Religion

However, it needs to be kept in your heart, in your mind, and in your home.

I think organized religion has done more harm to this planet than people have, on the whole.

I am of the mind as Major Nikon is below.

My mother was a believer, and when she lay dying in the hospital bed, anyone who wanted to pray for or over her, I didn't stop them. I didn't participate with them, but they could do what they wanted because it was what she would have wanted and really, in those moments, it was about her, and not me for a lot of the time (and for those doing the praying). I found comfort in my own way.

Within a quarter mile of my home are 4 "mega churches' that clog up my roads every Sunday and Wednesday. They aren't willing to pay for traffic signals, so they get the police to come (no charge) and direct the traffic they'd otherwise snarl for hours (which they already do).

I have seen the assault on public health in the PNW as the catholic churches have obliterated a previously thriving secular and available healthcare system which is now whittled down to two hospitals that are not catholic owned or affiliated.

Fuck organized religion, and fuck those who try to make it 'not so bad.'

It's a blight on humankind. It may do *you* individually good, but I do not buy that overall it has done more good than harm.