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Religions of the World

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Throughout the course of time, mankind has debated among itself as to the existence of a god. “There is too a god!” one side is bound to say. “I mean, how could there not be? We have all this stuff.”

“You’re an idiot,” the other side will say. “Anyone who believes in an all-seeing, all-knowing god who looks down and judges us at all times is barbaric. Why don’t you put on some robes and dance around a slaughtered virgin, you troglodyte!”

I, for one, blame science for this argument. If scientists were so damn smart they would have already gone out of their way to prove conclusively whether or not god is an infinitely powerful being who examines us all from the clouds or just something made up by the corporations to sell more bibles. I think that this amazing lack of initiative on the part of science is unforgivable; until they figure out this god thing we should boycott all products that science had any part in. That’ll teach ’em.

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