I Hope Tomorrow Is Like Today

Went brewfesting with Juss- it was a good time, but I felt icky most of Monday. That's the one thing I hate about drinking. The post-drinking ickies. Ran into a boy we knew from HS- cute kid now. Kind of intimidating back then. So I'm reading that 'The End of Faith' book and wow- most of it seems like opinionated anti-muslim BS, but there was this one section that I just read last night:

It is no accident that people of faith often want to curtail the private freedoms of others. This impulse has less to do with the history of religion and more to do with its logic, because the very idea of privacy is incompatible with the existence of God. If God sees and knows all things, and remains so provincial a creature as to be scandalized by certain sexual behaviors or states of the brain, then what people do in the privacy of their own homes, though it may not have the slightest implication of their behavior in public, will still be a matter of public concern for people of faith.

He goes on to discuss how the drug laws in the U.S. are ridiculous because 1) if drugs were legalized, then we could devote more of the national budget to education or medicare or anything really rather than constantly having a staff to deal with drug busts and such and 2) marijuana is far less addictive or damaging than alcohol, which is still very legal. Interesting stuff- can't say I agree with the entire book, but that section was not something I had really thought about. I'm going church capturing tonight or maybe tomorrow.