The consolation of religion

 
In the past few days, I have been thrust into two situations of dealing with the religious. In one case the old girl, a few years younger than I, uses religion or god for comfort, and consolation for loss in her life. Living in non-reality can be comforting and provide a great deal of consolation, which I do not wish to take from anyone.

The second was a Facebook encounter. It is time to abandon facebook. It is a time suck, and a make believe world, where any comments that are refuted are just deleted. The US second amendment was created by James Madison before 1800 because he feared that a President would use the army against it's own people, and in less that a lifetime it did, the civil war happened. Oh well, shit happens.

The religious have difficulty dealing with facts, logic, and hence reality.  Pushing faith, prayer, and the like, rather than logic as a method of making potentially large decisions is just bullshit ignorance. Life can be simple logical steps. If there is no logic, there can be no step. If you wish to pay the full price, you can waste your money. Oh well.

Trudeau is an overly altruistic person who has never struggled to pay the bills. He is too willing to give away money to the natives, a conquered race that does not want to do what is necessary to live well in our modern society. Oh well. He also thinks honor killing is barbaric, which makes him somewhat right. It is illegal for savages to kill our citizens, even if it is the parents doing the killing.  That is the big problem with politicians. They are all right some of the time, but not on all issues, and there are no simple solution for dealing with other religions and cultures. It is a series of independent of each other choices.  

Many religious people have a hard time with the truth, and cannot deal with facts. They lash out, and we need to recoil. Many religious have the concept that it is OK to push their religion, but get offended when we truth seeking push back. Oh well, I lived many years with no connection to family.