Well, thank you.
I fear the fake and real evil just because it’s bad, that’s all. I consider people who take a religion and twist it until it meets their needs in an evil way pretty dangerous and wish it didn’t effect so many people. Like the 911 hijackers and those types. They killed a lot of innocent people and changed the world in a negative way.
What the right wing (and some of the left too) are doing is detrimental to society as a whole and affects everyone negatively. That’s what bothers me the most. In a perfect world, kindness would rule and shit like 911 or Jonestown wouldn’t happen. But I’m a dreamer.
As far as faith goes, I went to a Catholic school for 11 years. Long enough to know organized religion doesn’t cut it for me. Especially if it’s run by hypocrites. I also don’t believe in a god the way most people do. I DO believe there’s something more powerful than us, not necessarily running all this shit, or created it, or whatever, but I’ve had two what I’d call “near-death” experiences. The most recent was last January. I didn’t see a god, or see anything. But I felt something, and it made me comfortable, the most comfortable I’ve ever been. Then I wasn’t so comfortable and was told that I had “flatlined during surgery and…” that’s when the nurse looked at me funny because I was saying what she was saying in unison. I knew what she was saying.
Take that however you want.