Reply #4: "Our traditional religions are crumbling...because they're no longer relevant." St. Bill Hicks

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzxb2T1eX9I

"The reason our institutions, our traditional religions, are already crumbling is because THEY'RE NO LONGER RELEVANT! It's time for us to create a NEW philosophy, and perhaps even a new religion, you see, and that's okay because that's our right. We are free children of God with minds that can imagine anything, and that's kind of our role. How do you evolve ideas? I'll give you an example right here... Why is the drug czar in this country, well I'll go back, why do we HAVE a drug czar in this country? A. B, Why is he a cop? Why isn't he a guy in recovery who's HAD an alcohol and/or drug addiction and overcome it, and why doesn't he HELP people with the same problem, with compassion rather than condemnation? Why do we put people who are ON drugs in jail? They're SICK! They're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in jail. See it makes no sense! And if we evolve the idea, you see, the planet might be more compassionate, and something like HEAVEN might dawn."

-Bill Hicks