Religion, or ``Why I am right and you are wrong.''

To those of you who are truly in touch with your spirituality, I offer my respect.

To those of you who are only in touch with organised religion, I offer an assault rifle and as much ammunition as you can carry up to the altar.

It's not that I have an irrational fear of all things religious, you understand. It's that I have a rational fear of most things religious. Because I am a product of Western culture, Christianity is the religion I have been brought up with. It is therefore Christianity to which I have given my consideration, and from that consideration comes my point: Christianity is a bad thing.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

--Robert G. Ingersoll


A slightly more expansive arae is where religion and sexuality meet in my life.