It appears that some have taken my last post as “encouraging people to leave the church.” You weren’t listening. Simply, I was clear: if you love religion, and it does something for you, then enjoy it to the hilt! But if you don’t like it, you attend church services only as an act of penitence, or to prove to others you are a good person, and you have already left or are planning on it, I’m making it clear that religion is a human construct and, in the end, is extraneous to believing in God or following Jesus. That the latter two are portable, and you can take them with you. You don’t have to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

I’m going to try and get away from religion on this blog for a while as I have many other things to say that are important.

Respectfully, Mike