Understanding the Need

I understand the need that people have

to believe in a supernatural system of

order, of checks and balances,

of promised afterlife

and hurts assuaged.

I fully get that humanity is a

losing proposition and life is difficult

and everyone suffers.

That this world is bitter and harsh

and devastating and cruel.

But the need for an answer

does not cause an answer--

or a solution--to exist.

The man-made addressing of all

our worries and travails

through religion (and a prevailing

essence based on mankind's

nature) is not a reality

simply because people wish it were so.

Certainly there are more questions caused by

the religions of the world and

their failed attempts to make

sense of the chaos of life

than there is any relief brought

forth from them.

I understand.

I wish there was an answer to all the insanity.

I wish there was a magic rainbow and

justice and a place where kindness

prevails and is rewarded.

But I see the belief in those things

for what it is; a child's need for

things to be better than they are.

And I have no more room for

fairy tales, folk lore,

superstition, or bible stories.

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