I love Halloween. I think it is one of the best holidays in the entire Calendar! It is second only to, perhaps, Canada Day although it would be hard to call the race.
Recently, on several blogs I’ve been reading how much more superior the belief in “The ONE true god” is oh so much better than all that polytheism, whichever of the many one true gods happens to be in vogue at the time. This my god is better than your god is really amusing but let us take this down the slippery slope of reason.
If one god is better than many gods, what is the logical next step?
No god.
I am not an atheist, nor a monotheist. These pseudo-logic tautologies by people who know neither logic nor much about anything at all from their own written statements are starting to get on my nerves. It is true that you can get people to believe things that are endlessly repeated, just look at all the old political wives tales and ask any marketing company what repetition is worth. Repetition is worth a lot. Repetation is worth so much that people pay billions of advertising dollars to repeat themselves over and over again and again.
The old gods, as much as many old things in life, are often the best gods. The blanket knit 100 years ago by great-grandma will keep you warmer than any box store thin as a sheet blanket you can find.
On another Halloween note a little definition I've been working on: Communism where you have the right to meaningful work but may not be able to consume things like food or shoes. Capitalism where you have the right to buy as many iPhones as you like, but you had better scrape and grovel to the boss and hope there is a profit in selling you food.
Economics has always been dressed up for Halloween.
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