Bodily autonomy

I don’t have a problem with people worshiping imaginary beings in and of itself. Does it make you happy? Does it not harm anyone? No? Then, fine. Go ahead. But when beliefs start to legally threaten my potential bodily autonomy, I became upset.

In America, and in most places globally, truth is taught to us from a young age in the form of education. Most, if not all of us are taught about evolution. Yet many of us willfully remain ignorant. I know I did for years.

Before I was old enough to make decisions for myself, I was indoctrinated into the Roman Catholic Church. Wow, did I love Jesus. I would get on my knees and pray to him (the internalized mysogny was strong) about small options in my life. I would imagine having conversations in my head, and an imagined voice in my head would reply to my thoughts. To me, it was real. It has been introduced to me as truth, and I had no reason to believe otherwise.

I had a great childhood until I was about 12, when my parents decided to move to Milwaukee because of my dad’s job. I remember I kept asking god to change my fate. “He” didn’t.

In Milwaukee, my previously perfect life became“treacherous.” I had no friends for an entire summer and I was miserable. I began to realize that god wasn’t real, and I even refused to get confirmation, despite potential tantalizing gifts from all my relatives.

Why won’t they accept science? It boggles my mind how the existence of an autonomous all-knowing all-powerful diety is still an accepted, nay, welcomed, nay invited idea into our society. Facts pointing to the conclusion that there is absolutely no great omnipotent being are literally everywhere, yet millions of people remain willfully ignorant.

*why isn’t god a woman to them? Doesn’t that make the most logical sense? The literal creators, yet they call their supposed creator of everything the opposite?