Reply #15: Well, I wasn't exactly invited to speak about god,

[John Gauger]

but I find it unconscionable that I am expected to sit back and let her suffer under her delusions. The realization that the question of why doesn't really warrant my attention was a great relief to me, and as somebody with a history of depression I thought it was my obligation to help her in any way that I can.

I spoke to a friend today that said she had already decided that she is going to tell her children that Santa Claus is real (I guess she's like twenty.) She said it's a nice little myth for children to believe in. I asked her what benefit she thought that it could possibly bestow to her children, but she didn't say anything. I don't know about the rest of you, but when I was a kid I was pretty pissed when I found out all that shit they told me wasn't real. I'm still pissed about that "your vote counts" bullshit.