But seriously, I hope you all had a great holiday with your family and friends!

Seriously, if you sense that a post with religious overtones was posted for the purpose of irritating non-believers, then have it it. Otherwise you’re responding to the unintentionally irritating with intentional rudeness (and rudeness is by its very nature intentional). That ain’t cool. For the purpose of working through this intellectually, assume that I too am an atheist. For the purpose of working through this socially, assume that I am prone to be irritated by those who don’t go through this world with a live and let live attitude regardless of their personal beliefs. And for the purpose of trying to figure out the true nature of the person who writes Dash Riptide, assume nothing.

“In 2000, most of the religious adherents in the state were Evangelical Protestants with the Southern Baptist Convention claiming 1,719,484 adherents in about 3,233 congregations. Mainline Protestants included 570,674 United Methodists, 105,774 USA Presbyterians, and 71,950 Episcopalians. Catholic adherents numbered about 374,185. Judaism claimed about 93,500 adherents and there were about 38,882 Muslims. Only 16 Buddhist and 15 Hindu congregations were reported, without membership numbers. About 55.2% of the population were not counted as members of any religious organization.”

Then Jesus said to them, “do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me”.
Matthew 28: 10

They were not reported to be wise men nor were they on their way to Church, otherwise this may not have occurred. The three suspects were from Heathen City aka Land of Concrete and Crime – ATL.

Our street level MPD Officers performed immaculately.