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because i don't go to church, people think i'm not religious. i hate that. just because i don't believe in or participate in organized religion does not mean i'm not religious. i respect everyone for their beliefs and i think organized religion has good intentions, most of the time. but believing in too much can sometimes be just as bad as not believing in anything at all. i don't think any one religion is 100% true. to me, that seems impossible. i think as humans we are meant to wonder. wonder what god is and what happens after this life in this body. i mean, how could anyone really know? just because we read it in a book created by humans, we are supposed to have faith and take the information as facts? and as humans, we are taught to believe that the world revolves around us. in religion, we are taught to idolize other humans to the point that we put them on a pedestal right next to god. when i think about the world and the universe, i find it hard to believe that we are as big and as good as we think we are. there has to be something bigger and better than humans, we are just to self involved to realize it. and i do believe in god. and i believe he is much greater than any human. i don't even picture "god" or "heaven" in my head because i could never fathom, or even tryyy to understand, what that must be like. and i'm glad i can't. it's makes it that much more exciting. people may judge me for my somewhat simple, yet hard to fully explain beliefs, but that's okay. because most of the people who do have been born into a specific religion and it's been all they've known their whole lives, never exploring other religions or beliefs around them. and i don't have as much respect for close-minded people like that anyway. i believe in nature and god and life and death and so much more that i can't explain through writing right now. but please, never tell me i'm not religious, because i promise you i am. i have my religion and you have yours.