I understand the need for religion.

Because not having anything to believe in is terribly lonely. Mind you, believing things that are unproven and skeptical may not be any better, but at least no one can ever prove you wrong.

I feel bad for people who are very religious that get cancer, or something else they couldn’t prevent and blame God. I couldn’t imagine going through something like that and losing faith in something I believed in at the same time.

Believing in anything else though—putting your faith in anything, especially other people or god forbid, yourself, is bound to end badly. I do feel like religion, like alcohol or drugs, is often a scapegoat, something people can use to defend their actions, or a reason to not believe in themselves.

I still believe in music and sex and not much else. So far, those two things have never let me down.

I lose faith in myself every day.