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Love your new landscaping! Is that a lemon tree?

ha! yessssss…... next year, fo sho!

Here’s the thing, Jeremy, since you missed my point entirely. In the video that began this thing you used someone you sneer upon as an inferior being to illustrate your contempt for believers. I countered with a really smart person, who in no way fits your silly stereotype of mindless believers in God, and you didn’t like that because it disturbs your self-serving, judgmental, cherry-picking little conceit. And here’s the other thing—you deal entirely in stereotypes, as I mentioned above, and not in human beings. You belittled that pathetic woman but what do you know about her? Is she a good neighbor who brings hot food to a family struggling with financial problems? Is she kind to children? What do you care? What do you know about that Pope? Mightn’t he be a good and gentle man who reached out to suffering humanity? What do you care? You’ve already judged him by of his clothes and furniture. Wow! Are you ever deep! And about those clothes—did it ever occur to you that someone, probably someone who worked long and hard for a living, spun that thread, wove that cloth, tailored those robes, and fashioned that “throne” and was able to put bread on the table and a roof over his family’s head? So what, right? Sounds more to me that you’re the one who’s afraid of what you don’t know. More interested in thrones and costumes than in humans. Stereotypes are so much easier to deal with—so simple, so manageable. True courage, real curiosity, and pure honesty—open to where truth leads, even if it’s outside the steel bear trap that’s snapped shut in your head. There’s no honesty in stereotypes and assumptions. They’re barbed wire fences keeping THEM out and YOU safe.

the famed B.T.Gs. stick!!

Religious “thinkers” often like to haul up Einstein quotes… but I am not sure why. To prove what? Smart people can have faith?

This “argument” can go on forever, because your “arguments” don’t need proof. If you believe something exists, for you it does, and you can point to the similarly deluded and say “See! they think the same thing!!!”

There is a transcendent beauty in existence that your religious self-deception does not allow you to experience because it means letting go of the myths you depend on to structure your life. “If Jesus isn’t real, then what is?”

And there it is: you’re afraid of what you don’t know, and that fear of the unknown is the source of all myths. You need the myths to explain away the darkness, and to give you hope in this “confusing” world.

Your mythic worldview is simply no longer adequate, not open enough to encompass our ever expanding perspective of our place in the universe. You have to fight back the creeping awareness that you spent too long dreaming about heaven, and not enough time living honestly.

I don’t need faith, belief, or anything external to directly experience the pure, simple, beautiful truth of what it is to exist. Direct experience is not science and it’s not intelligence: it is what is. You don’t need a church, a leader, or a book.

You need only courage, curiosity, and honesty.

Anyways, I am more interested in the pope’s golden throne than his Jesus costume.

Ever wonder who pays for the golden throne that every religion’s leader sits upon?

Whatcha talkin’ about, Willis?!

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