religion...again

 how powerful would you be if you could promise everlasting...whatever...at a date undetermined, in a place unknown, forever, for everyone...provided your "believers" made a small contribution today - towards, of course, a guarantee of...whatever.  that's religion in a nutshell.  [and just to make sure one made that little contribution, you could promise trials beyond belief...forever... if one didn't make it.]  it's the purest form of bribery with the added kicker that everyone's scared to death of dying and wants to be assured he or she will be comfortable when gone.

and don't give me that crap about "loving thy fellow man."  more poor souls have been killed in the name of one religion or the other than all the world wars put together...and will continue to be until the world ends.

too bad the discovery of the higgs boson didn't produce the creation of a black hole into which the earth disappeared - as some predicted.  of course, that discovery - that of the so-called "god particle" - puts additional credence to  the preeminence of science over religion.  you can look it up.  believe me, you can look it up.  try looking up the reality of heaven or hell.

i can promise you more when i get further worked up about those hypocritical sons of bitches who run institutions like the roman church and try to cover up the next fucking scandal [nuns, perhaps] and i mean that literally.  the very idea that you could convert a basic human condition - sex drive - through celibacy is enough to make one puke and flies in the face of logic, never mind walking on water, loaves and fishes, etc.  bah...it's stupid.

[wait 'til i get started on the creationists and the scientologists with their dinosaurs and frozen people.]