Luke as the following gibberish demonstrates you are addicted to beliefs in make-believe deities. It also shows that you are just another asshole that needs to be led around by the nose by someone wearing a hassock or a beanie or whatever the fuck clergymen wear these days. It's certainly no surprise why Pat Robertson or Jerry Fallwell have thousands of idiotic followers when I read that you are just as lame as any of them.

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Aside from the minority of people who are just born happy, I don't understand how people can be happy without organized religion.

I don't know much about drunks and druggies because I never had any as friends until Holly. But being with someone who'd never been inside a church or synagogue, I realized the things that religion gives that I had taken for granted:

* It instills discipline because you have to constantly deny yourself for God/community/etc.

* It provides you with community to monitor your behavior. It is a lot easier to convince yourself that what you are doing is OK than to convince your religious community (Dennis Prager).

* It gives you purpose. It gives you tons of things to do when you get up in the morning. (One reason that evangelical Christians devote so much time to proselytizing is that their religion lacks rituals and thus they have nothing better to do with themselves than bother people.)

* It provides the accumulated wisdom of thousands of years of a tradition. There have been a lot of smart rabbis who know more about life than I do. I learn from them.

* It provides structure. Religion dictates that you must set aside time for fun, for study, for family, for community, for work (not only do the Ten Commandments say you must rest one day a week, they command that we work six days a week).

* It provides rituals which give life rhthym and depth. A week without a Sabbath is like music without climax and poetry without meter.

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