Chuckling: “The failure to understand Genesis is literally “undermining the entire word of God,” Ken Ham, the founder of Answers in Genesis, says in a video. The collapse of Christianity believed to result from that failure is drawn out in a series of exhibits: school shootings, gay marriage, drugs, porn and pregnant teens.”

But what if it’s the other way round?

What if Christianity, as practiced, is a whopping failure?

That fails those in need because it has been the vehicle of men like Ken Ham, founder, who see profit and power, the toxic mix of money and ego, even in the body of the Christ.

Aw hell, Christ Himself would be bored to tears and not a little pissed with the video-taped crap of the Ken Hams of this world. Would throw their smarmy asses out of the temple—probably muttering to himself, Christ, again?—and hand the whole thing over to the women. Whom he admired, whom he was close to, and why not, would you give anything deep to men?

One feels sorry for people whose lives are run by their gonads, but you tell me, are they ever in their right mind? I think not.

Step back and for the moment ignore the fact that men have taken the role. Are they really fit ?

Or is it they who constitute the troubled, the baffled and bereft. Who bring eternal grief to the family, to the lives of women and children, to nations. Spiritually damned by that untruthful double life.

In the short time He was alive, Jesus invested in the women around him. Despite the fact they were as respected as sand fleas. Which no doubt aided the idea of his enemies that He was just some kind of nut.

But if you’re at all grown up, you know. The crazy are sane, the meek the strength of the earth, where Buddhists practice Christianity and a celibate Pope honks on and on about sex.

It would be nice to have a true church to turn to, but honey, as we know, Institutions are categorically fucked. I just got some ideas why.

Charming intro, one senses, to a return to authenticity for Paul. No doubt we have Miss Tacky-Nighties to thank. I know I feel better about the man than I have in years … it’s palpable, age, genuine good spirits, never mind the bloody talent. The test will be, shall he have to dis John Lennon again.

Redemption lives in the strangest corners of our lives.

NEW YORK Reuters Health – Continuous treatment with an oral contraceptive combination of levonorgestrel and ethinyl estradiol LNG/EE can safely eliminate menstruation in most women, according to study results appearing in the medical journal Contraception.

The bane of my fucking existence since I ten years old, until some hippie OB-GYN told me that in Europe they take their hormones every day.

And then there was that article in …  The New Yorker? I want to say The Atlantic, but I don’t really want to, if you know what I mean and I think you do.

It was about the Pope—follow me, here—and how the inventor of the pill invented the idea of inducing (that’s all it is) monthly periods so as to seem more “natural.” To the Church? To the Church Fathers? Slice me an unending break.

Fuck ‘em all. For having a single thought of a say-so in women’s suffering lives, never mind the great gasping tragedy of Latin America, never mind that this is the Modern Age, pious bastards. Because they have no business in my sex life or married life or womb, nor anyone else’s. Hey, I don’t go around trying to control how and who and when popes and cardinals and presidents fuck—not but what men might give the subject a tad more thought—and the slightest objectivity reveals how truly bizarro …

Let us not Accept, Oh Lord, that which is Bizarre and Horribly Misbegotten, Resulting in the suffering of Women and Children, Just Because It Is So Widespread it Almost Seems Normal.

Amen.