Disclaimer: Don't read this if you think your going to get some kind of philosophical insight.
I mean: Why do we need a god?
Once upon a time it may have been in our best interest to believe in an imaginary playmate (if we didn't, we'd get a severely torturous ass-whoopin' to correct us of our errant ways; no thinking for yourself during the Inquisition. They didn't call it the Dark Ages for nothing).
But why carry on bowing down, kow-towing to an establishment that perpetuates a myth? Today we have ourselves a laissez-faire Inquisition. Where do these evangelicals get their balls anyway? A cracker-jack box? Bring back the Grand Inquisitor. They really knew how to turn the thumb-screws, damnit! These piss ant tvangels haven't got a clue of how to "convert" people. Pat Robertson? Pshhahh! Jerry Falwell? God rest his soul...in his own hell, I say whatever.
Modern bibble-thumping, pulpit preachers don't have a leg to stand on for this simple fact: THE INQUISITION FAILED! The likes of the Salem Witch Trials failed. Plain and simple. People have learned that the extreme (literal) version of their faith really doesn't hit the fan like it used to. Because the Enlightenment has ushered in a cadre of intellectuals the likes of which can't be discarded out of hand. Why? I know why. Because they have produced some of the most advanced principles conducive to humanity since...never. Einstein, Darwin, Nietzche, Marx, and just about all of the Founding Fathers of this country have put forth ideas that fly in the face of the "god" idea, especially in the sphere of public discourse.
Why God? Why the uproar that "god is taken out of the schools" and all that bull shit? It's out of the schools and out of the public mind's eye because it doesn't hit the fucking fan like it used to. When religion was fresh excrement it would hit the fan with gratuitous splatter and get all over everything and you had better not be standing around when it happened. Now? Now it's dried, flaky dung. Because it's old and no longer viable and we have people still playing with this poo like it's still fresh mud-pie but in reality it's crumbling in their fingers before their very eyes.
Oh well, this was a nice rant. Thanks for reading.
