Ash Wednesday

[Terrance]

MalignD

>If?  This really is the crux:  that this 2000-year-old fairy tale, this self-evident >and ludicrous crock of shit, still has purchase on the twenty-first century mind.  And >in the US, perhaps more than ever, influences political decision-making and social >policy.



Religions are quite resilient. The great religions represent some of the
most enduring forms of world perception. Even in the Secularized Western
Nation States like the USA, religion governs the way in which the
majority of the people interpret the world.  Adapting  contemporary
styles of philosophy and political thought to their fundamental
doctrines, the great religions of the world continue to grow and change
with the world. 
The fact that the Christian fairy tale is a crock of shit is really
beside the point. It doesn't matter that there is no god, the influence
of religion on the lives of most men and women in the world, and thus on
the political bodies of the world, has little or nothing to do with the
belief or actual existence of god or gods.