I belong to no church, and I have no certainty about there being a "super-natural". By the same token I have no conviction that there is not a "super-natural". In many regards you could call me an Agnostic or a Deist. (From: The American Heritage Dictionary. "Deism is the belief, claiming foundation solely upon the evidence of reason, in the existence of God as the creator of the universe who after setting it in motion abandoned it, assumed no control over life, exerted no influence on natural phenomena, and gave no supernatural revelation.") A lady friend, who is much more literate than me, suggests that I should call myself "A Heretic". I suspect she is right.

I'm a Heretic! ! !

Here is a webpage by J.R. Howell who has interesting views (which I in general agree with) and lots of links. Also on his web site he also has a lot of mathematical things.

Problems that I have with all religions

1. I fault all religions in that they all teach that they are "right", and by implication then others are "wrong." Unfortunately, it is a short step for a religious teaching to go from: "We are right, they are wrong" to "We are right, they are bad" to "We must oppose them" to "We must destroy them." While religions claim to teach love and kindness, in actuality, they are far more proficient is teaching hate and killing. Most wars and killings are a direct result of churches and their religious teachings. Look at history and what is going on today in Ireland, around Israel, and in what used to be called Yugoslavia.

   Here is a recent, February 17-19, 2003 Gallup Poll that confirms that the more religious, the more likely to support war.

2. Another area where I fault religions is that they survive by trying to make people believe that the Church can in some strange way "save them". Unfortunately, this leads to the belief that you can do whatever you want so long as you: play up to, and pay up to your church.

3. Churches need to have people feel guilty and in need of being "saved." What better way to make people feel guilty than to teach that we are "bad" because they have normal sexual desires. Here is just one of many examples: The religiously righteous believe the sight of a normal nude body will in someway damage the young, the elderly, and corrupt all of society. Unfortunately, this silly notion, has so permeated society that today you can be put in jail for simply letting someone see your body. Thanks to religion, in some places women can't even show their face!

4. Many of the worlds problems such as pollution, starvation, animal extinction and destruction of resources would cease to exists if we would curb the ever increasing human population. But, in some form of arrogance the two churches that I am most familiar with: the Catholics and Mormons teach and practice exactly the opposite.