Hold on a minute, will yah.

Speaking of trends, for some reason it has become "trendy" to hate religion. I think this is a cheap and easy way to avoid having to face what you are too uncomfortable to think about, but my point today is that often people will just say "I don't like 'organized' religion" or "religion is just a corrupt institution". And I say hold on a minute while we get the facts straight. Faith is not religion, that is important to understand. Yes, it is certainly true that religious leaders have made huge mistakes in our past and will always continue to do so, but I think it is important to give them the-benefit-of-the-doubt, we have to remember that what they are doing is attempting to interpret an enormous amount of text written by possibly hundreds of different authors who spoke languages not common anywhere in the world today and who lived over 2000 years ago in a culture very very very different from our own. We all know how confusing it can be to read Shakespeare's work, and this was written a mere 400 years ago in a culture and language much more similar in comparison, to ours today.  So the task of interpretation is a difficult one, and mistakes are bound to happen. No one is claiming to be perfect, but these religious leaders are only trying to do what they think they is right. Which may or not be end up being correct, but lets lay-off them and realize the extreme difficulty present in the manuscripts they are attempting to gather there beliefs from.