Most Gen-Xers know the song “Losing My Religion” by R.E.M., and many thought it actually had something to do with religion & an individual parting from it.  However, it’s merely an old Southern term for a person about to get really angry, but in this case, I’d like to use it literally . . .

To believe in things like ghosts, angels & divine miracles, you’d have to believe in an afterlife in which we flourish, or at least exist on some level other than as worm food or ashes, and I (and many other intelligent people) don’t believe this as it’s a totally ridiculous premise not backed by the facts as we know them, and to believe in something (to “have faith”) against known facts is foolish.

There’s absolutely no empirical evidence that an afterlife exists, which is why you have to have “faith” that it does contrary to all the known evidence & facts we have. If there were a God who was all-knowing and all-powerful, surely he (or she — I doubt it’s a woman as I’m not the first to point out that a woman all-mighty deity wouldn’t screw things up this badly) would not leave us guessing as to whether he (or she) exists and would let us know in no uncertain terms.

Of course, other than the fact that He hasn’t shown his cards to us ( or not yet as the faithful will say), you could argue we don’t know if there’s an afterlife or not, which would fall into the realm of Agnostics, who you might say are those that are too scared to admit that there is no afterlife and prefer to sit on the fence for various reasons (fear, doubt & theory all come to mind) rather than take a position and be Atheists.

Most people want to find a reason to blame things and not take responsibility for their own fate and pawn it off to some unknown deity who controls it, like if He (or She) exists, our alleged supreme being has time to deal with every picayune issue on this planet considering that we have many billions of galaxies full of many billions of planets out there, all of which he allegedly created, and keep in mind that some people don’t even believe the Earth is more than 6,000 years old!  

Religion is for the weak, the ignorant, and those who make money from it.