Every village has an idiot, and Framingham makes a concerted effort to welcome all of them. In Framingham, idiots grow on trees. Framingham is one of the largest idiot orchards! Not all our idiots are complete idiots. Some have missing parts. Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction - studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony - decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties - the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies. The moment you accept that there is a god, your life gets magically transformed into a horrible fantasy, whose prime directive is to kill the unbeliever. That would be that person who is telling you that you are walking around naked without a god. These religious idiots have given up both their freedom of inquiry and their critical thinking faculties to enjoin a world of idiotic bliss. The sex drive is one of the basic components of all living things. It's basic to life. It's sad to deliberately deprive oneself of something so biologically central to your being. But we do have a lot of idiots (talk to David W. Cunis about his views on masturbation). That ought to be a hoot! Nonetheless, we have idiots (shamans) who practice celibacy in our catholic churches. It's amusing to think that every day, tens of thousands of Framingham residents experience a fear of going to hell, a non-existent place of eternal punishment. These people are part of two BILLION people, who every single day, get down on their knees and/or hands and grovel to an imaginary creature (four BILLION on weekends) and I suspect that they are also part of those people who get run over by trains and fall off cruise ships. It takes a special skill to get run over by a train. Their utility to science is limited to serving as test subjects for cosmetics and pharmaceutical concerns and perhaps the armaments testing industry.

Temple Beth Am: They both look so fabulous together!

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