one and the same

The patriarchy is religion.

no blinders

Let me never be the kind of horse that doesn’t rear up against the blinders of faith.

two thorns

The world would be at peace but for tribes and religions.

scary stuff

You live on earth, and yet the religious try to frighten you with their stories of hell.

heaven's sake

People believe in heaven because they have experienced real happiness, or because they never have.

faith debased

A religion that lacks proof of its god can’t begin to be ethical.

insufficient belief

The fanatic believer proves the vacancy of his/her religion by being unable to leave the rest of us alone.

distance runners

The Boston Marathon terrorists made what was always a great race into a secular crusade.

juggernaut structure

Religion is a superstition with a superstructure.

failed step

Stumbled on the first step up to the temple.

end of days

Today a few people believe will be the end of the world. They feel confident they will be ‘raptured’, taken up to their version of heaven. These people are by & large fundamentalists. They believe the Bible (in the language they are reading it) is the literal word of God (verbatim). These fundamentalists calculate the end of the world through this text, the Bible. But either the word problems God composed are too hard for humans, or God was not really very good at math, because the fundamentalists never seem to calculate the correct date for the end of the world. Whether it’s the inscrutable words or the fuzzy math, it shows the fallacy of believing that one knows what the Bible means.

known by your army

It’s been said that a language is a dialect with an army. If so, then perhaps a religion is a cult with an army.

final things

Religion’s greatest lie is to deny the finite.