One Man’s Fact, Another Man’s Fantasy
Religion. One of two subjects that should never be discussed in a bar, especially if you are playing pool for money, drinking more and losing more. The other is politics which in my mind is a race of political idiots out to screw up America and t6o stretch is out even more, could be considered a religion but that's a conversation best left in a bar over a pool game while losing money.
Did you know there are over 4,000 recognized religions in the world. These religions consist of churches, congregations, faith groups, tribes, cultures, and movements. There are nearly that many different versions of religious texts. For example: 73 books of the Catholic Church canon, and the 66 book of cannon of most Protestant denominations, to the 81 books of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewa Ahedo Church cannon. Compound this with 14 versions of the Bible, The Quran, and literally thousands of preserved manuscripts from different sects around the world.
Yet there is one sect people want to berate, belittle and humiliate. Atheism.
Why is that? Nothing better to do with your time than point the blasphemy finger at someone who choose not to believe there is or was, a supreme being?
News flash; the 7th Circuit Court sometime back made a ruling that is enforced by law. In short, the courts have held that the establishment clause is equally applicable to the nonreligious and even the anti-religious. As the 7th Circuit stated, “[A]theism may be considered, [only] in this special sense, a religion.” So, as you can see, even an theist has a place among the masses.
What does all this mean?" Easy. People believe in something that gives them a positive and/or moral uplift in their life.
Witho0ut belief, you might as well find that bar and lose money playing pool.