The Three Major Religions
The Greeks told beautiful stories, which were light and ephemeral.
I rather doubt that their authors believed them.
The gods they wrote about were as human as humans.
The Jewish prophets were dead serious and concocted a Deity,
who was a celestial dictator and was as merciless as can be.
Judaism spawned Christianity and Islam,
each of which was a progression in guilt and expiation.
The Christians initiated the concept of Original Sin,
which means that the guilt comes with birth.
The Moslems keep their religion pure and don’t contaminate it with compassion.
I personally think that we were better off with the beautiful stories of the Greeks,
and that these weighed-down religions are a throwback in ignorance.
-Herbert Kuhner
