Confessions of a Lapsed Atheist

I started to reply to an entry about faith by jenniferjames in private, but by the time I was done, I had a huge monstrous e-mail on my hands and it had gone way beyond what I meant to send to her. I guess there was a lot inside me, trying to get out. So at the risk of alienating even more people, here it is:

( This is really, really, really long - enter at your own risk )