I detest sermons and the rector goes for 20 minutes. I have told her to be merciful but i think she enjoys hearing the sound of her voice.

I good sermon should last no longer than 10 minutes.

got called to do our daily mass with no notice when the scheduled priest forgot about it and left the campus. For the sermon he said, "When I was in major seminary, they told us that in our sermon we should tell people to pray a lot, go to church a lot, and give a lot of money. Amen."

superior you are.

I'll spend some time laughing today and it will be at your mistaken beliefs about yourself which are based solely on your faith.

Atheists have, for years, been telling them stuffy religious types they are too serious, the video attached to the OP is, after all, a group of atheists telling the religious to lighten up and enjoy life, because that's all there is.

While the pope's admonitions were directed toward religious leaders, the admonitions of the author could be applied to many, and he specifically applies them to fellow atheists.

I can see a lot of moral flaws in organized religion, and I point them out all the time. If people's beliefs were logical they would not be beliefs; but knowledge. If people treat their beliefs as if knowledge, that is hardly logical, but who expects logic from anything as illogical as belief? You may be frustrated because you are trying to do the impossible and the fact that you keep trying may be illogical. Are you ready for the implications of that?

I would measure the prospect of gain against the prospect of success and call fighting with organized religion a complete waste of time. Human nature plays so large a part of it all that it will never be over come, but must die of neglect, yours, and theirs.

being in her presence I've likened to being in death. There is no joy, no fun, no empathy. Just a scowl and the pervasive scent of three packs of smoked cigarettes a day.

it'd make you cry!

In the immortal words of Homer (Simpson): "It's funny because it's true!"