Maybe I'll have more energy later, but right now I'm just so weary. Weary from being told I have no morals. Weary from hearing I will go to a place called hell when I'm dead. Weary from listening to the fundamentals of science being mangled. Weary from hearing religious righteousness. Weary from watching news of murders in the name of some god. Weary from the vigilance I need to exercise to keep religion out of my government and off of my body. Weary from having to ask for real data when an assertion about some god is made. Weary from being inundated by religious rhetoric. Weary from seeing people go hungry, homeless, and uneducated while preachers get rich. Weary from having to work harder to afford property taxes when religious, property-owning institutions do not. Weary from being treated like a pariah for not sharing someone's god. Weary from being polite when someone says they will pray for me. Weary from seeing religion everywhere when the non-religious are treated as though they are evil. Weary from knowing that if I spent a week walking around in a shirt praising jesus I would get high fives but be mocked if I did the same in a shirt announcing I am atheist. Weary from reading Facebook and tumbler posts saying atheists should be killed. Weary from knowing that some people who think I am a decent sort would change their mind based on my atheism instead of my behavior. Weary from not feeling free to announce my atheism in my place of work and not be targeted, unlike those who feel free to announce their religious beliefs. Weary from hearing that atheism is an 'easy way out' when it is consuming so much of my energy. The list goes on...

(Obviously have an earworm of Madeline Kahn in Blazing Saddles singing "I'm Tired"...and perhaps you do now too :-) )

So I think I'll go to bed early tonight, read a good book, drift off to sleep, and pick it all back up tomorrow.

But why do I pick it back up? Why do so many of us pick it back up?