Please take a moment to read through this entire post courtesy of Kate and Mark Morford. The tone of the headline, "Your Angry God Will Not Save You Now", is quite misleading in the argument that it presents as it really has more to do with the behavior of mankind and the terrors we create than it has to do with religion at all. I don't even know how to frame this post as an enticement to read the article - it's just a damn fine take on our society and behavior of our species.

The upshot: Environmental and social factors are much more influential in terms of disturbing and damaging the human spirit than previously thought. Which means the liberals had it right all along — the only real way to address mental illness, depression and the like isn’t with drugs; it’s about improving the toxic social climate in which they fester and breed like Tea Partiers in a bathtub of Coors. Imagine that.

And now, the grand finale. For not only does environment play a devious and even deadly role in our socio-mental downfall, but we are often the agents of our own pain. We cause our own deaths, conflicts, illnesses, every single day. We made cancer. Also, we invented war. Turns out we are disastrously good at destroying ourselves. Scientists have found almost no trace of cancer in the mummified remains of bodies from ancient civilizations. It simply did not exist. Is it because they all died too young to suffer from the disease? Maybe. But unlikely. Cancer is, it’s increasingly believed, a lovely byproduct of heavily industrialized, high tech, toxic modern society. We’re soaking in it.

That's a taste of the contents but, honestly, doesn't do the whole thing justice. Please read it and soak in the message; it's worth your five minutes.