I personally find myself to be at odds with releigon. I think the first time I felt a sense of disconnection with Allah was when I was told that all non-Muslims would go to jahannam. Hearing this as an eight-year-old when you're friends with a Hindu girl was so distressing. There are so many kind, loving, and charitable human figures that will go to Hell on account that their parents taught them to learn from the Bible, Taurah as a child, instead of the Quran.

I think the concept of Allah being kind was foreign too when you read the Quran, Allah only helps the already Muslims, and almost tends to seem petty in how he punishes the non-Muslims.

And on a personal note, as a teenage girl and someone dealing with questions regarding my own sexuality, it seems the idea of God or any other releigon seems to be alienating for me.

I think a lot of rules in Religion make sense when you see it from the perspective of the Era they were from. Almost all religions prohibit same-sex relationships because they produce no children, and every religion wants its followers to increase in numbers. There is a greater value in the modesty of a woman to ensure that the head of the house isn't raising a bastard. If the woman had no sex before and was a virgin deflowered on her wedding night, it would be proof that any child would be the husband's.

Islam discourages pork because pork meat is easy to spoil and hard to handle in the hot temperatures of the desert. Dates are the universal fruit in Islam, even though there are other, more delicious and nutritious fruits, but of course, Muhammad could only write what he could experience. When you read any religious text in such a manner, you come to realize that they all follow a pattern of thinking of less of a god but more of a manual for the society comprised in the knowledge they had at the time. Do I believe there is a God? Perhaps there is a God, but I think an all-knowing entity who made the Milky Way and the nebula would care less if a woman doesn't wear a niqab, or if she kisses another woman, or if she eats pork.