Religious Teachings and Other Rantings

As  a child, I had enjoyed spending time with my friends. During the weekends was the best time for me to hang out with them. The lifestyles we lived, as I've grown to understand, were different. My weekends in the Reed house hold, were simple: sports, meals, and sleep. That was the basics of the weekends. My friends however, had a religious background and would go to church on Sundays. As a child, I didn't fully understand what it meant to go to church or to understand what was going on with the teachings and what exactly they meant. As a growing adult in today's society, I have seen some of the ways students and adults across the country view and the lack of respect that is given inside this one form of "union" between multiple people. Looking at the many countries around this world, you can see that they have either a certain religion they follow or there is some form of worship in that region. But when learning of what religion is the right one, how does one know which is true? So the conclusion I have come to as a young person is this: there is no real religion that is considered "right" and more importantly, there is no such thing as God. With religion, you see the negative in people. You find the flaws in human beings and you see the hypocrisy in most of them. I'm not saying that every single person that follows a certain religion follows into that discourse, but as a society, that is all you see in the media. How with a simple thought of someone being above you and another person claiming they are wrong is amazing to the point that it brings out blood shed. When looking through the information of different religions and how the stories go, the similarities are scary. Google could even pin point the exact similarities in the religion as well as find the scary realizations that people had dealt  with or followed. The belief that there is a God to rule over all of us seems to be the most ridiculous thought to be seeped into the brains of civilians. That some people believe that their religion is so special compared to that of another shows the judgement that is deemed as wrong in their belief systems. If God was a real being, then why would that God create the evil we have in this world? Why would a God make us suffer as individuals and allow us to die? When we die, we do not know the answer and to think that there is something beyond the world we are living in is ridiculous. Has no one ever questioned the recollection of child memories? Or before we were born? If we cannot recall where our spirit and souls were at the time, what makes them think there is something for after we are born and are living? If one were to think about the world without religion, the results would be scary to the point of how advanced we would be. Science is the most beautiful creation to ever come across man kind.  We as humans would  be even more advanced if we could set aside the petty wars that kill thousands upon thousands of people every year and get over this idea that we are the most intelligent beings in the known universe. I'm not saying aliens, but aliens could very well be real and if they were, then there is a very serious quote from the movie Transformers that Tyrese Gibson's character says, "If God made us in His image, who made them?" We seem to believe that there is alien intelligence out there, so it is only absurd to believe in a God that would have created this entire universe. This post does seem to be more of a rant or a questionable post in itself, but if human beings can look past the fact that we are absolutely nothing in this small world, then one day, maybe, we could go beyond the belief of a greater power, and better humanity. I learned that religion is just a hassle that will always tie into every conversation and to every thought that will create a chaotic mess in our world. To put it in the simplest of terms, the world needs to stop being ignorant.