once bit, twice skeptic

you can guess my reaction to boy-who-cried-wmd's "certainty" that an elite iranian military unit supplied iraqi irregulars with sophisticated arms: i'm from missouri!

both xianity and islam count believing without seeing among the highest virtues and promise great rewards for it. that's one of the main reasons those faiths are so successful and why "faith" is a synonym for "religion." the elephant in the room—i just know i'm going to run that phrase into the ground till the whole world gets sick of it—is that you don't collect till you die.

but i'm a skeptic: blind faith is neither piety nor patriotism, it's suckerdom. i demand a down payment: show me the evidence!

if it's no better than you showed 4 years ago, you'll do without my support, as usual.