Jesus Rides The #7 train
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By Mickey Z.

Nov 2, 2007, 01:33

I’m riding a rush hour #7 train from Queens to Manhattan when suddenly: I sense danger. My eyes dart to the left. No more than 15 feet from me, a woman is in possession of that common haven for misplaced trust: a Bible.

Some years ago, comparative study of religious attitudes found that nearly 75 percent of Americans literally believe in religious “miracles” and the “devil,” only 9 percent of Americans accepted Darwinian evolution while about half the population believed in divine-guided evolution and 40 percent thought the earth was created about 6,000 years ago.

Nowhere else in the industrial world can such pre-Enlightenment levels as this be found. The development of highly irrational and self-destructive attitudes is one of the consequences of the growing alienation and isolation of people I am wallowing in right now on the #7. Indoctrinated to leave governing to the people who we’re told can actually “handle” it, we’ve almost given up demanding results from our leaders. Instead, we take State Department press releases and New York Times editorials at face value and end up directing our pleas for help to the heavens instead of to the people we voted into office.

But that is the penultimate function of religion, isn’t it? It supplies a “carved-in-stone” set of laws to save us from the hardship of thinking for ourselves. Instead we look to media-created stars like the Pope or the Dalai Lama to confirm our self-doubt.

The followers of any religion are pacified not by having their abject circumstances changed, but by being taught ways to tolerate the intolerable. Organized religion — fueled by all our doubts, fears, and repressed desires — gives some meaning to their perpetual suffering. So, in the name of endless suffering, here are some probing questions for the next bible-thumper you encounter:

Wii,there are actually about 20 million Illegals in the U.S

I'm pretty sure I posted those numbers somewhere before here. It seems our government officials hides their activities under disguises of other events in order to stay out of the limelight. IE such as and not limited to "illegal immigration" and much more. Take the eyes off themselves and have diversions somewhere else.
Search on. I know I sure will.
Kat

Yes, scttrbrain,
you hit the nail
on the head!

That's why Fox News,
the propaganda arm
of the Bush Administration,
airs sex and violence,
as well as what the
latest celebrity is doing.

Because, with diversions
such as this, citizens
don't have to think
about real problems,
like why their wages
aren't keeping up
with inflation,
why their government
lies to them all the time,
or what's happening in
the rest of the world.