Renouncing Nonsense

"EVERYONE WHO SERIOUSLY pursues science becomes convinced that a spirit, vastly superior to humanity, is manifest in the laws of the universe", said Einstein. No other religiosity is necessary, or appropriate, it says here. Think about it. How likely is it, really now, that the creator of the universe would reveal truth in a book which says that the world is flat, the value of pi is, oh, three, and when Christ returns, the stars shall fall from the sky and smash upon the ground like little glass trinkets? Whatever God is, surely God is not a liar. Mark Twain, a notorious atheist, said that he read the Bible, and that he found within some noble poetry, some clever fables, a great deal of obscenity, and no less than one thousand outright lies. The group of red clad cardinals convenes at the Vatican, and begin voting. Finally, a new pope is elected, and the smoke rises from the smokestack, white. The announcement is made: God has selected a new holy father. God, the delegater of authority, who expresses his divine will through pencil and paper, among contentious factions of clerics, by vote. God, who allows the nascent Christian church to languish in fractious disarray for three centuries, then decides its time to canonize the faith, and sends hundreds of people to a small town in Turkey, for the purpose of placing His holy word on paper, through a process of deliberation, argumentation, and balloting. Mighty strange and indirect way to do business, one might think. presidential candidate Ted Cruz said that in order to quality for the American presidency, a person should begin each day on his or her knees, in prayer. Here's another idea: in order to qualify for political office in the United States, a person must be required to renounce all forms of superstition and nonsense, such as religion.