they were discussing religion

                               were prompted by the freak state of Louisiana its legislators voted to require the Ten Commandments be posted in every Public school

Tellinya man if I were in schoolnot tha Id ever live in Louisiana butif let the defacing begin I didnt care for the Commandments when I studied them in church during my First Holy Communion indoctrination

                                                                                                     Which didnt keep

You?

       You had a Holy Communion?

You did too

I did.

Seek it on your own

No, my parents insisted.

Mine too  Confirmed

No.

Me neither Tha bout was plenty for me

                                          Ive rarely attended since  For baptisms weddings

Likewise.

Your folks religious

My Mom.

My folks insisted they were but I never went to church with them

                                                                     Except for baptisms an weddings

My Mom took us kids every Sunday.

Donuts an milk afterwards

he laughed

When you quit

Not until I went away to college.

Fuck

       All through high school

Yes.

My condolences

                  The Commandments belong in churches religious schools  Not public   Those poor bastards

But ifso then every other religions artefacts ought be displayed with equal zeal

                                                                                   Doubt tha

Religious white.

Lotsa black brown an yellow people live there

You think those people are represented in government according to their percentage of the population?

Good point good point Religious whiteys shoving shit down peoples throats  Derbys dose

Please.

        Let’s not.

Ahmon  Jamaica mon

Awright

         When I met you were agnostic

You remember that?

Memory Yes

             Not the bane of my existence  Of others  But nowadays you describe yourself as an empiricist

Yes. You remem . .

. . Yah Whawas your evolution

                                  Briefly after being agnostic you referred to yourself as an atheist a humanist

Out of college I was an atheist.

Must have sent your mother over the moon

I didn’t return to my parents’ home after college. We didn’t discuss it.

Awright  Number One atheist

                               Two

I vied back and forth between atheist and antithesis.

So twothree threetwo

As a manner of speaking, yes.

Humanist

Briefly. Didn’t stick.

Then

Then as now, an empiricist.

                               You?

I remain an atheist

                     If I choose not to rile the Indians shakeup the tribe I say Im secular

My brother asked recently

I said I was secular

He said You understand that’s a cult.

Made me laugh

                  Hes a funny guy

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