the water people
One of the toughest things to do in life is to abandon or question your faith. One of the bravest things you might do is assert your position as a sceptic, or worse yet, a non-believer. For what that would mean is committing yourself to lose all your privileges - the kinds that keep you floating. And not only have you sunk your ship deliberately, no boat will take you, and you will have no God to help you grow gills as to survive in the water. And how ironic is it for the community to ostracise a person for doubting when they preach about love, generosity, and acceptance in the church's pews? Were they alcoholics, recovering addicts, or perhaps an adulterer or someone who violates women, oh if the fates had been kind enough to make them turn to actual sin and not the man-made construct of sinful intellect! Well, the boats would have taken them before their fingers pruned from the salty water. For those sins can be masked with poetic and enthusiastic spiritual rebirth, and on...