people tend to forget of the church, or they simply choose to follow some other belief, ot they are too lazy to make the effort to go to church, or they simply see the church for what it really is : a festival of hypocrites liars. So, the church grow poorer by the day, with less foreseeable income to come in, and the religion stagnates. So, in true Hollywood style, they dip the world in a state of panic and fear and guilt by advertising the Apocalypse on a specific date and time. The world REPENTS and rush to churches everywhere to pay their tenth for a piece of heaven in the afterlife. McDonalds do it with their BigMacs, so why not the church with the Apocalypse?

After a while, the churches runs empty again, and the process is repeated. So much for the dignity of Christ. This is called the sheep mentality.

So, on the 21st of May 2011 I'll be sitting at home, with a cup of tea, studying for my Criminal Procedure Law exams. I'll watch the end of the world from out my bedroom window. It is a lovely view. :)