Ex-Christians

Just as a child wishes Santa was real, I wish there was a God, and one who could feel The weight of the world and have every answer To war, disease, famine, terror, and cancer. Because after spending so many years, Of praying countless prayers and crying endless tears, It hurts one to know that it was all for naught, As a child, it was something I never was taught. I believed because life is so hard on my own, I believed out of fear of being alone. I believed for an answer, I believed for a guide, I believed because I wanted someone by my side. Like a child has to surrender an imaginary friend, I knew that eventually, my belief had to end

George Anslinger is a millionaire who has a morbid fascination with dragons; and with anything that might be mistaken for dragons, including alligators and crocodiles. He inherited a restaurant from his father, Samuel Anslinger, who went missing during a sailing trip. George believes, with all the fervor of a fundamentalist preacher, that his father was eaten alive by alligators, and that all alligators must die. Upon inheriting his fatherÕs restaurant, he redecorated the walls with images of knights battling fire-breathing dragons. He adopted the nickname St. George, after the fabled dragon slayer. He insists that dragons are real, but