DEEP SINATRA

There are things about organized religion I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. Remember they were men of God who destroyed the educational treasures at Alexandria, who perpetrated the Inquisition in Spain, who burned the witches at Salem. Over 25.000 orginized religions flourish on this planet, but the followers of each think all the others are miserably misguided and probably evil as well. In India they worship cows, monkeys and a dip in the Ganges. The Moslems accept slavery and prepare for Allah, who promises wine and revirginated women. And witch doctors aren't just in Africa. If you look in the Los Angeles papers of a sunday mornig, you'll see the local variety advertising their wares like suits with two pair of pants.