The Total Cost

to those struggling to stay afloat, performing that ever-amusing balancing act, standing on the raft of dwindling “faith,” while the river of rationality, science & reason continues without pause to flow stronger than ever down below--- that is, when you look at the age range of folks dropping out of the cesspool of organized religion here in the belly of the empire, one finds finally that “the belief in the existence of god has dropped 15 points in the last five years among americans 30 and under”---so as age drops, so does the willful wading in bull*****& so for those still standing on the raft, refusing to learn how to swim, refusing to give up on writing off everything in this world for a better one after they die, what will be the total cost, when that last bit of belief falls through the fingers once comfortably held “praying” in silent desperation? when the one changing your diapers doesn’t feel like wheeling you down to the church, because s/he doesn’t see the point, how long will it take you to figure out just how much of the energy in your life, just how many years (that you’ll never get back) you wasted on these fantasies dreamt up by people who refused to allow the education of the women they traded like cattle, who thought the earth was flat like a sheet of paper & who felt that bloodletting might be the proper way of getting rid of a stomach bug?