Where do we go for answers?

[Note: We most emphatically DO NOT trust in any god!]


So where do we go for answers?

When we need facts, unbiased information, technical data, the TRUTH in so far as we can know it:


Where do we go to learn about our world?

Where do we go to learn about the people of the world - the history, cultures, beliefs, and particular practices of these people?

Where do we go to learn of biology, anthropology, psychology, anatomy?

Where do we go to learn of math in all its varied forms?

Where do we go to learn about our historical underpinnings?

Where do we go to learn of the universe, the cosmos, the stars, the beginning of life?


When we need something done, to whom do we turn?

When we seek to discover new drugs and new cures to treat the various ailments that afflict the human race, to whom do we turn?

When we need to develop new machines, new computers, new medical equipment, to whom do we turn?

When we look to create a world in which human beings can live in peace and harmony, to whom do we turn?


We do not turn to religion, or religious leaders for any of these things.

Religion and the perpetrators of the various religions have, down through human history, consistently and insistently fought knowledge and truth, sometimes viciously, for knowledge and truth always poses a threat to the "magic" they dispense and thus threaten to undo the hold they have over their followers!

Religions and religious leaders have consistently fought scientific discoveries, medical discoveries, life-saving discoveries.

Religions and religious leaders have been more war-mongers than peace-makers.


When we need answers; when we need those things vital for our survival, we do not turn to the religions. We do not go to the priest, the minister, or the holy books.

We turn to the scientists and the rationalist thinkers of the world.

Religion has been superfluous to our needs and desires for many years. There is no more need for a "god of the gaps."

There are no answers in the Bible or the Koran or any other holy book. There is merely ancient confusion and ignorance coupled with religious malarkey which is not only irrelevant to life today but inimical to a life lived well. We don't go to our religious leaders when we are looking for answers about things that really matter because they don't have any answers; they don't even want to know the questions!

And all of this really bugs the right-wing, fundamentalist christianist wingnuts! Our so-called "Founding Fathers," which they love to refer to as "Christians," deliberately left out any mention of the Christian deity or the Christian bible in our founding documents. They didn't base our laws on the "Ten Commands." They knew that religion (particularly the Christian religion) and the holy books had no answers to the questions raised in putting together a government of the people, by the people and for the people.


One final example: there may be some, especially along the Gulf coast, who are trying to pray away the oil spill created by the incredible incompetence and greed that drives the oil industry, but most of us know that such prayers are spitting into the wind. What we need is the best science, the best technology, the strongest materials, the greatest minds to deal with the problem.

Religion has no answers; its priests and ministers have no answers; there is nothing in their holy books about capping oil wells.

The irony is that all of our knowledge and technical skills may be inadequate to stop Mother Nature from blowing her top (or bottom)!

Holey Moley!