> > Love the people, hate the religion?
>>
>> Doug
>
>Hate? I'm sure you're being over the top, but I'm not sure how this
>is accomplished.
Yes, way over the top, but I still wish religion would just go away. I'm with Marx in that famous passage. I can't do any better than to quote it here:
>Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real
>distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh
>of the oppressed creature, the heart of the heartless world, just as
>it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. The demand to give up
>illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition
>that needs illusions. Criticism has plucked the imaginary flower
>from the chain, not so that men will wear the chain without any
>fantasy or consolation, but that they will break the chain and cull
>the living flower.
Doug