"---just what I was going to say. And then I was going
to ask "is it not a contradiction then that you want us to worship you?" to rephrase a line from a cartoonist friend of mine's book.
"
Why on earth would you want to worship a 60-year-old, gray-haired guy with arthritis in his knees?
I meant "worship" in the hyperbolic sense of honoring
one's opinions---I twisted my friend's line in the cartoon, which features a beanie-wearing alien zombie asking "Is it not a contradiction then that we worhip him?"
abouit some Alien Entity who is their planet's Grand Poobah. But frankly as far as "religion" goes, my money, or lack of it, has always been on Zen Buddhism, whose objective has always been one thing and one thing only,
MENTAL HEALTH.