Where god fails, science succeeds

[rrneck]

6. One's ability to overcome may or may not be there,

that's why it takes faith. Until it's proven, its just as "make believe" as sky Santa. If believing in some supernatural being can get you up and going, well, OK. If you have to pay for access to that being or if someone wants to use It to garner power to themselves - that's fucked up.

Faith is just a free floating substance we project on the things and people around us constantly and spontaneously. It's about the least exclusive substance in the world. And we use it to fetishize things and people all the time. That's why you see "NRA" and "assault weapon" bantered about so much around here. They're not real - they're evil spells and talismans. And the facts and data used to respond to them are "NRA talking points", understood to be more evil spells.

Get rid of God? Nah. Replace him? At the drop of a hat?