The human race is doomed unless and until it wakes up to the reality of dead weight religious evil, since, to use our children's language, it has gone over to the dark side.
Please do not read this as hyperbole or jive. The churches have abandoned us. Period. And a few token remarks by Pope X, Y, or Z mean nothing. Judge them by their fruits indeed. Most Americans in one way or another are dying in a ditch, but the institutional priests (of all religions) keep averting their gaze.
The moral, social power of religion could (and should) be awesome. It should be in the face of the evil which is murdering America. But, to borrow a phrase of T. S. Elliot, religion isn't even letting us die with a bang, but with a whimper and we should NEVER FORGET IT.
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W. Christopher Epler (Bill)
<http://theliberationofrealism.blogspot.com/>
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