Reasons for being an Atheist

[popeyespappy]

That's petty. At least the priest at my friend's funeral could say that his assholishness was backed up by Catholic doctrine.

It’s all good. The church is (was?) located on forest service land. They had worked an arrangement with the Forest Service in the twenties when the government acquired the property to pay some paltry annual rent. My uncle had been making the payments for decades. When he died apparently no one even knew there was a rent so it didn’t get paid. A couple of years ago the church approached the Forest Service about expanding the cemetery. After which the Forest Service figured out none had been paying the rent. The church was forced to raise a shit load of money in order to buy a nearby nicer and much larger piece of land so they could swap it for the property the church sits on. Now instead of an annual rent part time help at McDonalds could afford they have a mortgage payment on a couple of hundred thousand dollar loan.

http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_e...ject=41411