Blogs are a great way to share our lives, or to just keep an online journal. However, there is one topic that throws me every time I find a blogger that openly writes about it. Religion. This makes me feel bad. I'd like to consider myself open minded, so I'm disappointed that I wouldn't blink an eyelid at people discussing their sex lives, troubles finding the right size tampons or mental health issues, but when someone mentions their religion? DAMN, that blogger is cray-zee.
I'm not 'anti-religion' or even a plain old Aethiest (because, isn't everyone these days?) I consider myself Agnostic. ag·nos·tic n. One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God. So, I certainly don't find blogging about religion, or even just mentioning that you're religious in your blog offensive, distasteful or feel as though it's being rammed down my throat with a syringe. So, what gives? Why do I find it so damn unsettling? To offer a wild stab in the dark and attempt my own psycho-analysis, I'd guess that it's a grand 'ole mix of:
- Having been brought up in "the true religion", I'm programmed to avoid everything else like it has Justin Beiber cooties on it.
- I consider someone's faith to be very personal, but somehow also a very everyday thing. I'd be equally as surprised if someone blogged about what it was like to live life as a caucasian female, acting like it's something special. I mean, "get over yourself".
- Because so many people aren't (or claim not to be) religious these days, finding someone that's so open about it reminds of me the moment I stumbled across that dancing pony advert. Fascinating in an 'oh, that's different, kinda way.'
