A 'Toon's Prayer

It's ironic, or perhaps not, that religion, one of the driving forces behind all human activity since Gods and demons were first conceived of, is also at the root of so much human dysfunction. How much hatred, how many wars, how much death and destruction can be traced straight back to religious belief? One can also hypothesize that the myths and tales, the creatures and deities that are at the heart of religion came from the same place deep in the human psyche that produces art, linking some of the most sublime beauty ever to be created by mankind to some of the worst horrors. What terrible glitch in the soul causes people to want to force their concept of the Almighty on everyone else? Who could be so cold and unfeeling as to deny a cartoon character his impulse to worship the Great Cartoonist Above, who giveth and taketh away with pencil and eraser?