DISQUS

Thanks for describing exactly why I believe Christianity and Islam should be relegated to the past. If you live as the proponents of those religions preach, you exist only to prepare yourself for your life in heaven, the 'hell' with everything in the here and now, thus the justification for our continued willful injustices on the poor and the propagation of war. It all just doesn't matter since we're going to heaven anyway -- as long as we admit we're flawed.
I, like Will, am making the most of this life everyday and I remember that my actions do have consequences on the quality of my life in the future and the quality of life for others (an instinctively moral concept devoid of religious pretense). Oh, I do have a son, and I teach him to do the same thing.