It's rant time

I saw these pictures on Tumblr (I'll only include a few)

and these pictures has the following caption: 

"The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible"

I responded with this following rant:

I’m not a Christian, and I’m not arguing that any of these quotes are justified because they are in no way justified, but I’m getting incredibly sick of this religion bashing on Tumblr.

I have met Christians, I’ve met a very large number of them. Some go to church every Saturday and some have never set foot in a church, and I can say from personal experience that none of them are like this. Most of them haven’t read the bible this thoroughly and if they have they chose to ignore these parts of it, because nothing is perfect, and the majority of Christians realise this about their religion as well.

In fact many are gay or bisexual or lesbians or trans or anything else, and one of the main arguments against Christianity seems to be that “they all hate gays”
That belief isn’t for everyone, but it helps some people and it lets them have faith in their own existence. That is essentially what religion is: faith that you have a reason to be here, and what is wrong with having that faith no matter what the means to reach it were?

THIS IS NOT TRUE. THEY DO NOT ALL HATE GAYS. I DON’T DENY WHAT IS SAID IN THE BIBLE AND I DON’T DENY THAT SOME CHRISTIANS TAKE THIS TOO FAR BUT NOT ALL OF THEM, AND DEFINITELY NOT MOST OF THEM.

I think what Tumblr and the internet in general needs to realise is that everyone has their own life and their own problems and they need different ways to deal with them. Many people turn to music, books, TV shows, fictional characters, comic books etc. But many people also turn to religion. Is there something wrong with that?

They’ve found something they believe in and you don’t only have to believe in music. They’ve found something they can trust and something they feel gives them a purpose in life. I’m not a Christian but I have no trouble understanding that some people chose to turn to Christianity in their time of need because it reassures them that someone greater than them is watching over and has a plan. It’s reassuring to know you have a higher purpose in life and that eventually God will help you reach it.

There are different people in the world and many have their own ways of coping, so here’s an idea: Stop putting people down because they chose to have a little faith in something different to you.

Like I said, there are issues with some of the things mentioned in the bible and some of the people involved, but what happened to there’s no need to stereotype groups of people? Does that rule exempt the religious?

I would like to add that there is no way I’m saying everyone should follow a religion, I’m just saying that everyone who wants to, should be able to do so without their belief being referred to as a disease which requires a cure, because isn’t that essentially what many people used against homosexuality? Didn’t they call homosexuality a disease? Was it nice? No. What makes it nice the other way around?

Also, everything I’ve said applies to every religion not just Christianity and I can say this because I’m a Muslim who’s tried to find hope in many different things and has found it in music and books but also found it in the Islamic belief that all humans are “khalifahs” (i.e. stewards/stewardesses or the Earth put on the Earth to look after it and the people on it).

To conclude: Equality works both ways.

So far, it seems as if only one person seems to agree with me.

It seems as if only one other person thinks religious people have rights.

I really hope this is not true.