Intelligence Vs. Religion

I am honestly caught between a almost....impossible to answer dilemma, I've come to realize that as your intelligence rises, your devotion to religion shrinks, it's as if it is impossible to be both religious AND smart I remember when I was younger I was lead by religion alone like a drone "we exist because god wants us to exist" but now.....I've grown to dislike religious zealots, How is it possible to believe that if god is indeed as kind and as loving as they make him out to be why is it that every religion is "wrong" besides Christianity or Catholicism for some reason because I don't believe in either of the upper religions I am going to burn for eternity? I don't quite agree with this....and The zealots aren't so loving either if you need proof simply ask them their opinion on gay marriage and relationships they'll reply "It's an abomination because bible passage yada yada yada" so am I right? do you have to be mentally dysfunctional to be a truly religious individual?

Religion and Money

Something happened this weekend that's got me so thrown that I can't help but sit in class and get the immense urge to..BLOG IT! Now then here's the situation, I work at Sedanos a supermarket near my school, I am a cashier so I'm fairly close to the entrance and see all sorts of people, Good people, bastards, assholes, cheap pricks that buy everything in the store and expect it to be under $20, but you get the idea here is what happened, it was an ordinary day nothing odd had happened so I was waiting for it to come (because something odd always has to happen at the supermarket) and a customer told me he did not want his crock pot cause he misread the price, now in Sedanos we're a bit behind in trust so a cashier cannot pull a Void, only a supervisor has the authority so I had to yell into the air "I need a void" and no supervisor was nearby so I was stuck in the time between when a supervisor comes to give the void and the end of my cashiering so I was basically getting a semi-free break, when all of a sudden a woman enters the super market and raises her hand yelling at the top of her lungs and says "I would like to make an announcement to all of you, that Jesus IS lord and he will help us through these dark times" I simply thought that she was a church goer and wanted to spread the word, freedom of speech to her I say, she then goes to the store and gets a few things comes to my register and begins to check out I then speak to her "Nice little announcement there" she said "I'm not really religious I just hope that repeating bible passages will get me some help paying the bills money is tight right now" I was stunned she was only acting religious and preaching out of greed and fear, I then began to ask myself how many more are there like her? I mean I'm no Zealot or die hard believer either but I wouldn't preach to a group of people unless I believed what I was saying so I am still trying to figure out why, people get more religious when their wallets start getting thinner and times get tougher?!