'Marx said religion was the opiate of the masses. He was wrong'....it's the cyanide.

(Tom Robbins added the cyanide part. )

Religion is superstition got lucky. Think Feng Shui meets Numerology meets Predestination: God has a plan for you on 888 Kabbalah Avenue as long as you gots a view of the water.

Religion is the ultimate placebo effect. Here, swallow this...hook line and sinker. You'll feel better in the 'mourning'.

No you won't.

Religion abuses and abases the collective wisdom and power and vision in mythology and makes us so blind and deaf to the voices of our ancestors that we fall asleep walking...

...on a sorry pilgrimage with those who bemoan the fact that we have been gifted with celestial thoughts, yet cursed in the body of an animal which knows it will die.

And yet...I still long to continue to see beauty.