WORZALA'S WEDNESDAY WORD 4-18-07

Today's Wednesday Word is "religious" as in "I'm not really religious, but I am spiritual. ...wait, what? Oh, that's what it means? Oh, okay, yeah, I'm religious not spiritual."

Religion is not a bad thing. It never has been. Religion, like Government and Girl Scout cookies, exists to help people. In a perfect world Religion exists to inspire people, to make their lives better and to worship a loving creator. Of course, this isn't a perfect world and things that are perfect in their abstract form quickly become tainted when mixed with reality. That's why we have zealots, graft and those Lemon cookies.

Less than 48 hours after the tragedy at Virgina Tech, some people are already blaming the separation of church and state for what happened. Oh, and abortion, can't forget abortion. If we all just believed the world was 6,000 years old and that dinosaurs existed at the same time as man in the Garden of Eden, these sort of things wouldn't happen. But because God didn't smite Charles Darwin and John Scopes when He had the chance, the world has been going to hell ever since. This is not over exaggeration on my part, I wish it was. Watch Jesus Camp sometime soon. These people exist, and they're having a lot of kids who they're teaching at home, far away from nasty science and question-asking peers.

Of course, a zealot's life is not all rainbow covenants and mana from heaven. There are disadvantages as well. 1) It makes you bit of a bore and a smidgen of a jerk that no one outside of your fellow zealot circle will want to associate with. 2) God might give you rabies.