Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy the beauty of the morning. “And it felt more spiritual than any time I set foot in a church,” he recalled.

Nothing has changed that view in the ensuing decades.

“Most religions are there to control people and get money from them,” said Dulak, now 76, of Rocheport, Missouri. He also cited sex abuse scandals in Catholic and Southern Baptist churches. “I can’t buy into that,” he said.

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    Even religious groups hate organized religion. They just make an exception for the one they happen to be part of.

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      How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one

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        Ricky Gervais said something super interesting to Stephen Colbert, who is a Catholic. It was something like “We actually agree on a lot more than you think. You think that thousands of other religions aren’t true. I think the same thing, plus one more.”

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        Sometimes I wonder what Abraham would think knowing literal billions of people worldwide worship the god he made up.

        And what he thinks about how all the different sects all hate each other so much.

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      The one thing most religions agree on is that all other religions should be eradicated from the world until only the true one remains. Turns out they are ALL right!