New Pope Elected: Centuries Of Make-Believe (Religion) Reaffirmed For The Masses

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221. An article on today's HuffPo says that 40% of liberals are non-believers.

That number is rising.

20% of ALL Americans are "nones" when it comes to religious faith. THAT number is rising.

it's rising because most people today are dealing with reality every second of their lives, and for most, it isn't pretty. And when you are forced to deal with reality, you are less inclined to be tolerant of the CONCEIT - yes, it is a conceit - known as religious belief. It's a conceit because it asserts as truth that which has no objective proof, and people who are dealing with a very objective world are becoming less tolerant of those who try to pass off opinions and dogmatic bullshit as being connected to said objective reality, especially when said bullshit is the whole-cloth construct of an ancient patriarchal society that viewed women as the property of their husbands and daughters as commodities that could be sold into slavery if needs be.

The fight against the conceit that is religious belief is ongoing and never ending, because the religious never tire in their quest to impose their fantasies on the whole of the civil/rational world. We can no more step away from our criticism of religion than we can step away from our criticism of any thing else that is discriminatory to and hurtful of real people.

Which is why today is a GOOD day to bash the RCC and the general foolishness upon which religions are based - people are paying attention to religion today, so why pass up the opportunity to get 'em while they're hot?