The gods must be crazy, or maybe we are
Religion as a mind virus
If you were raised religiously and you escaped, congratulations. If you are on the fence, this essay is targeted at you.
“We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us.” -Mark Twain
Suppose I told you I had a magic unicorn that could fly to another dimension where a supreme intelligence named Albert resides. Every time I fly to this secret dimension, Albert, who likes to be called Big Al, gives me new instructions about how to lead a better life back here on Earth. Would you take me seriously?
Maybe a few of you would. Most of you would laugh and go about your business. “That guy Pen is really weird,” you’d think to yourself as you s…
