Religion will NEVER correlate to ethics.

I was scrolling through my Facebook Newsfeed when I saw a video from Nas Daily shared by my father. It was about why Nas was less religious though he still believes in God.

I actually had a very heated debate about this with my bff last week though it was more on the concept of Christian heaven and its "exclusivity".

I do not have any credentials that will make my thoughts more credible but if you still wanna know what i think, keep on reading. Haha!

My belief was no matter what religion, if you are a good person, you deserved the heaven that everybody wants for themselves. However, her belief was that you have to be Christian because the bible said in the 10 commandments "I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have any strange gods before Me". I found that hard to swallow for two reasons.

1.) If we're going to follow the bible to the end, we should be killing adulterous people, sending them to be stoned to death, but didn't the 10 commandment say thou shall not kill?? It's very contradicting.

2.) Hitler was a Christian and Ghandi isn't.

In my experience, this is a common belief from all over the world. That's why there are a lot of missions to spread the word of God in the four corners of the world, I think this has been going on since the beginning Christianity, even Jesus did it according to the scriptures.

For me, though the intentions are truly and genuinely good, historically, it's done a lot of "bad" for something so banal. Opression, racism, and colonialism in the name of religion, those are just a few of what happened when people speak for God.

Don't get me wrong though, I TRULY believe in God, Jesus Christ, the Saints, Mama Mary but in my own opinion "religion" is just a very big group of people who you share your common things with, comparable to a school org or a swim team.

Here's one thing I'm 100% sure though. I know that EVERY religion just tells us to be a good person, be kind, humble, generous and all that jazz. If one religion is truly the "correct" one, I think spreading goodwill is our best bet for salvation.