Religion or Philosophy - or both?

Hello sweeties! Tomorrow will be my last final test (religion) and then my upper secondary school will be over. I hope everything will go fine... Future looks exciting and scary at the same time but I think it's a good thing. I have applied to the Art Academy of Pekka Halonen and I will apply to three different universities: 

NUMBER ONE

University of Jyväskylä 

 History of Art or just History

NUMBER TWO

University of Tampere

History

NUMBER THREE

University of Helsinki

History

I change my future plans like almost every week these are not 100% true. I know that I really, really would wanna go to study in Jyväskylä because I love that town very much and my uncle lives there so I wouldn't be completely lost. 

But anyway today's topic is about religion - don't worry nothing like hitting you with the bible or something like that. I live in Finland where the religion is very personal thing. We don't really go to church every sunday or pray to the Lord before dinner. Actually I don't even believe in God and I think Jesus was just a man who tried to reform Judaism - kind of like Martin Luther or Jean Calvin did for  Christianity. I am a very rational person and I think the Bible's historical context is very interesting. But nobody should take it literally! It's a book written by people who lived in entire different world and era. So don't take it too seriously. 

Less than a week ago in our Finnish finals we had to pick the best parts from different religions. My religion was some kind of mixture of Buddhism and Wiccanism. Hopefully I get good points because it was so fun to do it. Here is five life rules of my religion:

1. Protect nature and animals

2. Respect your culture and others (religion, art, history, language etc.)

3. Don't break human rights

4. Improve yourself

5. Just be human - not man or woman. The sex doesn't have to define you.

I think I am very idealist but also bit naive (I am still young though) but I think these rules are good for everybody. There are no leader or prophet in my religion (except maybe Jamie Fraser aka Sam Heughan, Jack Sparrow aka Johnny Depp and Holly Golightly aka Audrey Hepburn) and I think it is more like a philosophy than a religion. The difference is very small. 

But that was this day's a topic. I think religions are incredible interesting and I love, love, love religion classes almost as much as I love history, art and textile work.