Sometimes there's little comfort in knowing that it takes all kinds, but on second thought, it does calm me. It does take all kinds, and the village to raise the child. Comparing and contrasting serves me well when I pay attention. The bones are all connected. And the eye is not the ear is not the heart is not the hand is not the foot.
Nevertheless, while rejecting the pious propaganda so widely published by those who try to box me in (or out) of their falsely select block of "believers," I still stifle no small rage at the insult. Efforts to insinuate disbelief are presumptuous and their premise is completely stupid, but it's not the first time that Jesus and the Bible were clung to out of fear or sold like a snake oil remedy. Fire and brimstone, hell and damnation blather? Easily blown to bits by fairly simple arithmetic: Bible + Jesus = Love. No doubt about it. Exclusive, unmerciful, faith-based politics that denies personal and religious liberty, well, the math is just wrong.
And it's not rocket science. Staying tuned can be a mixed bag, but what's the worst that could happen? I suppose the sky could fall. And if darkness covers the earth? It never lasts.
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