My biggest fear is that this new quest is about producing 'products' for profit and cornering the market rather than out of any altruistic desire to help human beings...

When fields that were thought, and planted, organic show up with GM plants there, it's obvious to me that there isn't any way to control the spread of 'nature'.

Given that the average drug isn't tested for what genetic mutations might occur over the long term, the very idea that someone can state that their 'frankenstein' creation won't turn on the human race is just plain ridiculous...

The costs of playing god for profit could very well turn out to be the massive extinction of the entire human race and very well many other species on this planet...

No one can dare to presume to know what some 'manufactured' organism is going to do 'in the wild' but you can definately predict the profit margin and stock price of the corporation that makes the better mouse trap. Given the 'truthiness' quotient in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries we have every right to be concerned...

I've bounced from one 'religion' to another most of my life.

I've gone from the mostly sane Episcopal church to a militaristic and frightening southern style 'fire and brimstone' one to a fundie superstitious wacko type 'speaking in tongues' church.

All have had weaknesses... All have bugged me on one level or another...

I try to lead a 'good' life. I help people where I can and treat people as the deserve.

What bugs me about the 'religions' that I've seen and witnessed is that they have not dealt well with the vices that infect human society. It's something to be sitting in church and hear people ripping others in the church for what they wear, how they look, where they live, how they act, who they date or are married to, what their children do or how many children they have...

Some religions seem to bring out the worst in people and magnify that for all to see but in those 'religions' everybody’s worst is magnified too... One 'calvary' style church I attended forbid music and watching movies... Fear of being exposed to reality...

I realized that you can't be shielded from reality because it's all around us... Bad things happen, people get sick and die. Religion tends to control and influence and some use fear to extract devotion. Religion isn't that way because it has to be that way.

Then there's the whole dichotomy of the 'old testament' versus 'new testament' religions. Religions based on the old scare the shit out of me. Very heavy on the psychological assaults and light on the feel good parts...

We are all in this together. We need to learn to transcend the often warped results of human mental illness and its effects on religion and support each other. Being in a religion doesn't make someone better or more virtuous, just the same...

When I started questioning the edicts of the pastor in the calvary style church I was attacked physically by several members of the church. How's that for an eye opener... They banned John Denver because he advocated the use of drugs... 'Rocky Mountain High'?

I prefer to live my life outside of organized religion thank you. The smug and self-righteous idiots can keep their mental illness... One look at the 'man of god' George W. Bush and his minions and the 'man of god' Sam Brownback ( and the legions of others from Falwell, Robertson, Donahue, etc) ought to be enough to frighten most thinking humans out of religion...

It's all the same Kabuki theatre...

Where the 'truth' falls to the Ginsu knives of the editors and hacks and is cooked down in the Wok of partisanship. What you have left no closely resembles the truth as much as cow shit looks like grass... Ahh, but those exaggerated movements and the hypnotic music...

Opiate of the masses. Such a powerful tool...

Makes people actually wonder if there is 'truth' anymore... Who's truth...

When you have the attorney general of the United States making outrageous interpretations of the constitution and bill of rights concerning habeas corpus and his other minions and sub-hacks interpreting practically every law currently on the books looking for some micron sized opening to wiggle Bush's new increased powers, I've come to a new respect for the judicial 'experts' in the republican party and Bushist religion.

They are the most ruthless, immoral and cunning thieves and scoundrels on the planet... If Saddam had them on his side or yes, Hitler, one can only wonder the vast amount of damage that the world would be now operating under...

They are cowards and are the ones who should, and hopefully will, have their backs against the wall when a saner (if possible) inhabitant moves into the white house.

Treason and firing squads are too good for these religiously motivated legal hacks... The religion is the worship of raw and ruthless power... So far the world has been their victim...

I'm disgusted... Proud to be an American? I only hope that the rest of the world realizes that America is being driven by criminals and cowards... I empathize with the Iranians reacting to their 'clown car crazy' leader...