When I was a kid I asked my father, "if god made everything, who made him?" Looking back I wonder why god should be male. After all males are only half of the equation. My father was stumped by my question as is everyone else who is religious has been since. Now if god was female that would be more interesting. I & many other straight males could well be interested in adoring a female idol, but not a dying one, or a dead one. Playboys made millions of dollars from promoting images of buxom beauties bursting out of the rags.

Quan Yin is often represented as a serene presence in flowing robes. Many people worldwide are turning to Buddhism because compassion is the key word & most Buddhists are not concerned about whether or not god as fervently believed in by Christians & Muslims exists.

One of my friends is a doctor trained in Dublin & he commented one day that the catholic hospital where he worked had lots of sado-homo-erotic art works. He not only recognised that but wondered why all that stuff was hanging around the place where people were lying sick & dying. Was it to scare people to donating their estate to the church.

Only this morning Benny Hinn was on tv asking people to send $1,000. He must be getting strapped for cash. And as for Jesus knocking all those people over to heal them. If you had someone reaching for your throat you'd fall over too. And that raises another important question. If Benny Hinn has performed all those miracles then why haven't the popes proclaimed him a saint?

And recently there has been another huge payout to people who were molested by priests. One wonders about the sexual orientations of the early christian fathers. The sins of the fathers are visited on their children.

About 40 years ago I wrote - "isn't it funny that we creatures of destiny said to have freewill continually turn to a nonentity as an axiom for our existence & by faith create in our minds god."