This is Not Gorak

(updated)

An agnostic reads the bible and has the obvious epiphany..

I began the Bible as a hopeful, but indifferent, agnostic. I wished for a God, but I didn't really care. I leave the Bible as a hopeless and angry agnostic. I'm brokenhearted about God.

After reading about the genocides, the plagues, the murders, the mass enslavements, the ruthless vengeance for minor sins (or none at all), and all that smiting—every bit of it directly performed, authorized, or approved by God—I can only conclude that the God of the Hebrew Bible, if He existed, was awful, cruel, and capricious. He gives us moments of beauty—such sublime beauty and grace!—but taken as a whole, He is no God I want to obey and no God I can love.

The odd thing is that the reader didn't know from the outset that the bible is merely fiction, written by men of those ages. Of course it's disgusting and violent. That's what those times demanded of an uncivilized society.

The strange part is that billions of people through the ages have bought into the scam. Well.. strange isn't the best word.. more like sad.

In the Land of the Loon, up is down, and black is white.. and they'll kill you if you don't agree.

/update

An update on the continued Catholic abuse of children..

Doctors performed the abortion Wednesday, saying they feared the pregnancy could kill her because of her slim frame. Upon learning of the abortion, the regional archbishop excommunicated the doctors, as well as the girl's mother. He did not excommunicate the step-father, saying the crime he is alleged to have committed, although deplorable, was not as bad as ending a fetus's life.

Makes sense.. coz.. you know.. the Catholic church can't really say anything about child rape.

It still seems odd to me that people want to separate the religion from the church. Because the religion is just a bunch of made up bullshit, the church is the religion.

In each church, there is massive corruption and evil. There are no exceptions. Would be nice if those fuckers went and got real jobs like everyone else.

/update 2

Fortunately, there is some good news today;

A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out o of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all.

Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990, according to the American Religious Identification Survey.

Northern New England surpassed the Pacific Northwest as the least religious region, with Vermont reporting the highest share of those claiming no religion, at 34 percent. Still, the study found that the numbers of Americans with no religion rose in every state.

Claiming "no religion" is not the same as claiming to be an atheist. I really don't give a shit what anybody believes.. Reducing the levels of religious identification can only be a good thing. Hopefully in my lifetime we can get to a 50% non-identification level. That would be nice.