Religiulous and other things deity

So we watched Bill Maher's documentary on foolishness and glorified imaginary friends. It confirmed what I all ready knew; people are nuts about God. It was really interesting especially if you agree with pompous Bill, which I do.

Religion is absolutely fascinating. It has almost always existed in one form or another. Most have fallen by the way side, there are probably still hundreds or even thousands of different religions or variations of the same religion. The gist basically is that man or life in general isn't capable of existing without God's magical touch. Any of these gods can't seem to at any point get more than 33% of the Earth's population to believe in him. Most god's first rule is that he is A#1. He, according to the Bible (Old Testament) laid out his vengeance with reckless abandon to all who opposed him. His wrath knew no bounds. Now, he doesn't seem to ever show up unless it is in a grilled cheese or the fog on my car window. His followers don't seem as psyched about him the way the mussies do about Allah or Mohammad or whatever guy they are into.

Maybe it is because I don't speak arabic, but Muslims seem way more into their thing. It could be that knowing English and seeing the goofy, speaking in tongues, lunatics at churches like the one in Fletch Lives make a mockery of Christianity. There are only 15 million or so Jews left so it seems like their thing, while completely valid, is more like an Independent Minor League baseball league at this point. Eastern philosophies seem to make sense but their main guys don't seem "godlike" to me.

Any ways, they all seem at their core to have similar basic values. The commonalities are: A peaceful, pleasant message that is completely misunderstood or manipulated. Followers of each religion must at times have a complete disregard for common sense, especially in regards to other's views. Even though the world is changing more and more, faster and faster we must follow the same beliefs that the rich and influential put in the Bible thousands of years ago, when they were the only literate people capable of retelling stories of God, his message and your punishments. Of course they may have profited from this, but is was definitely God's word.

There are some antiquated rules they still follow. Catholic God doesn't want you to have sex unless you are procreating. If you have to break this rule, definitely do not use a condom. VD or an unwanted baby is your punishment. Some Muslims find it necessary to cut off a woman's clitoris, because allah (or one who speaks for him) says womanaren't worthy of pleasure. There is definitely no way god, allah, moses or buddha would want you to do some things different just because it is two or three thousand years after an edict was announced. God's word is final and certainly never outdated.

There are other differences obviously. The mascots, the junior mascots, what you yell when you kill someone in your god's name. Stuff like that.

It's all dumb. One of these religions may be "the one", but they are so messed up at this point they have lost all credibility. Stripped down to the basics I would be a religious person, but I don't want to be affiliated with whatever it is anyone else thinks, it's too tainted for my liking. I believe in the words of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (and my wedding vows) "BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER", at least as best you can.