A clarification

The years are rolling by for me, too quickly to keep up, really. I feel like I'm in one of those booths with money flying around, only instead of money, I'm grasping at time itself. I try to live each moment, because you know, we only get a handful of moments in our brief existence on this dizzying planet. But you can't live each moment; mankind has chosen a rather wretched way of existing with its rigid system of schooling during the years of innocence, the indentured servitude of working during the prime years of life, and leaving only the decaying years of agedness to be relatively free.

I see why the world is falling toward religion. The dearth of spirituality on our planet is rather maddening as most people embark upon their senseless material quests. I understand what they seek. We all need to give some sort of meaning to our existence, don't we? We need to know why we have to go through all of this - it's the curse of reason, no matter how unreasonable religion can seem.

I don't hate religion, as I have been accused; on the contrary, I find it a necssary part of any functional society, as countless others before me have well explained, including our country's Deist founders. It is how people use religion that I have a problem with. Religion is a very personal and intimate thing - it is a person's soul we are talking about here - the essence of individual being. While fundies go around throwing hysterical fits every time they see too much skin, the true pornography is the gross abuse of religion we see on a quotidien basis on our pathetic little planet, and not one religion is excluded from this abuse.

The latest example of abuse of religion is political activity of churches. Fortunately, the IRS, normally a bastion for intrusion on individuals, is finally making itself useful and is investigating these cheaters. You want to play politics, religious right? PAY YOUR TAXES.

People who try to force their religion on others are committing spiritual rape.