just minishorts.

You know as much as I cannot take religious fanatics, I also have that lack of tolerance towards liberal fanatics. As much as I try.

You see, liberal fanatics, are just as bad as the Dooms Day Evangelists who're all out to scare you into loving God for Heaven. But of course, they preach something else altogether. The problem is, because so many people are up against the religionists who come with their messages of doom, Liberal Fanatics get away easy. So what if they're always putting down people who have firm conviction to religion?

'It's only fair,' say they. 'You've got to have the other end of the conundrum to fight all these lies.'

Oh so fighting fire with fire is the way to go? Or do you mean because the religious fanatics have hurt you, you find that it is only fair that you do the same to them?

A friend who knew I had been undergoing problems in my life asked me yesterday, 'How are thing?'

And I said the obvious, 'Oh should be ok. I've decided to rely on God, make the the rest of my life God-centred. In my relationships especially, I want to lean on God.'

And this person, because she's so consumed by her 'There is no God only science' philosophy, chooses, of all times, to present me with this response:

I think that people who love God more than a person don't give themselves a chance to find happiness here on earth. It'll always be the "God reason". Things go wrong, turn to God…

I said, 'Actually that's not the way to look at it.'

She had to continue, 'And things will never go right for people like this simply because the world isn't built to be perfect..'

Forgive me folks, but maybe my autopilot mode kicked into action, and I explained, 'The rationale of loving God before a person means, you choose to follow God's ways and you accept God's will for you..'

But before I could finish my explanation, she butt in, 'There it is again..'

'…and when that person you love is God-sent (literally)'
'…what about your will?'
'…and you abide by God's plans for you in your love for that person.'
'…your choices…'

What followed was a heated argument over our philosophies. Me being offended because while I had trust this person enough to share with her my personal choices, she chose to ridicule these choices because they were made in a mould that was completely against her science-only-school-of-thought. And she of course, stating that it was my fault for putting God beyond everything else that I couldn't even allow her to express her motivation and her rationale for rejecting a God-centred philosophy.

'God being the third wheel, only spells troubles,' her rationale.

But you have to understand, for believers in a religion, in a higher being that protects our lives, He is NOT a third wheel. Just because YOU cannot accept that concept does not mean our reality is WRONG. It just means we're on different planes.

And she goes on to tell me, in more words than these, 'You're forcing things down my throat.'

But check the conversation above, and tell me again. Who is preaching what? Did I tell her to accept my beliefs? Or was she telling me that my beliefs are leading me to trouble? Which was more offensive than the other?

Or maybe, and I like to think this, we were both wrong.

I've seen arguments between the atheist and the believer. And it can get ridiculous. On one hand, the believer goes on and on and on about the wonders of heaven and the terror of hell. Never mind that he has never been to either place before, but the fact that he believes in that reality so much, has got him entrapped in a capsuled-mindset that orders him to bring as many friends as possible to his side of the world.

And the Atheist, in a confused effort to ward off these attacks, will resort to violent protests and assaults on the believer's religion.

Perhaps we have to reconsider the fact that the non-God believers of this world have been poisoned by the scare-tactics that overzealous religionists have used upon them, and thus resulting in this contempt for people who sincerely choose to walk in the laws of religion (whichever God you believe in). Unfortunately what has happened is, while we are busy calling people to trust in the varying belief systems that have all granted us personal peace and calm, so many of us have contributed into building another community that lives to disprove the existence of God.

The unfortunate thing is, they too have incredible zeal, and they too have turned into fanatics. You see websites popping up everywhere, testifying about the corruption of religion. You see young people who defy religion in its face, calling themselves morally driven from the self, but unable to see the dismorality in blasphemizing the faith of a person who chooses to believe in God.

I suppose this is why we call it the 'fall of man'. So consumed by our versions of right and wrong, we let our personal philosophies transcend the importance of loving peace, loving respect, and loving universal brotherhood.