Every Wednesday and Sunday, Gather at the Social Event and Pretend to Worship

I feel like a lot of people have “conditioned spirituality” or are conditioned/forced into religion. (Dare I say groomed) They continue their ritual, attending church every Wednesday and Sunday and reading their bibles. Not understanding any word, highlighting flowery sentences and regurgitating the slop to someone they’ve perceived as sinful. Church is more so a social event among these people. Praying to God, a character from their storybook. It seems so detached, they speak of him and their “relationship” with him. Wearing their “faith over fear” shirts as they bully people, and talk about sex and vaping. Going to church is something that’s forced onto many from a young age. The cross is worthless to them though they’ve learned it shouldn’t be turned upside down, so they keep it upright even if they don’t believe in it. Sometimes I wish I was religious, or felt religious. Or had some spirituality in me that I believed connected me to an omnipotent deity. I think it’d be wrong of me to read a bible with the same detachment, and pray with the same feeling that I’m talking to myself. I think many religions (mainly Christianity) would be better represented if kids weren’t groomed into them at young ages.