Today, I’m going to write about a slightly sensitive topic. Sensitive for others, not me. I have a very specific view on religion, and I know that some people will find that offensive. First and foremost, religious beliefs should be an intimate thing, it should be between your chosen God and you. It should be a sacred thing, and nobody needs to know about it.

What we are facing as humans, is religion being weaponized, used as an excuse to hurt, kill and burn. No God wants that, don’t they? You can call your God any name you want, but I’m certain none of them want suffering. Yet here we are. I’m coming from a country that was united, where people lived in harmony, all religions were respected equally. And then someone decided that we should just start hating and hurting each other and here we are, more than 30 years later war wounds are still being picked and poked over and over. Nobody is letting these people heal and move on. Politicians benefit from the hate; they fill their pockets while breeding hate. And the war was started in the name of religion. Fast forward to 2025, the same thing is happening but somewhere else in the world.

No priest, no church and no deity should tell you how to live your life. And especially priests. One of the worst kind of people belong to that group. Of course, not each and every priest is bad and evil, there are exemptions. However, the stories we read, the stories that exist are horrifying enough for me to make my own discernment and not have much respect for them. Most of them have a history of molesting other beings and I don’t want to go into depths. Someone who cheats, hurts and treats others with no compassion or respect should be allowed to do that kind of job, let alone tell me what I should or should not do with my life, with my body, who and when will I marry. Also, who decided that their voice is so vital for our life? But there are worse people than priests, and those are people who pretend that they are great believers, they go to church, fast, follow every holiday and tradition but after church they cheat, lie, hurt or commit crimes, and usually they are full of religious tattoos, prayers tattooed on arms, a picture of a church above it, you name it. And then it boils down to atheists or people like me who question these things, so they turn onto us and call us out for questioning them.

I wonder who came up with the idea of dividing religions? Are people so blind and they cannot see that each and every religion has the same story? What if Jesus and Mohammed were both philosophers and not God given people? What if everything that was said in the books was just misinterpreted. I grew up in a home where religion was respected even though my grandfather was a communist. I guess my mother wanted to make up for the lack of religious guidance when she was growing up. But my views started changing when I started using my own head and after researching for a bit.

Whatever you believe in, be it God, Allah, Universe, or nothing at all – should be purely your belief. I understand that as species we always needed some kind of belief into higher forces, something bigger and wiser than all of us and it exists, for sure it exists but, not in the form we were taught it exists. The Universe will never tell you what to do, will never rule over your every decision. Universe just exists, and so do you, because we are all part of this great intelligence and connection with each other. Universe will never judge you or send you to hell after you die. Universe will guide you and help you navigate your own path. The Universe is you, it’s your soul, your energy, it’s the energy that connects all living beings and nature. It’s the sparks I see every time I think of existence, it’s the Milky Way, it’s the starry night, it’s the Sun and Moon, it’s the planets and water.

It saddens me to see how people fall for manipulation and how they forget to look inside themselves. We are all one, I don’t care what your name is, where you come from, we all recognize each other because we are all connected and we all breathe in the same way.

Believe in your energy, believe in yourself, do not let anyone manipulate you and rule over you.