What We Believe

For decades, I didn't have to tell anyone about my beliefs.  I just said I was an atheist, and that took care of it. 

But now, because of how evangelical Christianity has gotten involved in conservative politics, I believe that, once the dust settles down—or maybe it won't; who knows?—people who thought that they once had a home in these peculiar Megachurches, people who are 'menu-driven', whose instinct is to just select a belief system from among those offered, will need a new system, in place of the 'faiths' offered by the jet-set preachers.

Simply surviving these few years with our reasoning skills intact will involve being exposed to a lot of hate from the informal (social) media; hate of Trump and his unscrupulous circle of advisors; hate of the ultra- conservatives, the violently anti-immigrant; the greedy opportunist rip-off artists, etc.  The sly people who try to sneak a buck are easy to forgive.  It is the people who want to make it easy for the robber barons to pick over what little the poor have left: those are the ones who're easiest to hate.  There are plenty of those; they insist on the right of businesses to make extortionary profits.

It will take time to formulate a moral code that people will find reasonable. 

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