Tin Man

Politics - the manipulation of people's social beliefs. Religion - the manipulation of people's spiritual beliefs. Both are, yet again, examples of the herd mentality (mine's bigger than yours). When we as a species lose the arrogant assumption (based on fear) that we are somehow special within the universe and not just another animal (a clever one at that) who did good in the class of life, the better off we'll all be. There are billions of galaxies in the universe with billions of stars, do think God/lifeforce/whatever gives a rat's ass what you get up to under the sheets of life? (And why's God and his prophets always male? I'm talking about the big multi-national, fundamentalist religions here) People fear death, difference and change, religions make you feel cozy, safe and wanted. Religions aren't worth the taking of one, single life. Wake up, we're merely God dreaming!

What really puts a smile on my face when the religious kick off with their sanctimonious, self righteous, don't question the Lord/Allah bullshit, is the fact that one day they'll die, and THAT is when they'll find out once and for all what the 'Truth' really is. And deep down they know that particular truth of being alive, and it scares the life out of them. Why do you think 'non-believers' get the verbal and physical crap kicked out of them? Because non-believers are a constant reminder that all religions are just a point of view and have no validity other than that which we give them.

Bugger me sideways, this kind of talk could go on forever! Sod this, I'm off to get on with living and enjoying my life, I'll meet God, or as the Sioux indians call it, the Great Mysterious, when I'm dead.