Preach it, Brother Penn!

Actually, as anyone who has spoken with me on this subject knows, I am likely not an atheist in any form. That said, I have very, very little use for most organized religion given how it exists today.

Just in the Protestant camp, the hateful things so-called religious leaders promote strikes me as anathema to anything in the Bible. As for the Catholic Church? A Hitler Youth leading a pack of unprosecuted pedophiles with the rest of them looking the other way? Nah, I may be baptized in the Church, but I’m not signing up for that.

Other religions? Honestly not much better.

So while I feel more comfortable in the camp that just chooses to do away with religion as it exists, it is nice to have hope for an afterlife. Just not with most of those currently making the case for it.

Comedy Central video

Humans are fallible. Sometimes horribly so. Thomas Jefferson is no exception.

That said, considering one of our major political parties just finished running a candidate for president who believed African-Americans were undeserving of salvation for most of his life and that 47% of his fellow citizens were beneath his contempt, we sure the hell haven’t improved from the slave owning creator of the Declaration of Independence.