another weekend come and gone...

Is it weird that I've started to prefer weekdays to weekends?

During the week, I'm free to do my own thing. On the weekends, I have to go to church. Now don't get me wrong, I love God, but I seriously hate religion. I'm so tired and so frustrated with having "religion" shoved over my head. And I am so tired of religion that I'm getting tired of church. Because church is inevitably tied to religion.

I'm sure there are a few good churches out there, churches that are really pure and that are just pursuing God. Churches that are not tying themselves to God - "You can't go to heaven unless you believe in Jesus, oh yea, and you hafta be a member of our church" - or tying other things to God - "You can't go to heaven unless you believe in Jesus, don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs, volunteer at our church 40 hours a week, and let us tell you what to do". I'm sure that good churches exist. But I am so tired of looking at churches, of going to church and visiting churches and finding every church just a disappointing mirror image of the last.