Why Can't People Just Love People??

Sometimes people are stupid.  Especially my family.  I say stupid, because I don't have a better word to describe them. 

I'm in a tense state right now.  I know that I'm on the verge of all of life blowing up in my face.  I'm sure many of my friends won't want to talk to me anymore.  And there will be an ultimate falling out from the rest of my family.  I'll probably get kicked out live on the street.  I won't exist to them.  They'll stop talking to me.  They'll stop paying for my insurance.

 And why?

 Just because I'm finally drawing the line to leave their church forever. 

I sent in my resignation letter the day I turned 18.  A month later, I've finally gotten a response.  And I'm going to have to be mean about it.  I don't want to have any 'friendly chats' with church authorities. 

I just want to leave.  But this church wants to make sure that it is hard to leave.  That anyone who tries to leave gets hurt and shunned by the true believers.  And especially their family.  But they don't scare me. 

Why does my family have to be so stupid?? 

It's like every thing and every person has to hold up to what their religion says before they can love them. 

I don't hold up anymore.

So it's goodbye love for me.  Hello hate. Hello to stay away from your brother.  Hello to 'my liberal views might taint those younger than me'.  Hello to stay away from my children.  Hello to you're not part of the club.  Hello to 'you're no child of mine'.

People say their family means the world to them.  That they are their biggest support.  But mine's never been that way.  They only support me if I hold to the religious standardized test.  If I don't, I'm the stupid one. 

Love is the universal language.  If you don't believe in God, or anything religious, then you at least hold to the belief of loving people. 

People should stop letting religion stand in the way of love.

God does not always equal love. 

God can equal judgement.  God can equal 'I'm better than you'.  God can equal war.  And arguments.  And hating on people who aren't believers.

 Religion is often not a path to love.  Religion puts rules down on how people are supposed to love.  But love is meant to be free.

Religion tries to tell people that they know the way to live life with less thorns in the road.  To be the moral compass.  But they are the thorn in the road.  And the moral compass wasn't even assembled correctly.

Why can't people just love people??

~M.B.~