Taxi Driver

[Homeless Nutter]

Yeah, well - all religious people seem to have some - more or less convoluted - way of rationalizing their supposed choice of faith. Naturally, the truth in most cases is, that they were forcibly indoctrinated by their particular religion/denomination, before they even knew other faiths existed, or indeed before they could reliably distinguish reality from fantasy. But they couldn't simply admit that, because that would allow too much room for troublesome question, whether they were lucky enough to have been born into the "right" system of beliefs. Hence all the conflicting narratives and trash-talk between religions.

The only thing that seems to be able to unite all the different kinds of theists - however briefly - is atheism, because it undermines the whole concept of believing in nonsense and paying money for it. That's when a catholic and a protestant, a muslim and a hindu, a baptist and a slightly different kind of baptist can pretend to put their differences aside and allow for one another's existence, each trying to somehow justify believing in fairy-tales, by not being the only ones to do so.

But it's good to remember, that it's by no means an easy, or a reliable coalition and that at the end of the day, deep down they all consider each other deluded, abhorrent and damned...