Fandoms: 21th Century religion or just overreaction? god knows...

You know, when I started this blog and named it "Atheism and Religion are the same", I never expected to talk about religion. But then I remembered my early days on the internet when I was young and naive, when I used to have faith in humanity.

Until I realized that some people out there are kinda... complicated. Because every time I search for TV shows, movies or anything that resembles graphic entertainment most of the time found something like this:

It's okay... NOW you can let this picture slowly sink in your mind and haunt you in your nightmares

And that's not me seacrching for creepy stuff, pictures like this are highly used in forums, blogs and bla bla bla. My point is: Why people love to embarassing themselves in this way? because this kind of behavior is not very normal according to society standards. But for some reason people still praise this weirdness with the excuse that is funny.

And don't get me wrong, I love bizarre comedy when is done right. But sometimes it is taken too seriously. Resulting in fights about franchises where fans debate about things that doesn't have any relevance about the subject matter.

And that's why I make this question, because internet, for being a place where supposedly nothing is sacred, it certainly has the hability of awaken the most obsessive-compulsive behaviour of our own kind.

Religion exists because we always try to figure out what is the meaning of our existence. Some people think that God will reward those people for being good, tolerate and help the others. But when we let people that has very little connection with the modern world, control our spiritual beliefs through rules and standards with whom disagree, then we lose the way and divided our creeds. All of this leading us to debates that never gets anywhere and are just as pointless as the internet flamewars.

But: It is right to put internet fandoms and religion in the same same category? Yes and No...

While the behavior of both can be similar, you can argue that conflict and disagrrement is part of our human nature, and hence people always going to find excuses to fight, and when that happens they usually prefer to blame the subject of discussion instead of taking the responsability of their acts, but that depends on the person, I know that not all the folks in the world are evil.

And the religion is there not only to give answers, but also to teach us how to be responsible, that's why there are rules like go to church every sunday morning or try to resist our desires to do bad things. It's all about commitment with ourselves, our beliefs and the people we love.

Fandoms works in a different way. The difference is we can choose the things that we want to follow without any big compromise or rules that define the way we praise them. A christian can be fan of video games because it's enertainment, and it's not intended to changes their personal beliefs. But when that person dedicates his entire life to play games, talk about games, dress like video game characters and dedicate full hours to argue with other fans, that's pushing it into religious extremes, and therefore that person is no better that a priest that punish himself for no good reason.

So, what's my final veredict? I said that is important to recognize our flaws, so we can improve ourselves a little bit, and also let the people decide what they want. I know that sounds too obvious, but when the day that we actually follow this advice and start to take responsability of our actions comes, you may realize that for most of mankind it wasn't

And that's all I needed to say. Live long and prosper.