Ash Wednesday

[MalignD at aol.com]

> 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.>>
> 
 "Has little or nothing to do with"?   

This is certainly false.   Religion might be just as pernicious were the 
above true, but it isn't. 

<<Competing crocks of shit can't hold a candle to it.>>

What's that supposed to mean?   In terms of what?   

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