Godliness

I've never been a very religious person, but from what i have seen in my seventeen years on earth god seems to provide a reason for people to do things that would otherwise not be considered exceptable. These days you don't have to look far to see someone justifying there actions thru god. In other words god has become the ultimate scapegoat.

Wether its Jesus, Muhammad, or Buddha, people will pray for forgiveness for their actions and act in accordance to what they believe there god desires. This is where we find the extremist that says or does something totally out of line, but can find acceptance thru others with the same faith as themselves. For instance, Pat Robertson targets God as the cause of destruction in Haiti, Rush Limbaugh votes God the cause of the Volcano eruption in Iceland. Last month Islamic clerics claimed that provocatively dressed young women provoked God to unleash the recent rash of earthquakes, and now Governor Rick Perry accuses God of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill while British Petroleum lays it on “the Lord.” 

We can not continue this trend of justification thru god. It does not promote free independent thinking and if anything drags us down as a people.