It used to be said that the erstwhile BBC Television Centre was built in the shape of a torus so that the same old ideas could go round and round. Religions and the mechanisms on which they depend are precisely like that - a resonating chamber for the propagation and amplification of the same tired old rhetoric. It's why we see the same shit time after time after time - Hitler was an atheist; evolution is unscientific; Dawkins believes in aliens; irreducible complexity; five minimal facts; carbon dating doesn't work; and so on ad nauseam. Unlike the scientific arena, there's no fact checking, no error correcting, precious little retraction, no motivation for any of these things and every motivation for the opposite. They're not known as unsinkable rubber ducks only because they're fun to hold underwater.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
