Thoughts of a Freethinker

Here is my tongue-in-cheek prediction for 2026: A best-selling book on starting a new religion will be published. An op ed in the Wall Street Journal  told of the author's need to find a Catholic Church every time he moved to a new city. He wrote of the pleasure he found in the services and friendships he made in parishes. Do-it-yourself religion, he wrote, leaves a hole in the soul that requires going to a church.  We know the Bible preaches that very idea. To properly conduct the Christian business there must be at least two people and more is even better. To not go to church is to be among the "unchurched" and this group needs help. There is an opportunity for new faiths.   On my bookshelf is one called Church of the Giant Spaghetti Monster. As some readers may recall this book was based on a submission to a state legislative committee which wanted to require Bible training in all that state's schools. The writer created a god called the Giant Spaghetti Monster wh...