my personal basis for spirituality and morality is based in science.

There's a fascinating feature in the new Fortean Times about how the human brain is hardwired for sprituality, just as it's hard-wired for science, language and music. Religion and Spirituality are, of course, two different things and it would be folly to confuse them. Religion insists on a uniform compliance to a doctrine of exclusive, correct and corrective truth for the ends of political control and wholesale oppression. Spirituality, on the other hand, belongs to each and every one of us equally and without exception to each experience in their own unique way. We are born alone; we suffer alone, we will die alone; and our personal Spirituality is a manifestation of this essential uniqueness - it exists between us and the stars. Holy Communion is that of human commonality: it is language, sexual intercourse (of which procreation is by a very random byproduct), music, drinking, community, and the other joys of our glad & common earth. It says, the only TRUTH is no truth at all unless it is common to all. In this sense, the lowest is so very often the highest...

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A classic example of the turgid inhumane righteouss bullshit of the Roman Catholic Church may be found in the Good Friday Mass in the form of of prayer for the enlightenment of The Jewish People. It runs thus:

Let us also pray for the Jews: That our God and Lord may illuminate their hearts, that they acknowledge Jesus Christ is the Savior of all men. (Let us pray. Kneel. Rise.) Almighty and eternal God, who want that all men be saved and come to the recognition of the truth, propitiously grant that even as the fullness of the peoples enters Thy Church, all Israel be saved. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.

Let us vomit. Keel over in our utter despair.