If your religion makes you better,

more patient and more kind,

if your religion brings you strength,

and stimulates your mind,

then you deserve the peace and happiness

your god has helped you find.

But if it makes you think that you

are more than someone else,

if you think that it gives you the right

to condemn someone to hell,

then what good has it really done?

Who benefits from that?

Would the world really be any worse

if we were to live without

all the prejudice and persecution

brought on by this endless fight

over whose god is the real one,

over who is wrong or right?

I’ve no doubt that faith can be useful

many people it has helped.

It must be nice to count on something

that is stronger than yourself.

Well I don’t know what’s true or not

and I won’t pretend I do

but I don’t need a book to tell me

what I should or shouldn’t do.

I think that deep inside us all

we know what’s truly right.

If we could each live by our own hearts

there would be no more need to fight,

over who is good, and who is bad,

and who gets to make the rules.

If we let everyone be who they are

and let each person choose

to do what makes them happy

and live a life that’s free from fear.

Why should it bother you anyway?

Why would you even care?