Interesting proposition, faith and religion...indistinguishable and worse, one without the other hanging in the wind has no sails.

Like magic tricks with the trickster and his slight of hand, the faint being the key, the magic ensues there in plain sight.

As you wonder about the peddlers and the suffering each inevitably feel, it will soon unleash the truth. Nothing of value can withstand a lie over time. Unless...

Memes become us. Alas, we humans are the only creatures of mind and spirits who easily find themselves biting on pieces, grabbing for parts...consuming crumbs and the likes while believing what another tells us... celebrate , its a full meal, a nurturer's delight.

Such is the mind of the lesser souls. Sad. And far worse, abundantly so.

Thanks for your treatise and its illumination into the darkness of what has become of us., religion a delight when the lost and fearful seek the ease of what comes easiest, blindly foregoing to another...as only faith could deem it.

Eric