Do It And I'll Fuckin' Spank You.

Let me get this straight. You don’t believe in God because of Alice in Wonderland?

No, Through the Looking Glass. That poem, “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” that’s an indictment of organized religion. The Walrus, with his girth and his good nature, he obviously represents either Buddha, or with his tusks, the Hindu elephant god, Lord Ganesha. That takes care of your Eastern religions. Now, the Carpenter, which is an obvious reference to Jesus Christ, who was raised a carpenter’s son, he represents the Western religions. Now, in the poem, what do they do? They dupe all these oysters into following them, and then proceed to shuck and devour the helpless creatures en masse. I don’t know what that says to you, but to me it says that following these faiths based on mythological figures ensures the destruction of one’s inner being. Organized religion destroys who we are by inhibiting our actions, by inhibiting our decisions out of fear of some intangible parent figure who shakes a finger at us from thousands of years ago and says, “Do it… do it and I’ll fuckin’ spank you!”

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The above is a quote from the movie, Dogma. There's a disclaimer at the beginning of the movie that it is just a work of comedy, not to be taken seriously. But, Loki's above argument is certainly believeable. I can say that I do believe his message. Organized religion has smacked everyone into line, forcing them to beleive, obey the rules, and live purely. I can truly say that organized religion has duped all humans worldwide into believing in some words written on paper by some bigotist, sexist, racist men from a couple thousand years ago. For all we know, those men could have just made up a pretty long story. Oh, and when they wrote the stories they'd been told for centuries, passed down from generation to generation, they were just writing down the stories as they remembered them. The funny thing about that: let's remember the "telephone" game from elementary school. One person retells a story and it gets twisted and turned in all sorts of ways. Who can believe anything they remember their parents telling them. Does my point here make sense? Maybe I'll finish this rambling later. I can't think of anything else to write. But now you know a portion of my religious affiliation.