Rants about Religion

My niece passed away last week, young full of life, kids in high school; hopes and dreams gone.


Now my granddaughter and her family are back so her dad can be treated for his cancer. Mid-thirties, young kids, hopes, dreams and cancer.

Life is unfair, but what I hate is when people lay this stuff on a god, “The Man in the Sky”, to quote “The Invention of Lying”.

I do not believe in religion at all, I grew up in a super religious home so have heard the song and dance routines that religious people spew out.

It just seems to me that it is easy to lay everything on a god, good or bad. In the case of my niece I’m sure that at her memorial service we will hear that “God has a plan”, “God wanted her home”, “everything happens for a reason”. Why is it that we never hear about what the plan was, what the reason was? Oh maybe the reason here is because she inherited the gene from her mom, but that doesn’t sound so nice now. That means that ugly things can happen to us.

With my niece, who was fairly religious, once she was diagnosed with her disease people told her to pray, pray hard for a miracle. I found this so appalling, here she was told she would have a horrid death, why not be concerned about making her remaining days better. Praying for a miracle just seems so crazy instead of focusing on what the person actually needs.

Sorry but I’m bugged by these things. I’m tired of the easy answers that never seem to answer anything.