i saw this on another site while trolling about. thought it interesting.
all is well. i am up early on for what feels like my first day without work. rather enjoying every minute of it. got way to drunk on saturday night @ re-bar. shitty shitty drunk that left my sunday in a daze of headache, ill gut and capable of nothing but moaning. lovely. missed dinner with ryan, sandy, kristen and avi because of hangover, bummed about that. filed for unemployment on friday... so may go down to the office today just to check out what they have available down there. so much to do.

Richard Dawkins
evolutionary biologist
Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!