It's all ridiculous though. It's not that being a Muslim isn't ridiculous but being a Jew is, everything is ridiculous. Being a Buddhist is ridiculous, being a Christian is ridiculous, being a Hindu is ridiculous, being in anything is ridiculous, you're a human being. And if you attach yourself and your mind to any ideology, you're gonna be on a road. And that road may or may not lead you in a good direction. But you're gonna stay on that road if you're attached to an ideology and, it can be a terrible road; it can be a road of circumcising your daughter's clitorus because that's a tradition. You know, these crazy nuts in Africa that cut holes on their lip and stretch them out to put plates on them, why is that? Because they got on a road, and they stuck with that road regardless of rational thinking, they didn't use rational thinking at all. They're just adapted to a predetermined pattern of behavior that makes life so much more simple.
And that's what every single religion is, the problem is: no one knows. You cannot know. You can have your own beautiful, personal experiences, you can actually be the person that was touched by god. But when you start yelling and ranting that other people have to follow your lead, the world is gonna end, Christians are gonna be taken away, I know you're full of bullshit and you know you're full of bullshit. And the real problem is: we can't say it. Because everyone has this religious freedom, the freedom to express yourself. Even if you're expressing yourself with nonsense; nonsense that helps scare lonely, sad people lock onto that nonsense so they feel like they're apart of something. I mean that's what religion is; it preys on people whose lives are boring. So, it's all nuts.
And it's not like my stuff's cool and your stuff's not, and it's not that yoga is the answer, or drugs are the answer - there's just questions. For a lot of people religion can give you some inspiration. But there comes a certain point and time where you need to pop the training wheels off and recognize that all of this morality you've developed is good because it's good to treat other people good. It's good to treat other people the way you want yourself to be treated. It's like the golden rule and there's a reason for it, and that reason is: we're all connected in some strange way that we don't totally understand.
And unless you are good to people around you; unless you are kind, friendly, warm and loving, you are not gonna enjoy this life, you're just not. You're gonna have problems everywhere you go and you're gonna be problems everywhere you go. You gotta find a way to enjoy this life. And it's not because of Allah, it's not because of Jesus, it's not because of anybody that may or may not have ever existed, it's because that's how you fit better in the world, that's how you stay positive. And it doesn't have to be some bullshit written five thousand years ago on animal skins. That doesn't have to be the golden rule because it's old, you know that's dumb.