re: #1 WhatEVs

When connected kids see what religion bears, the likes of Santorum and multiple groups like the Catholic League, the Family Research Council, and Westboro who write editorials, tweet, blog, and disrupt funerals (for crying out loud!), etc.; all completely hateful stuff under the guise of their religion, how can it not turn them off of religion as a whole?

Electing this Pope has likely done more for religion than anything in the last 30 years.

For many it is not enough to consider religion, though. You cannot overcome the negatives with one high-profile positive.

That and a lot of people now understand that the supernatural is imaginary. This pope’s good deeds. and he is better than the rest, do not make up for the fact that religion is an absurd hoax to anyone who actually takes the time to think it through.