It's been a long day and a long night... I'm trying to do my turn-around right for a change, we'll see what happens.

I've kinda settled on a color, #33CCFF. Please let me know if this is difficult to read.

I did have a couple of people point out Pages that Suck: the author doesn't like black backgrounds. In fact, when I first saw his pages (in my HTML infancy) I took down my site and redesigned it completely. Yeah, it was all black; that was when everyone was first worried about censorship. Anyway, I've learned a little bit since then... I hope.

I put together a loose compilation of funny stuff that I've acquired over the last couple of years. The last one (in hte file, clear at the bottom) had me sitting here laughing so hard that I was crying on the keyboard. The file is somewhat large, and could be split up into categories if I had the time and the inclination, but I don't.

Charles asked me a question about yesterday's entry, and I have been pondering on it. I'm ashamed to say that I haven't come up with a satisfactory answer. the question: How is an intolerant atheist better than an intolerant Christian? The answers that I came up with are weak. Probably the closest that I came was, well, if I'm right, nobody gets hurt. If they're right, everyone who doesn't believe like them will fry in hell forever. Even so, that doesn't justify intolerance.

On the other hand, is intolerance bad? There are different forms of intolerance, of course. We're talking about religious intolerance here. The kind of intolerance that I am demonstrating is like a teacher with a student learning math: 2+2 equals 4, and that's the way it is. A teacher won't tolerate a kid saying, "That's not right, my daddy say's it's three!" And the teacher has the world behind him. Everyone but the kid and his dad knows that 2+2=4. Our whole damned world won't work if it isn't! We've got a lot at stake here, that kid's gotta be taught some way or another!

So... this is the way that I feel about how I think on the subject of religion. I'm right, and anyone with any logical sense about them can figger it out, once they know that it's an option.

The problem is... that most good xians feel the same way...they're right. They have the logic. They have the bible, god's own words (or an interpretation or a reasonable facimile thereof).

So what's the difference between me and the Reverend Jimmy? Well, he only had Tammy, and I have Karen. He was running a scam, and I'm not. He was rich and he's in jail and I'm poor and free.

I get very frustrated thinking about this kinda shit. I would love to be able to save the world from themselves, but they don't wanna be saved, at least not by me. I can't make promises for an afterlife. I can't take care of your non-existent soul. As I mentioned a few days ago, I can't shake a Christian's faith long enough for them to listen to me, much less help them to... I hate this fucking phrase... see the light.

A joke just ran through my skull...He's a Born-Again Christian, but he was brain-damaged in the birthing process.

I've been looking at a lot of atheist and freethinker sites the last couple of days, looking for that one phrase, that one quote, that will clarify my thinking. And, dammit, I'm not giving up until I find it.

The birds are starting to sing, the sky is lightening. It's gonna be another day and I can't stop it. Wednesday... back to work tonight. I've been off nine days, and my back is somewhat better, and I'm gonna be damned careful with it at work this week, you betcha!