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At one point in my life, I loved debating religion. Nothing pleased me more than upsetting my fundamentalist friends by denouncing everything they believed in and grinning while they professed sadness at the loss of my soul. We'd do this at least once a week.
I did not believe in god. I still don't. How I'm different now is that I don't much enjoy discussing it anymore. Not that I've become apathetic towards the discussion, I've just lost the interest in debating a circular issue, one with no beginning and no end.
I've lost my contempt for Christians and others who believe in a supreme being. I no longer hate religion, I just don't agree with it.
However, what I do continue to detest is the hypocrisy of many of our nation's "moral" leaders, i.e. Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and their ilk.
I will never tire of denouncing them. But it's not their religion I'm denouncing; it's their lack of any spiritual foundation for their morality. They use religion as their weapon to attack that which they personally do not like and make the claim they speak for Christians when they do so. This is what I despise.
I believe that these are the very people who have made religion such a sore subject for many people.
I feel as though I've taken the thread on a tangent. My apologies if I have.
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"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am" - Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses
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