bonebroke

What you say both impresses and angers me....I am definitely with you on the main idea... Having grown up in a small town, smack in the middle of the bible belt of the South, I have seen the worst hypocrisy known to humanity.... and been accused of it myself! (after all, a girl that has tattoos, crayola hair color, sexual freedom, confidence and a brain cannot POSSIBLY be a "Real" Christian... according to the dumb ass rednecks) And some of the kindest and coolest people I know are either athiestic or have fallen away from all religious practice.
However, please do not lump all of us 'religious' people together like you have in your comment. Some people, like myself, have a deep and abiding faith, yet are also able to function in society without being an overzealous nutbag! Granted, my Christian education was extensive, logical, historical, cerebral, and taught with kindness, so I guess I am against the norm... but there are still many others of us who live by the 'eleventh commandment'.... or to love one another as He first loved us....