When I joined HV 2+ years ago, I'd hoped to be able to make the odd sensible/ sarky comment to enliven proceedings. Since then unfortunately for me ( but probably in all your best interests !) health problems have got in the way. So now having had the all clear for 2 1/2 years,I'll explain what I feel after the nightmares I've seen.
THEN you'll understand why I regard all religion as the work of, dare I say it, the devil. The devil I'd hasten to add that is in all of us. Not some hell and brimstone wally screaming about souls.
Some people need direction in life, a classic case in point was a guy who called on me recently trying to sell me stuff. Now I am tight. Money is not growing in my orchard, nor am I able to make trillions of loaves from a Mcdonalds bun, or feed the 5K with a crappy fishfinger. This guy however had a hard life, he'd made wrong decisions etc etc. So in act of magnitutude unknown in the Toroidal household I made him a cup of coffee. The rollocks that spewd forth about religion,JC, how Freedom thingy doesn't influence anything etc was mind blowing. This guy had been brainwashed.
Now I see the varilights, projectors and no doubt loud crappy music has been installed in the old cinema. ....At what cost ?
Here is what these buffoons need to do.
Forget all about sky fairies.
Forget all about building 'temples' to the betterment of their egos.
Try looking after the ill and infirm who have over their lifetimes given so much to the community.
Help the unfortunate who have fallen on hard times with sensible advice
Look after the youngsters who have some terrible debilitating diseases with no known cure.
and above all wind your religious neck in and deal with real people with real problems not nonsense maybe written 1,000;s of years ago by people who needed to control the great unwashed.
Finally I'll tell you about one time in the mens surgical ward in a hospital many miles from here. I was lying there recovering in a mini ward of 6 people. Hearing them talk I realised that actually I was the oldest and the most optimistic. I've never heard so much doom and gloom- they'd all lost the will to live, Sheeeesh no wonder people die in hospital. Then in came the traveling Chaplain... pissed out of his head, who proceeded to try and get the guys to sing, It was like something out of hi-di ho.
People need to talk, to interact, to respond.TO BE HELPED. Not ruddy brainwashed.
The rollocks of religion has arrived at Paris again. 'nough said.
My case rests.