I am not a religious man. Lately you might even call me anti-religious. I don’t mind religion. I don’t mind religious persons. If truth be told sometimes I’m envious of the unwavering faith some people have. I could never have that kind of faith in something that cannot be proved to me. People have tried, it just doesn’t work on me.

Over and over again we hear the stories of sexual abuse by powerful members of the Catholic Church and the great lengths they go through to cover-up their deviant behavior. How can anyone go to a Catholic Church and pray knowing there is a good chance that the man at the podium should be banned from society and locked away for good. I know that not every priest is a pervert, but it is getting harder and harder (maybe a poor choice of words) to believe that any one in the Church is a protector of our children.

We have reports of hundreds and maybe thousands of children in Pennsylvania being abused and raped by the very adults they were raised to respect. This is on top of the thousands of children that have had their lives ruined over the years by these predators.

As a society we must find a way to weed out the priests, nuns or anyone that uses the Church as a backdrop to provide validity to their actions. As radical as this may sound it is time to close down every Catholic Church in the world and rid our society of this menace. I am singling out the Catholic Church because we don’t hear much about the other religions. If this behavior is rampant in other churches then we must do the same. The Pope can no longer hide in the Vatican and pretend this is not happening. The true faithful must take a stand and take up the gauntlet. Being one of the non-faithful it is easy to see why this sickness has been allowed to continued for so long. The true faithfuls believe that God will deliver them from harm and that His disciples can be trusted to take care of the Flock. Obviously this is not the case as our children suffer at the hands of these despicable followers.

This is an over simplification of the problem. And not being privy to the insider’s knowledge of the Church leaves me a little out of the loop. But as I read/hear the reports coming from around the world there is little doubt in my mind that any religion that condones (by covering up, or even endorsing) these actions should be eradicated from our lives.

We are humans first and religious followers second. As humans we must protect the innocents from harm. If any religion does not protect the innocent then how can anyone have faith?

The headline kind of tells the story. I was going to write a long and in depth article about a fictional country who’s elected leader is caught time after time making shit up. And when it is brought to the attention of the ruling party’s members they shrug it off as the leader just “being the leader”. But then I realized I didn’t have to really write anything because we are living it everyday!

Alright, one thing. You forced me into this. The leader claims he predicted that the English would vote in favor of “Brexit” the day before the voting took place. He said that he was at a reopening of his golf club on the day before the vote and predicted the outcome. That would have been June 22, 2016. The vote took place on June 23, 2016. As usual he considers himself the smartest man in the room, in the British Isles this time. Except…Wait, you what’s coming don’t you? HIS OWN TWEETS HAVE HIM SHOWING UP IN SCOTLAND ON JUNE 24, 2016!.

Here is a transcript of an interview while this leader was in England:

“If you remember, I was opening Turnberry the day before Brexit. I said Brexit will happen, and it did happen. And then we cut the ribbon.”

Below is his tweet about the same subject. Note the date at the bottom:

Why should we care? It’s just a little white lie to make a point. Or maybe just “alternative facts”. BECAUSE, THIS IS OUR COUNTRY AND WE NEED TO TAKE IT BACK! Turns out his campaign slogan works now! Now is time to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Wow. I have no idea how this turned out to be about Trump. It all started as a work of fiction. Funny how art imitates life.

A short one here for you…

Remember when Trump was campaigning using the size of the National Debt (no not his hands)? At that time the debt was just over 19 Trillion, yes with a T, 19 trillion dollars. Most of that owed to China! Trump said we wouldn’t have a country if the debt wasn’t reduced. Guess what! The National Debt is now over 21 Trillion dollars. This isn’t yen were talking about but real U.S. Dollars.

Think this one over next time the word bankruptcy comes to mind. This country is there. We are not on our way, WE ARE THERE!