I continue to be perplexed as to why religionists invariably know little or nothing about the mythology they believe in. All myths have the same core themes, and Christianity is just another mashup of far older mythologies - and a rather incoherent mashup at that. The idea that such silly fairytales are any use in the real world is catastrophically simple-minded, which is why so much horror has been unleashed by religionists who are so dull-witted they can't even realize their fairytale is hollow.

No civilized society should permit the spreading of mythologies in any other way than as historical artifacts that reveal a great deal about the limitations of human cognition. To pretend such babble is "real" or that it contains rules or lessons applicable to real life, is poisonous. We need to stop telling simple people toxic fairytales and look for more adequate and helpful stories. For the few people capable of actual thinking, religionist nonsense has always been absurd; most people, alas, are more cognitively constrained and therefore need simple stories that don't lead them into dark places by promising impossible outcomes.

Religionists invariably cause harm because the disconnect between their absurd beliefs and empirical reality becomes too great, and so reality must be "punished" in order for them to cling to their fairytales. Removing this deadly loop is essential, but sadly most people continue to imagine either (i) religionism is "harmless" or (ii) the nonsensical fairytales are "real."

And thus, the horrors continue.