religion?

an ABC News article says that Gen Z men are leaving religion while Gen Z women are joining. Or vice versa, I don't care either way.

the other day a friend asks me,

does my impending, very definite, death, change my mind about religion?

no. definitely not.

here's a quote from that ABC article:

  Going to places like the Golden Temple and the Taj Mahal really opened my eyes on the power of religion, 

yep. religion is all about POWER.

We could kill you now but we would rather threaten you with eternal hell and damnation.

there's an old poem which begins, The Assyrians came down like a wolf on the fold...

by the end of the poem, every assyrian is dead. plague or Dysentry, most likely.

the "winning" army claims this mass extermination as proof that god is on their side.

so their god ... a magical creature with absolute power to exterminate

... is not able -- not willing -- to build a simple wall.

nope. mass slaughter is its only answer.

there is no way that i would worship

... or even respect

... such a vicious creature.

religions begin as a simple way to reinforce power.

thou shalt not kill, fair enough.

until

... thousands of years later

... yes, thou shalt continue to kill the tribes who dared to challenge our god-backed power to kill.

btw...

there are plenty of dietary directions in religious books. a good idea, very useful for the days before soap and water.

i read one section which provides instructions on cooking meat.

mostly: all the best bits of meat will be given to the priests...

well,

i wonder which powerful priests wrote those instructions.

I just naturally resist power and coercion. Religion is all about power and coercion.Backed by vicious threats.

death does worry me.

but my only interest in an after-life is to ask Houdini,

so, why have you not come back yet?

You can not Back into the Future
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Dr Nick Lethbridge
Consulting Dexitroboper