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Faith no more

I really hate the implied futility of so many people’s understanding of ‘Faith’. ‘There’s nothing you can do except pray’. No, sorry, excuse me- there’s plenty you can do. These people are a ‘God first’ excuse brigade and that’s as irritating as Colt ‘Bastard’ McCoy and his equally retarded wife and best friend Jordan ‘Also thanks Jesus every time he takes a successful shit’ Shipley. 

My attitude probably is a cultural thing. I was raised in the Catholic Flavor of Christian Organised Religions Inc. and my parents never felt it necessary to bring God into every conversation for no particular reason or purpose. Neither did they see fit to put stupid tacky crap on their cars like fish or bumper stickers, etc. to remind the world that they LUVVED JESUS ( Two ‘s’es, ONE savior!).

If you were regular religious, fine- it was the ones who got a sudden burst of religious fever who generally caused the problems, felt i t necessary to annoy the shit out of everyone and didn’t actually do anything useful like feeding the homeless, helping the poor and actually  trying to help with ‘real’ issues like junkies, teenage prostitution, etc. That was left to the ones like my sister and her friends who didn’t go around thanking Jesus whenever they won awards at rap ceremonies. 

I guess part of our reasoning was that it’s kinda obnoxious to constantly act like you needed to validate your religious fervor and also partly that Jesus told us not to do it in one of the very contradictory gospels.