Well, there's no accounting for taste.  Hence the box office returns for the Transformers franchise.

No.  I am saying that "non-religious" people culturally inherited their moral conceptions from what at some point was an influence from the realm of religious ideas and concepts.

They made a very intelligent point about aggressive atheism as simply another form of dogmatic belief in that multi-part episode with Dawkins and the Otters.  And in the episode where people unilaterally abandon the church but also learn that you can shove food up your ass and shit out your mouth quite effectively. …

Check out The Ninth Configuration.  A great film hard wrought by a thoughtful catholic about doubt, sanity, identity, and faith.  Plus it's riotously funny and has a bad-ass, hyper violent bar-fight scene!

A beautiful articulation, Monsieur Yankee Deer.

"At the end of the day, when we become adults, we should put away childish things"

But can't you see that we have no access to reality, only to symbolic constructions generated by our own consciousness that enable us to (apparently) intra-relate through language?

"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."  Stunning.

It isn't literature, guys.  It's a Holy Book.  Remember that folks used to only get to go up to it and have a wizened holy man who had studied it for 40 years read them snippets in a language they could not understand.  That our access to a Holy Book causes us to equivocate it with entertainment literature is an…

Well, it's no Twilight.  (And endurance is a great skill.)

You just restored my faith in humanity for the day :) And I admire deeply your discipline and exactitude (elements I have abandoned today in the name of soulfulness.)

If you think it is nonsense, then how do you claim to understand it?  I am supposing that by "understand," you mean "I have you pegged and dismiss you accordingly, buddy."

Check out The Rapture.  Seriously.  Ignore the bad 90's hair and a pre-mulder Duchovny.  It's really very beautiful.  I promise you can not go away from that film without being haunted by it.

The 1991 Michael Tolkin film The Rapture is one of the most canny explorations of the difference between faith and religion I have ever seen. A better ending to a film, I have hardly beheld. The complication and lucidity and humanity displayed by this film makes every indie religious critique look so childish by…