This is why my skin burns when exposed to holy water

I submitted this as a letter to the editor in the St. Catharines Standard. It remains to be seen if they've the balls to print it, but fuck it, I liked it.

"I was driving with my dad the other day and passed a church with the seemingly innocuous pronouncement that "Salvation is not achieved, but received." I can think of no stronger condemnation for religious thought than this flatly immoral prospect. In one fell swoop the folly of religion is lain clear; your worth is determined by your credulity and not your action. No wonder, then, that the happiest atrocities are carried out by the "godly."

Even if your god does exist - and I submit that the case has never been made - he would still be a petty tyrant worthy of naught but scorn and derision. Our greatness as a species stems from cooperation and community; let us move beyond the artificial barriers of religion once and for all. Our survival depends on it."