Other commenters here covered the hypocracy of religious ideology pretty well, so I thought I’d just address the title of your post…

by the way, I’m a deacon at church, a lifelong agnostic, and a “woo-wooistic” type too. All at once.

But seriously - I just commented on Figlet’s blog about the intensity and intolerance with which many people are trying to push their religious believes on other people. What about that tolerance thingy? Aren’t you supposed to love everyone, regardless of who they are? Even if - gasp - they aren’t as religious as you are?

And don’t get me started about that odd combination of ‘religion’ and ‘far right wing conservatives’. Scary.

On the days when I believe in Gd,
I am NEVER so concieted as to think that he plans his day around what I’m doing.

On the days that I don’t…well I won’t go into that here.

To quote my husband when a friend asked “Don’t you love Jesus?”
He responded “Jesus is great it’s his fan club that gets me crazy.”

It isn’t that I haven’t heard the word, it is rather that I do not find the word comforting or necessary in my likfe, and like you, I can’t see why I would choose any one over the others.

I have such a hard time with the ‘need to be right’ among religious proselytizers– which is not to say anything about most religious believers, who generally keep to themselves about it and are lovely friends without trying to tell me I need their religion. Still, I think it can be said that anyone who aregues with you in the comments of your blog about whether or not you need religion, well, that person is a proselytizer.

Keep it to yourself, let it be a personal sourceof whatever it is, and we will be fine. Start telling me how wonderful it is, and how much I need it, well, we have a problem because I am not interested.

It stuns me how many people miss that point and still live solely in the Old Testament: good out of fear of retribution.

I mean, how effed up is THAT?

P.S. I try to raise my kids to decide morally on their own, too. Not because of: WWJD?