Most of my family is nominally Catholic. Only a few are hardcore Christians, and a few more make frequent vague references to religion. I've been been thinking about the word "god." It's a generic word, and in using it to refer to a specific mythological deity, it implies said deity has somehow risen to a level of legitimacy where it becomes synonymous with the generic word. In my head, I've been replacing all references to "god" with "Yahweh," or "Jehovah," or "Allah." That small shift in thinking has shown me, on an emotional level, how indistinct the Abrahamic faiths are from cults and obsolete mythologies. It made me feel sorry for the people in my family who have been indoctrinated into the Christian cult. What systematic abuse! There are so many things we could be thinking about, it's a tragedy to waste a single second on such trifling bullshit.