Just today I received another letter from my good men the Mountain Men.  Below in Black is thier comments and in Red is my response.

10/20/00 3:57:11 PM
Name : The MountainMen
email address :
sinner@cant.think.for.myself.so.i.let.my.make.believe.buddy.jesus.think.for.me.com
Web Page Address : http://www.ffrf.org
Comments : Religion is an impulse to explain. A natural impulse that everyone has and everyone
grapples with. It's an impulse that, sadly and ironically, has been exploited to convince people to
take actions that defy and demean that impulse. The exploiters are (fuck - not these guys again!)
the ruling elite of nearly every society, in every era, and ours is no exception. It's not hard to
understand the false sense of comfort and security of faith that religion provides. A lot of us have
been throuh it and can understand how hard it can be to shake the grip of dogma. Religious
dogma, which is a set of rules, is a tool used by people in power to keep other people
powerless, and to coerce them into serving the interests of the powerful. History is flooded wih
examples of religion used to defend and promote most of humanity's dumbest moves. Like
genocide: the holocaust and the annihilation of the worlds' indigenous populations. Like war: from
the beginnings of "civilization" to the Gulf War and beyond. Like prejudice: the continued
subjugation of women in all the major religions. Like poverty: as a tool of capitalism, religion has
taught the poor to accept injustice. Probably the worst effect religion has on us is its' ability to
create divisions so remarkably deep that people will kill for them. Fuck, scratch at any major
conflict in the world today and just beneath the skin of diplomacy and territorial demands you will
find a fundamentalist, bloodthirsty form of one or more organized religion. Many "progressive"
people involved in religions believe they can work eithin their religious institutions to change them
for the better. It's an understandable desire- we all work within institutions to some extent, but it's
kinda dumb in the same way that the Catholic Church's motivation for wanting to feed the hungry
is kinda dumb: their writings and dogma tell them to. Shouldn't they be motivated by simply
knowing that feeding the hungry is the right thing to do?? People indoctrinated in religions
(including the religions of ideology... not mentioning any names), seem to believe that a moral
code cannot exist outside of their institution. It can and it does. We have the ability (and the
duty!) to do the right thing without the rhetoric of dogmas, the threat of hierarchies or the fear of
some some old coot in a beard firing a fucken lightning bolt at our sinful, hairy, zitty little asses.
The saddest thing about religion is what is lost. Religion, or more accurately, I suppose, the
appropriators and exploiters of religion, have taken our purest impulses of solidarity, compassion,
celebration of the wonder and mystery of our lives, and turned them against us. This, moat of all,
is why I reject religion: so that I can reclaim these impulses for the causes they deserve... love
and justice.
(from Propogandhi- Less Talk, More Rock)
Love, Your friends,
The MountainMen

Gentlemen I have only one question for you which requires a scientific answer, If you cannot answer it scientifically using the strict rules of science then your argument is completely lost.

Q. Where did We and the Universe come from???