(Another) fresh insight on religion...

This past Sunday as we were watching our grandson and I was looking toward the house of my son's Mormon neighbors, just across the street, I was thinking how dumb the simple concept of religion is. Even though snow and temperatures were terrific, these “morons” didn't go skiing.

Or didn't go golfing, scuba-diving or just bicycling. They read the scriptures instead, as would be expected of any good Latter Saints' family on a Sunday afternoon after spending 4 hour in service.

So here you have it; you spend an entire life – that could in many ways fun and pleasurable – worrying instead about life after death (a very unlikely outcome) and sacrifice the known “here and now” for a totally hypothetical “eternal life.”

Give me a break, religious leaders, you've got here a losing proposition. One bird in the hand – here and now – for a highly improbable one in some bush called afterlife, that moreover must mean basking in eternal boredom. You've finally lost me, organized religions!