Gotta luv it.  Consumrism America when its back is against the wall shops for faith to avoid the stark truth.

ChaoticGood, I love your wit!

ChaoticGood…I’m encouraged to see posts like yours that give me a sense others out there like me are now or are becoming aware of the negative effects of religion and its stranglehold on common sense, logic and reason. If only all those folks who consider themselves both religious(or spiritual) and intelligent understood the inherent dichotomy and contradiction therein, perhaps the road to recovery could be as simple as taking out the trash!
The struggle continues…we must persist!

Just because humans evolved from apes doesn’t mean we’re not “spiritual.” I saw a chimp making the sign-of-the-cross once.

You are correct Chaoticgood, most of what we would describe as “behaving morally” is based on two things—being fair and doing no harm.  It is hard for me to imagine any person who is trying to be fair to another and who is trying to avoid doing harm, committing an immoral act. Religion is just a bunch of rules to placate the power elite.

I like the religious chaos we live in—it must be close to that experienced in
Hellenistic and Roman times, which were generally good. I can’t imagine anyone
would prefer to live in medieval Europe or the Middle East once Christianity and
Islam destroyed all other choices. One Hellenistic attitude towards religion is
similar to the concept of insurance or an investment that if you pray or sacrifice to
enough gods and goddesses then surely one will ‘pay off.’ Childish, perhaps—
but maybe this is an age of children.

Amen, ChaoticGood.  Can we imagine the headline: Americans
begin embracing the search for rational explanations before
they believe things, (especially impossible, supernatural things)
not whining about the inviolability of their faith when confronted
with contradictory evidence?