HELP THE POOR, FEED THE HUNGRY, PROTECT THE OPPRESSED, SIT WITH THE HATED

To the degree your religious affiliation causes you to feel empathy for the poor, the imprisoned, the hungry, the downtrodden, the hated--- and prompts you to move toward sacrificing to help them---or that it reminds you of your social responsibility to refrain from stealing, interfering, coveting, screwing that which belongs to others---or killing them, then it’s probably a good thing to spend time on. To the degree your religious concerns are for stupid doctrine…like wearing beanies or scarves, and not dancing or taking birth control pills—or babbling about things a guy you imagine to look like Barry Gibb did in Palestine, 2000 years ago—KNOWING that it is all made-up, rehashed, recycled mythology---water to wine, resurrection, born on the Winter Equinox, born of a mammalian female virgin--- that silliness…all that stuff has been part of this myth and that, for millennia before the Christians, Muslims, Jews, or whomever-- if you spend your time on that nonsense, you’re a stooge.