I think it's odd but it feels natural in an artificial sort of way. I feel like an off version of a princess waiting for a prince. I'm not up in a tower but I'm on an island. I don't have long hair form which to climb up but I do have a ladder that takes me to the roof of my house often. I don't have a voice that will attract animals to help me clean my house but I do have sisters who don't make cleaning the house easier because they leave their clothes and dishes everywhere XP. Even though its such an off shot, I still feel like a princess waiting for my prince. I'm terribly shy and I try to reach out and search for my partner but things aren't working. I've decided to take a different path to finding my special someone and it's to improve who I am, send out as many signals as I can that I am "here" and hopefully someone will receive my invitation and maybe that person will be the one.

Oh and I'm not saying that I'm limiting the prince to be only a guy, my invitations will go out to everyone (within my age prefferences.)

does believing in a god help you go through your day better than if someone didn't believe in a god?

If the religion promotes healthy life choices then that's good but then what about openness to ideas of other religions?
Is it the religion that is to be blamed or is it the practitioners of the religion if someone is harmed in the name of "God?"

One could argue that it is the practitioner who is to be blamed for the harm but doesn't the practitioner live by their religion and that religion? Then there are the teachers of the religion.

I know that to get something good in life something must be sacrificed. I was once asked to make a crown of thorns and I was questioning my instructor. I spoke out to the instructor and said that "If we made a crown of thorns we'd most likely get cuts, you're telling us to cut ourselves?" I was taught to never purposely harm myself and that to harm a creation of God was a sin and my religious instructor was telling me that sacrifices should be made and that Jesus had sacrificed himself for us, the least we could do was sacrifice for our religion. Maybe he's right, maybe he's wrong. It's hard for me to tell.

If it is correct to sacrifice one's self for religion how far is too far? Maybe I'm just being biased and thinking about the Muslim extremists and the suicide bombers only. If that is the case then I should research more on Muslim culture. When I get the time to I think I shall check it out.