God Hates Us

This is sort of scary!  Whats even scarier is that some people beleived in this, and gave their whole lives up to a religion that is depressing.  Beleiving in god is ok, but beleiving he hates you and at all times he has the power to send you to hell for any little thing that doesn't please him seems a bit extreme.  But thats just my opinion.   It would be hard to beleive in something that controls your life.  If someone was always worried about what god will think and will he approve of this they aren't living their own life.  Now I know that some people were forced into thinking it and some people were born into it with no other choice, but how did these beleifs go on!?  It suprises me that so many people would go along with this, just because they are afraid that god will smite them.  If I was living in this time with this religion I'm not saying I would lead a whole revolution, because I'm sure that it is harder to do than to say.  What I would do is question it, and try and get other people to question it.

"God damn that was racist"

  I have a summer michigan house, and every year my faimly goes up there all the time.  One of the nicer things about the area is that everybody is so friendly.  We have never had any problems with anyone up their except for one family.  We had had a few problems with them in the past, but nothing serious.  We were always friendly to them, but they were always stuck up and rude.  At an annual block party they called are family "dirty dirty jews", and some members in my family, and extended family ended up getting prett mad.  Four or five people ended up fighting, at the end of the party.  We still live next to them, but never talk to them, and they continue to talk about us, but we just avoid them.

Introductions

     My name is Eddie.  I am 15 years old and I go to Whitney Young High School.  At school I play soccer, and I played basketball last year.  I was named after  my great grandfather Edmund Horton who was a gold and bronze medalist in the 1942 Winter Olympics, so athletics run in my family.  He was a gold medalist in Ice Hurdles which he still holds the record for since it was later banned, and he won a bronze medal steering the USA'S  4 man bobsled.
     Music is a big interest too.  I used to be the drummer in a Jazz Band ran through my old school for 3 years, but I don't anymore.  Some of My favorite bands and artists are Arctic Monkeys, The Fratellis, Muse, The Strokes, Nas, Mos Def, A Tribe Called Quest and Kanye West.
     I also like to swim.  My family has a house near Saddle Lake in Michigan, and I have been going up there every summer of my life.  I have water skied and wakeboarded for most of my life.
     Most of my family is of Irish descent.  My mom works in the floral business, and my dad is a sound mixer in movies and commercials.  I have been able to meet some of my favorite actors and artists at my dads job like Kanye West, Common on the video shoot of The Corner, and Will Ferrell on the set of Stranger than fiction.