I'm sorry about that. I got overwhelmed and I sort of bugged out. In my meltdown I left a few things undone.

But first and foremost a note about apologies unrelated:

If I've offended you because I directly attacked you, I'm sorry. If I've offended your religion and you're angry with me, take a hike.

Certain religious institutions have gotten a free pass in my comics and in my personal life. Had I known the hurt it would have caused later in life I wouldn't have done it.

Let's face facts... no one religion is any less preposterous than the others. Every one of them has at least one imaginary friend who sits in the sky and watches over us. The Catholic leaders have always been stupid. Apparently if they have to include gays in their little group of people they have to be nice to, they're not going to be nice to anyone. The Jews are so up in arms over people working on Saturday that protests have turned violent in Israel. And the Mormons, who run one of the best welfare systems in the United States, are coming on board.

In their zeal to make friends with the other Christians (who have called them names, slandered and worked against them their entire existence) they have become one of them. They're so intent on making everyone do things their way that they're willing to spend MILLIONS of dollars to push it into everyone else. They've gone from funny jokes about missionaries and polygamy to main stream ill-will.

I'm sure their god will reward them from his polygamous compound circling Kolob. And soon, all of these conformists will have their own polygamous compounds that circle distance stars so they, too can reward their spirit children for forcing their will onto others.

Until then they can pretend they're just as persecuted as the blacks during the civil rights era. You remember them, right? They're the ones that couldn't hold any sort of magical Mormon office because of the color of their skin.

Then they can explain away the genetic markers in Native Americans that prove they're descended from Asians instead of Jews. Their god apparently took all of the Jewish Navajos back to heaven, leaving none on the earth. I'm positive I'll get a phone call the day we find 2000 year old remains of Jews in Misssouri.

Someday, the human race will get the ability to travel between stars and we'll know where Kolob is and we'll be able to tell whoever lives there what we think of their followers. Until then we'll have Scientology-Lite to boss us around.