Science vs Religion.

The above graphic may seem a little over the top, I mean who in their right minds would drink from the glass on the right? (Personally I would have to be damn thirsty to drink from the one on the left either.)

However it is really not as exaggerated as you might want to believe.

For example in India millions of devoted Hindus travel to the Ganges River for its supposed purification capabilities, but in fact it is terribly polluted and potentially fatal.

There was also a report in 2013 that the holy water used in Catholic ceremonies could prove lethal.

And then of course there are the times when religious people drink what they believe to be miracle water only to discover that it's actually aphid excrement.

But then I guess one could simply rationalize explosive diarrhea as God working in mysterious ways.

If you think about it this is an almost impossible feat. But then again thinking about it, would undoubtedly prove its undoing.

A while back I mentioned that I had a discussion with a Catholic priest which sent him on a three day drinking spree.

Somebody asked exactly what I had said to him, and to be honest I don't remember the entire conversation. 

However I do remember that at one point he called me arrogant for suggesting with certainty that there was no God. And my rebuttal to that was to suggest that true arrogance was believing so firmly that, out of hundreds of possibilities, YOU had discovered the one true religion, and were so positive in that belief that you felt empowered to construct buildings dedicated to indoctrinating people into your faith, frightening children into accepting your faith, and even traveling to foreign lands to disrupt the cultures of the indigenous people to tell them that THEY were stupid and ignorant for not believing in YOUR fact free religious faith instead of their own fact free religious faith.

It was somewhere around then that he erupted from his chair all red in the face, called me a Philistine, grabbed his coat, and disappeared into a whiskey bottle for several days,

Ah the memories!