I am Methodist. That was kind of hard growing up, considering my mom was raised Baptist, my dad raised Mormon, and my stepdad raised Catholic, but I always went to church with my friends and the Methodist church just fit me better.
I can see how people can get fed up with religion, especially Christianity, because there are a lot of hypocrites out there who say they believe in Christ and use that to push their conservative, homophobic propoganda, when we know for a fact that the words translated in the Bible as "gay" homosexual" and "effeminiate" did not mean "gay", "homosexual", or "effeminate" in their original Hebrew, or even in their later Greek. Most of the time, when the Bible referrs to homosexuality, they were talking about old pagan ceremonies where guys would sleep with other guys as a way to worship their gods.
Even the intolerence with other religions is just a hypocritical pile of shit. Take the contant war in the Middle East where the Jews, Muslims, and Christians have been battling it out for years to see which religion is the "right one". If you look at the core of those three religions, you see the same thing: a message from the same God, no matter what you call Him, to treat others fairly despite their differences and to help those less fortunate than yourself, and that God is good and will forgive you your sins. All the other stuff is just fluff to fill the page, most of it concocted during the Middle Ages when King What's-His-Face of England tried to brainwash his people with "Christianity".
Anyway, that's my spin on things: no matter what religion you are, you've got to just accept and move on. Differences happen
