What is religion?

Y'know what religion is? A way for people to be hateful, racist assholes without having to own up to it. A way to steal and lie and kill and never be called on it. A way to rally folks to your horrific causes despite having little more in common than fearing the same fucking people. A way to make ignorance a virtue. A way to stand in the way of progress and peace and be called a saint. A way to claim impossible knowledge, uphold the status quo at any cost, and excuse the most monstrous and heinous of crimes, all the while pretending to be a person of love and compassion. Fuck you, and fuck off.

Fuck you, Mr. Harper

Why are the decisions about the planet's long-term health being made by old fucks who'll be dead before the consequences of their ignorance hit home?

I can think of no more misanthropic act than to eat the future, and that's what we're doing by failing to take serious action against climate change. And yet we've just elected a moron who denies the science because it's just too much reality for his sub-median IQ and religious zealotry. Funny how often those things go together.

I wish there were easy answers, but there aren't. The world's getting hotter, weather's getting more extreme, we're on the cusp of an unsustainable population, and there's little being done about it. We're pitched against mega-corporations whose interests are catered to by bought politicians; we've got active dissemination of misinformation from media outlets whose viewership is either too stupid or lazy to do the research themselves.

I really wish I knew what to do, because I'm truly scared for the future of my country and our planet.