Woke up thinking about God today

Depending on which poll you see, as many as 95 percent of all Americans identify themselves as believing in God. It's a huge number of people. The vast majority of those people are Christians -- the highest point in most towns and small cities is a church steeple and most places I've been to have more churches than bars -- so why is it that there is actually so little Christian activity going on? I don't see much "love thy neighbor" let alone "love thy enemy." Judge not lest ye be judged has been replaced with God wants me to hate gays, the Bible says so.

I blame this on two facts: 1) people are brainless, amoral hypocrites and 2) the Bible.

The first is pretty clear. People are fucking animals who believe in God because they are literally scared to say they have doubts outloud because the big invisible being who can see and hear everything might smite them old school.

The second might be less obvious to the kind of mutts who live in America and never read anything more challenging than the TVGuide Channel. The Bible is full of excuses, contradictory commands, out-dated rules for surviving in the desert and, let's face it, out and out bullshit. No eating of shellfish? That's all about the desert. I bet a good piece of shrimp wouldn't have survived more than 10 minutes out of the ocean in those days before it could lay waste anyone who tried to scampi it. Don't cut the hair on the sides of your head? Why would God care?

The effect has been one of total chaos and, on a daily basis, a bit of rudeness. It's OK and practically demanded to say you believe in God if asked. But say that God talks to you and you're nuts. That's obvious, but say that you live your life according to the way you believe God wants you to act and your still nutty and a bit of a freak. It's OK to not fuck because God says so, but you can't take five years off from work to travel the Earth and get to know humanity, it wouldn't look good on your resume.