Why I Hate Religion But LOVE Jesus

Religion sucks, lets just be honest
Oh ya this poem might offend some of you, actually nah that’s a promise.
One reason I hate religion is because they usually choose
To propogate a moralistic gay hating republican jesus you see on fox news
If religion is so great, why has it started so many wars?
Why does it build huge churches, but fails to feed the poor?
Tells single moms God doesn’t love them if they’ve ever been divorced
Yet God in the Old Testament actually calls the religious people whores
but before you accuse me, realize those are his words not mine,
He says, “Israel has played the whore in their actions!” Psalm 106 verse 39
Religion preaches grace, but another thing they practice,
Tend to ridicule Gods people, they did it to John the Baptist,
Cant fix their problems, so they try to mask it,
Not realizing that’s just like sprayin perfume on a casket
Because the problem with religion is that it never gets to the core,
It’s just behavior modification, like a long list of chores.
Let’s dress up the outside, make things look nice and neat,
Its funny that’s what they do to mummies, while the corpse rots underneath,
Now I ain’t judging I’m just saying be careful of putting on a fake look,
Because there’s a problem if people only know that you’re a Christian by that little section on your facebook
In every other aspect of life you know that logics unworthy
Its like saying you play for the seahawks just because you bought a jersey
But see I played this game too; no one seemed to be on to me,
I was acting like church kid, while addicted to pornography.
A slave to lust i started calling girls sluts and hoes,
Even worse telling them “I Love You”, just so they’d take off their clothes.
I’d go to church on Sunday, but on saturday getting faded,
Acting as if I was simply created to have sex and get wasted.
I didn’t actually love Jesus I just played the game, didn’t think I needed to change,
Didn’t let the cross transform me, I just wanted to wear it on my chain.
Spend my whole life putting on this façade of neatness,
But now that I know Jesus, I boast in my weakness.
If grace is water, then the church should be an ocean,
Cuz its not a museum for good people, it’s a hospital for the broken
I no longer have to hide my failures I don’t have to hide my sin,
Because my salvation doesn’t depend on me, it depends on him.
because when I was Gods enemy and certainly not a fan,
God looked down on me and said, “I want that man!”
Which is so different from religious people, which is why Jesus called em fools
Don’t you see hes so much better than just following some rules?
Because religious people say don’t smoke, don’t drink, and no having sex
But Jesus says psh enjoy it all! In its proper context

Now back to the topic, one thing I think is vital to mention,
How Jesus and religion are on opposite spectrums,
One is the work of God one is a man made invention,
One is the cure and one is the infection.
I used to think I had to do good for God to love me, I thought that’s who he was,
But I realized I can rest, because in Jesus he already does.
Because religion is diametrically opposed to the gospel
One says try to earn heaven, but Jesus receive freely, earning is impossible,
Because Religion says do, Jesus says done.
Religion says slave, Jesus says son,
Religion puts you in shackles but Jesus sets you free.
Religion makes you blind, but Jesus makes you see.
Religion only attacks the behavior, when Jesus attacks the seed,
Religion picks off the bad fruit, when Jesus just plants a new tree.

This is what makes religion and Jesus two different clans,
Religion is man searching for God, but Christianity is God searching for man.
Which is why salvation is freely mine, forgiveness is my own,
Not based on my efforts, but Jesus’ obedience alone.
Because he took the crown of thorns, and blood that dripped down his face
He took what I deserved, that’s why we call it grace.
While being murdered he yelled “father forgive them, they know not what they do”,
Because when he was dangling on that cross, he was thinking of you
He paid for all your sin, and then buried it in the tomb,
Which is why im kneeling at the cross now saying come on there’s room
So know I hate religion, in fact I literally resent it
Because when Jesus cried It is finished, I believe He meant it.