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The Hormone Hostage
 

I grew up between various sorts of religions. Catholic, Protestant, Jehovas whitnesses and (even though I didn't know it at that time) Islam. It never bothered me. I grew up, being taught the Catholic form of religion. I was with the Pathfinders for a while, but I've never been much of a groups and "follow the lead" type of person. Around age 13 I started exploring the Protestant ways, but mainly to join their Chorus, which was fun for a while. I liked their more open ways of thinking and preaching better than the Catholics as well. During that time we started exploring some esoteric ways and things as well. Working with a pendle and with a table, etc. Only for a short while though, for some weird things happened and we stopped.

I never was in favor of any form of the main stream religions. I always found it kind of weird to follow the rules of a man written old book, which had changed obviously over the centuries, because people make mistakes while copying it or deliberatly change it for their own good.

Soon the idea grew, that most religious leaders just use their power to feed and nurture their own greed and better themselves. It still seems to me that way in our present time.

Even in the ways I try to follow it is like that. People write a lot of books, because they know that people will buy them just to make money for themselves, truth be in them or not. Greed rules the world.

No matter which religion you choose to be yours is fine with me. It doesn't matter as long as you let the people around you choose as well.

But never ever forget to use the brains that are given to you. Use those brains to make up your mind about your religious leaders. Look at the way how they live and what they ask their fellow believers to do. Do they live their own teachings? Do their teachings make sense?

Also never forget Love and Respect. I yet have to find the religion where in it's roots is nothing mentioned about those two things. Yet, it's amiss in quite a few places in our Life.

I could go on forever and start giving examples and comparisons, but I'm not going to.

I just ask everyone in this world for a bit more Love, Understanding and Respect. And stop believing blindly what religious leaders tell you and what is written in menwritten books, thousands of years old.....