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I believe in an organized principle behind existence, a wisdom at the core of the chaos, but I do not believe in any religion. I believe that belief in an omnipresence is moot in some ways and that no omnipresence would care whether you choose to believe in it or a non omnipresence. If an omnipresence allows for the possibility of dissent, it must not care about whether it is worshipped or not or else it comprehends that all stories are true. I believe that certain thoughtforms have asserted themselves in the collective unconscious through our misplaced worship and repressed desires and have poisoned the well. They want people to persecute, act selfish and harm each other in the pursuit of power. It is these gods that we have allowed to be through our directed, thoughts, prayers, actions and desires. These are the gods of the child molester, the bigot and the war monger, people who all think that they're pious and decent but are all slaves to warped, tyrannical archetypes. You are better off worshipping Captain Crunch, the Flash, Cobra Commander or Sephiroth than these people's gods, who are thoroughly different from the gods of good, thoughtful Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, etc. The important thing is you keep up a dialogue with forces that make sense to you, whatever they might be and use the judgment to know which ones will make you a better, more productive, more loving person and which ones will make you a dickface. If you choose none at all over some greedy shithead god that tells you it's okay to touch little children, it's fine by me.
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Horror and Bizarro novelist and editor
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