Why Hast I Forsaken Thee??

I may have a different perspective than my partner in blasphemy. I work with religious people, and have them on both sides of my family and to a lesser extent, among my friends. It effects me every day, not in the sense that they look down on me for being gay, not observing the sabbath, eating shellfish or whittling my own litte graven images, but that the stupid, cruel, and wrong decisions these people make are often directly influenced by their religious beliefs. Oh sure, I hope for my posts to be entertaining and dripping in sarcasm, but I have religion surrounding me every day and it is often responsible for turning up my anger dial to eleven, and turning up my "tired movie reference" dial to twelve.

There are many people who I love very much that are Christians, Catholics (they will swear they are different, unless they need to join against the Muslims), Hindus, Jews, and people who think that astrology is real. This blog is in no way an attack on specific people but on their basis of their beliefs. I often find myself in debates and discussions about religion with religious people who do not understand their own magical textbooks. I hope that by reading the bible cover to cover I can head into some of these debates (wars) with some knowledge (ammunition) to be loaded into my brain (gun) which I can use to argue (shoot) with people who have a different view of religion than I do (people who have a different view of religion than I do).

So let's make like Sonic the Hedgehog and come with the Genesis.

- Charlatan Heston