What's It All About

Religion is made up, and God is what you make him.

It's so blindingly obvious that it's very hard for me to understand how large numbers of intelligent people can sign up to the whole fantastic idea. No matter how "devout" people are, those who follow the religions of "The Book" (not Hitchhiker obviously) pick and choose what they are going to believe. They just have to, admit it or not, because the major proportion of what is written there is nonsense, or self contradictory, or just plain foul.

Those who don't follow the religions of the book can make up any fantasy they like, but often sign up to some Latter Day book writer. Clearly "The Book" is just like a kit of parts, from which the gullible can construct a belief system.

There is clearly something in human beings that makes them susceptible to religion. But why we should think that the religions of history, or of primative people are laughable, naive constructs, while our religion is incontavertible truth is beyond me. And what's all this modern guff about valuing each other's religion? If polytheism is piffle, where do the Hindus come in? Why are the Jews and Moslems wrong about Jesus?

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