I am seeing more and more news about the church, meaning the entire Christian hegemony and not just the Catholic Church. (Why must I capitalize it? Hmmmm?)

The news is mostly not good news.

The Pope resigned. We are led to believe the official story, that he feels too old and mentally unable to perform the duties.

What duties!? All Popes have to do is stand at an open window once a week and make the sign of the cross to all those Italians standing out there on his lawn!

Maybe the reason Benedict has decided to remain within the walls of the Vatican - a sovereign country - is because of the child-boogering legal cases brought against him and that church in Europe. He is untouchable there.

More and more fundamentalist preachers are spouting fascist stuff. That has always gone on but lately it is really bad. It seems that they are all in for spousal abuse, child beating, funeral protesting and giving social security numbers to unborn zygotes.

It took me a very long time to shake religion off my back.

I have absolutely no regrets.