For those that send out those sappy Regina Brett style, life-affirming, Jesus-loving, emails which are full of the “wisest things they’ve learned in life,” most of which aren’t very accurate but sound warm and gooey, like: “It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it,” here are some of the things I’ve learned in my life:

1. The reason God doesn’t “mind” you getting angry with him is because he’s not really there,
2. (nor is Piglet, the Tooth Fairy – or the Loch Ness Monster.)
3. Humans are so selfish, they will never do what’s right, so long as they can benefit individually by doing what’s not right.
4. Nearly all the problems on our planet could be mitigated by a reduction in the human population.
5. Half the people who read that have no idea what “mitigated” means. (But they sure know how to have more babies – fuck yeah!) — Props to China.
6. Gay people are actually doing the planet a significant favor by not breeding. Heterosexuality is the true threat to the future of mankind.
7. Trying to prevent the recognition of gay relationships is an ideological battle, rooted in religion, that has already been lost (as was the battle against slavery and granting women the vote).
8. All religious battles are eventually lost.
9. When humans finally stop living fear-based lives based on medieval beliefs about what they think their gods are trying to tell them, everyone’s lives will improve.
10. Our planet will be destroyed when the sun eventually explodes. There is no Jesus in that equation.
11. Meanwhile we are doing our best to beat the sun to it – and we will probably succeed.

Send this to anyone with a brain – or your God will be very, very upset. And we can’t have that.

Courtesy of: Stop The World, I Wanna Get Off!

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