Religion is
Being told there is an invisible being who wants all your money by a man who claims he has been chosen to guard all that money.
atheism
Losers
The sign at the Supermarket checkout proudly said “new winners every day”, which is a much better deal than we all get at the Life checkout.
Dustbin
I am as certain of the non-existence of a god as I am of the non-existence of mermaids, werewolves, goblins, yowies, easter bunnies, pixies, bunyips, jack frost, unicorns, yetis, tooth fairies, minotaur, leprechauns, father xmas, nessie, gorgons, poltergeists, dragons, aliens, and ghosts.
Imagination
Worth remembering in these frightening times – all imaginary friends are equally imaginary.
Questions, questions
If the answer is prayer you are asking the wrong question.
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World view
There is a real world described by science; and then there are many imaginary worlds, described by religion, and politics, and astrology, and the media, and psychics, and economists, and ideology, and common sense.
Get a life
Hard to take seriously an imaginary being who wants his (yes his) followers to be primarily concerned with their dead epidermal cells: their colour, their arrangement, who can see tnem, and which bits can be rubbed together by which people.
Believe it or not
Convince someone to believe in an imaginary creature who lives in the sky and takes an interest in the outcome of football games and the purchase of lottery tickets and the number of survivors in airplane crashes, and you can get them to believe in anything.
My way or the highway
All of us, really, have one track minds. Some of us, though, are happy to explore side tracks, exit signs, underpasses, overpasses, lay-bys, and alternate scenic routes. And some of us aren’t.
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