Sunday, March 3, 2013
Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus: Just keep your idiotic religion out of MY life, please.
I'm neither a closet Catholic, nor a (hopefully) recovering Catholic like ao many millions. I'm a confirmed atheist, who would prefer to see the Catholic church collapse from its own corrupt burden. I'm privileged to have been raised by two atheist, agnostic, pagans, or whatever they called themselves at varying stages. My mom was raised Methodist, until she, along with my grandmother actually, left the church for good. Grandma said the congregation had become "a number of jackasses competing to see which one could bray the loudest." My dad was raised "reform" Jewish or something along those lines - he was forced to get Bar Mitzvahed and read Hebrew in a Brooklyn synagogue. He hated his theological studies, as it took him away from his favorite youthful pastimes, like Stickball and various acts of petty juvenile delinquency. I pretty much despise organized religion, viewing it as an anachronism that hinders human progress more than almost any other phenomenon.
However, I'm not trying to stop them from their folly, even if I could, which of course isn't the case. After all, the First Amendment allows for Freedom OF Religion, as well as my freedom to be left alone by millions of religious whack-jobs, who want to preach their hallucinatory nonsense to everyone else night and day. Me? I just insist that religion be kept out of the public realm: There must be NO religious test for higher office, as in: "I, Barack Obama do solemnly swear, to uphold, preserve..., and defend the Constitution of the United States... so help me GOD;" NO "in God We Trust" on the money; NO "Ten Commandments" on the courthouse walls; NO "One Nation Under GOD" in the Pledge of Allegiance (which is no more than a gratuitous bit of jingoistic idiocy anyway) and NO "I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth... so help me "GOD," when witnesses take the stand.
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