Priests, Religion, and Morality

Kristin mentioned on her blog today that she called a priest and that we're scheduled for a bunch of meetings that we have to go through before he'll marry us.

Part of this involves a bunch of questions and a compatability test. This of course, creates a major problem for me. For starters, I think the Catholic religion, like all others that I have some famialiarity with, is a complete and total pile of steaming shit that's more corrupt and full of bullshit politics than Washington.

I don't even want a catholic wedding. I'd be perfectly happy being married with a Justice Of The Peace. The problem is, I need to be able to bring my kids up with religion as a part of their life so that they can decide for themselves later on that it's all nonsense and should be avoided. But without having religion as a part of their life, they can't make that choice for themselves. But... the Catholic religion, in yet another bonehead move, won't allow me to baptize my kids if Kristin and I aren't married in a Catholic wedding. So... now comes the moral dilemma. I'm not a liar. I'm a straight-shooter and I tell you how it really is, but now I have to lie to the church and tell them all the bullshit that they want to hear so that I can be married in according with the bullshit religion for kids that I haven't even had the opportunity to create yet. I don't like to lie, and that's exactly what I have to do as part of this bullshit excercise.

How the hell does a single parent raise a catholic kid who was born out of wedlock? Are they not allowed into the church either?

I wish that there were more people who would wake up and realize that religion is a bullshit idea that's nothing but a creation by PEOPLE who don't want to deal with the fact that when you're dead you're gone. Everybody around me is so blinded by the bullshit that they're unable to see religion for what it is, and for fear of retribution, continue blindly believing in something that is so riddled with bullshit and lies and couldn't possibly be taken as truth by anybody with even a fleeting moment of mental clarity.