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I’ve read on other sites and in books and magazines, etc, how some people cope with their depression thanks to their faith in some god or other. Well I’m sorry, but personally I think that’s a load of bullshit. I mean, why would having a mental illness make your faith in god stronger? It’s a pretty shitty thing for god to dump on you, isn’t it!?
Don’t get me wrong, I mean everyone’s entitled to their beliefs and everything. I just don’t believe in god. This might be seen as an attack on the Christian god, but I don’t believe in any of them. I know more about the Christian one, having been brought up in a Western capitalist nation – that’s not my fault. Anyway, I used to want to believe, but it never really happened. How can there be this caring all-powerful type thing watching over us when shit happens every day? I mean wars and famine and stuff, not “Oh no, I tripped and broke my leg, there’s no such thing as god!”
And on top of that, religion is the reason for most of the shit that happens. Like the attack on the World Trade Centre with Muslim fundamentalists declaring a holy war on the West. Yeah, that was a terrible thing to happen without any religious aspect at all. Maybe it’s a bad example. The whole thing about soldiers killed in combat going to heaven gets me – I mean, don’t they say “Thou shalt not kill”? So it’s wrong to kill, but not if it’s for the sake of your country… Right… But people still have church services to remember these people who might otherwise be seen as murderers. Make a whole lot of sense that…
OK, so that’s getting onto dodgy territory. I don’t mean any disrespect to the dead. I just think religion is hypocritical, that’s all.
And to get back to me and what I believe, or don’t believe… I once told someone I didn’t believe in god. This was one of those really strong Christian believer types, and she turned round and told me that I would go to hell because I didn’t believe. What the fuck?! I’m sorry, but since hell only exists in the bible, I think that’s a load of crap. How can I go to hell if I don’t believe in it? And it pretty much goes without saying that I don’t believe in heaven either. So I won’t be going there, then. Suits me. I’ll be quite happy pushing up the daisies in the whole nitrogen cycle thing. Biology is a whole lot more believable than religion. Take evolution – I’m an archaeology student, I believe in evolution. I don’t get how some people can’t. But fine, it takes all sorts to make the world go round, right?
Anyway, the whole point of this is that I don’t understand how religion helps people with depression. There’ll probably be some asshole out there who’ll say I’m depressed because I don’t believe in their god, but that’s the kind of narrow-minded crap some people come out with. People of all faiths get depression – no god can protect you from it. But if you think some god can cure you, then fine, you go with that. Personally I’ll stick with the pills.
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