Something bothers me. In the continuing debate among agnostics and believers, creationists and evolutionists, moral and immoral that we are reading in the Daily, something is being left out. That something is the fundamental right of all United States citizens to hold any belief, or no belief, as we so choose.

This is a right many of us take for granted, especially Christian fundamentalists. They would say to us, “What’s wrong with a little religion in your Sunday morning? What’s wrong with a prayer in school? What’s wrong with praising His name and spreading the Word to others?”

I’ll tell you what’s wrong. It doesn’t mesh with my beliefs, and I don’t appreciate Christianity being shoved down my throat by people who think it’s for my own good. Iowa State seems to be crawling with Christian activists, so those of us who choose to find our own belief in God to be lacking are a persecuted minority.

People always seem to want to invite me to Bible readings, church lock-ins and Sunday services. These things bore me and do nothing to change my lack of belief in a book written over 2,000 years ago and rewritten by no less than a dozen states and governments. How can you believe His word is pure, even if you believe in Him? The word bible itself means “collection of stories”; I take that literally. Jesus Christ is a fiction and so is everything from Genesis to the end.

Steve ‘DJ Flash’ Juon

Senior

Pre-Journalism and Mass

Communication