Witches Burning
I’ve been thinking about the things that get me down, and I keep coming back to this religion thing. It’s enough to ruin a man’s day!
Take the poor farmer with wheat on the field that makes his neighbours green with envy. Some would say “Mr. Farmer, God has been good to your fields.” If he’s a quick witted man, he might smile and reply “You should have seen how He treated them when I wasn’t around.”
Standing at a meter long casket the gathered often ask why. The priest comforts the believers by reminding them that the only way forward is to have faith in God – that it was His plan, and we cannot possibly try to understand it.
The following Sunday the same priest will stand tall and tell his congregation exactly what God thinks of unbelievers, pre-marital sex, abortion, Harry Potter, Twilight, homosexuals, and those that stayed home in their comfortable beds.
Just once I’d like to hear a priest with an answer when it really matters. When death, disease, famine, or war are the subject.
“I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years past been working to undo the botched job your God has made.” *
* Emma Goldman
