Last christmas I followed the family crowd to the ritual churchgoing. What surprised me, and almost offended me, was that a fictional story about the birth of christ was recited by somebody. It was elaborate and descriptive, like a book bought at a store. It referred to sounds and smells, trying to make it sound more real to the audience. The problem is I know damn well it was made up. They keep rehashing the same story until after decades or centuries it bears almost no resemblance to the historical account, or at least earlier versions. It's religion morphing and mutating endlessly without any inquiry into how much is fact. And the kids lap it up. They don't know the difference. Why don't the parents give their kids a better grounding in reality? They would do better in school if they told the truth. Taught them how to be skeptical, to search for the flaws, to tackle real life problems and solve them. They are substituting education with religion. And that fits with my perspective that religion is evidence of a lack of education, areas where and understanding of reality has failed and have been filled in with nonsense.
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