Dear God,
I don't believe in you at all. I never really have. Once I realized my own mind, I ditched the Catholic Church just as fast as I could without completely breaking my father's heart and I've never looked back. As I survey history, I think the whole thing about you is, in essence, a ridiculous and maudlin appeal from ignorance and its consequent groundless fear, by people who simply don't have the spine to walk the earth on their own two feet. Bless their hearts; the vast majority of them are good people and I wouldn't wish a thing in the world evil upon them. It's just that I find them generally pathetic in the same way that I would regard a person who's always trying to do his best even if he doesn't really know how.
However, and with all that, if I'm wrong about all this, then I suppose you and I will take it up in person one fine day, and I'll only tell you that you'd better be ready, because I think I have a damned good case.
In any case, here's what this note is about:
I am not a praying man. However, if you're really there and can take my stipulation in the best spirit that I can intend, then I wonder if you could see to it that this bloody soft-sell commie Barak Obama is elected president the next time around. Here's the thing; see, it would be very cool if you could arrange things so that if this guy gets to the white House, then we wouldn't have to put up with anymore haranguing and breast-beating about "the first Black president", and then maybe disgusting creeps like Jesse and Sharpton would finally sit down and shut the fuck up, and we could really get on toward realizing Martin's dream about "the content of character" and not "the color of skin". You know? Maybe, if we turn this large corner, then a lot of the lying bullshit surrounding that eminently noble ideal, these days, would be disarmed and finally go away.
You know what I mean? If you're really there, then you know. Just make it stop, would you? If you're what people say you are, then you can do it.
Take me if you want me, and have your way with me. Just make this stop. For America's sake.
Thanx. Have a nice eternity.