is it so wrong to not give a god-damn?

Religion just so happens to currently be the bane of my existence. And if you happen to know what genre this might be, I would be most obliged if you'd tell me where it belongs. They didn't have an "opinion" option.

           Where is the truth in opinion? Tell me that. Explain to me this instant why your idea of perfection and purity is any more valid than mine. What? Because you have an ancient book of prophecy on your list of must-reads? Because you have powerful, rich men telling you ‘the truth’? Because, at some point in your uninteresting, sheltered life you did something regrettable and now the only way you can come to grips with it is by convincing yourself that maybe, just maybe, if you deny yourself your humanity here you won’t be afflicted by it when you get ‘There’?

            Pathetic. That is absolutely pathetic, and worse, it is hurtful.

            Well, I did regrettable things, too. But I don’t regret them. And I have behaved questionably for shady reasons, but that doesn’t make it wrong. And I have followed my nature as best I can without hurting you, or them, or what have you. So don’t tell me that without your help, there is no hope for me here or ‘There’. I have plenty of hope, that if I stop admonishing myself for being the creature I am, I can perhaps live what is left of my dysfunctional existence with some degree of peace and self-loving.

            Because, frankly, I just don’t give a God-damn what you think, or where you say I’m going, and for what reasons you might concoct.

 

Author's Note

help with the ending. how do i round it out so it doesn't just drop off like that???

Reviews

[kewlbluetiger]

Yes.

I think the ending needs more meat to the challenge about the "Where you say I am going" part. Final paragraph in this essay should package the points made throughout it and convince the reader. "I don't give a God-damn what you think BECAUSE _____fill in your reason in the blank that ties into the rest of the essay______." That would be stronger finish.

Otherwise it seems, well... opinionated ;-)

[Collect-Eye]

It's an essay. and I'd recommend addressing an imaginary religious leader in a hypothetical letter as maybe a theme for it.

As for the ending, I don't rightly know.