As a general rule, if you spend most of your time pontificating about some certain amoral act -- be it male teenage prostitutes or marital fidelity -- chances are that you are doing so as a means to mask the skeletons in your own closet. How many of these assholes have we seen brought down, as they cry to their congregations that Jesus should forgive them.
That, imho, is the biggest problem with "religion." Virtually every one of the major organized religions is based upon getting to some version of a "heaven," no matter what your transgressions. Thus, a Jimmy Swaggart can diddle prostitutes, but as long as he accepts a mythical floating ghost's son, he's good. Newt can cheat on wife after wife after wife and impeach another dude for getting a blow job, then feign outrage at the media for ignoring the important stuff. '
Over and over again, these cretins dupe the easily dupe-able, the GOP, the uneducated. They have created the perfect "system." It is completely, 100% unverifiable. "Just trust us! Believe in the floating ghost, and send me 10% of your salary! Meanwhile, I'll be be fucking teenaged boys or cheating on my cancer-ridden wife. In their world, it is all perfectly acceptable, just so long as you cry as little when you're caught, and beg for forgiveness from an imaginary sky dude.
Then there are those of us who do not seek "forgiveness," do not seek a mythical savior, do not rely on imaginary floating ghost, do not figure we can do whatever we want while alive because we'll be forgiven once dead...we just live moral lives. We do what people are supposed to do not because we're afraid burning in hell, rather, because we're afraid of just being shitty persons.
I don't want to be a shitty person, so I am nice to people, I treat people well, I don't cheat on my wife, I don't diddle teenage male prostitutes...not because I'm afraid of a mythical fire-breathing bad dude, or because I'm seeking the love of a giant guy in flowing white robes who lives in the clouds. I live a good life because that is how I believe we're supposed to treat each other. But this current crop of homophobic, wife-swapping, tax-cheating, philandering, racist GOP assholes all swear one thing in common...their "God" will forgive them for their sins.
How CONVENIENT. Just do whatever the fuck you want, and as long as you beg forgiveness and cry a little bit, you're cool. Or you could just be a good person in the first place.
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