The image of God appears in many texts, but more importantly appears inside everyone. Ever person on the planet has a certain outlook on God and although many people have similar views everyone still disagrees because of minuscule details. This combined with every organized religion preaching that they are right has forged this planet, into a bomb that's ready to detonate. I myself am not sure if people ever really have stopped and thought about God (logically), and what it means to them. Think about it, 96% of people on Earth believe in some sort of an all-powerful God. It knows what we all are doing every second of the day. It knows that I typed this essay, and it knows that you are reading it right now. It even knows what the other six billion people on the planet are doing this very second...pretty amazing, huh? Organized religion has contaminated who and what we are for far to long. It closes far to many doors in the mind, which restrains our growth as a species. We are told what to believe, and expected to say nothing, when our faith is changed without our permission. This is not a recent occurrence; it's been going on for thousands of years. Religion, whether it was a pagan tribe 10,000 years ago or you today, has negatively affected every person on this planet today.
             You may now be thinking that I am an atheist, however, much to your surprise I am not. I was baptized into the Lutheran Church, as a newborn, but I do not affiliate with them any longer. Now if you were to ask me my faith I would say I am Agnostic or a person with out a religion who still has faith in a higher power. My Father's family was
             and still are a religious people. Luckily for me, my Dad moved out of state before I was born, and I was not subjected to the torture of church, that often. I did have to go to church while we were visiting my family, so I do know a decent amount of the Lutheran faith, and everything else I know, I've l...