He had done his homework about the preposterous statements that are part of the regular routine in a number of religions. The result?  We see a fairly startling collection of situations where people who are supposed to be authorities come up looking completely foolish.  The unspoken conclusion is perhaps that it’s time to call a spade a spade.   In particular, he exposed the stories and beliefs that were probably meant to be metaphorical or instructive and were somehow transformed into dogmatic truth.   

My first reaction was to think it was all great fun to jack these people up with their own foolishness.  Then I began to wonder –  who does he think his audience is?  People who are on the fence can perhaps take heart that they are not alone.  But what of the rest?   Those who accept the stuff as it is given are certainly incapable of hearing a word.

When the whole situation is emptied out on the table, it looks pretty grim.  There is clearly no room for the lame “your truth / my truth” compromise.  People eat up all the phony stories and get all Rah-Rah about their team.  This would be fine, except then people who don’t look or believe the same get messed with.     My recent favorite is abortion doctor Dr. George Tiller in Wichita, Kansas gunned down inside his own church as a result of the “Pro-Life” mind-virus. Of course, all the Pro-Life bigwigs rush for photo-ops to distance themselves from what is, after all,  the fruit of their labor. 

In the absence of objective verification, we are all free to choose what we believe – that’s America.  In the end, all my belief doesn’t add up to truth for the next guy.  I fail to see why that is so difficult to comprehend.  

All this medieval stuff needs to be shitcanned or at least retreaded.   As much as we like to revile our strawman concept of communist ideology, I now imagine they saw the problem and took the first option.

 It might be nice if more people in this world could think clearly.