Lackeys
If you'd obey a god so petty and vain (I don't like your god and I don't like you.) That his price for non-belief is torture and pain. (I've scraped nicer shits than you from under my shoe.) If you...
View ArticleBecause I Wanted To Put “Stephen Green”&“Heartwarming” In The Same Title…
So Birdshit Green approaches those oft-fabled Pearly Gates (Which, by the way, is proof that God don't punish those who hate) And is met by Simon Peter, who proceeds to book him in—But Green is rather...
View ArticleAggressive Secularisation™
Could someone tell me what this "aggressive secularisation" is, please? I ask because David Cameron recently pledged to oppose it, so it must be real, right? To me, "aggressive secularisation" sounds...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal
Regarding every priest, pastor, imam, vicar, rabbi or other clergy who has made the statement or makes it in the future, "Marriage is for the purpose of creating children, and therefore should only be...
View ArticleI Know I’ve Said This Many Times Before, But…
I've just started watching Ann Widdecombe's little licence-payer-funded exploration of "Why Christians are so picked on these days, with their official status as our state religion, their twenty-six...
View ArticleWiddecombe’s Whinings: Part Two
Well, after posting the previous, I went and got me dinner, had a natter to Dear Old Mater for a while and suchlike mundanities. Then I came back upstairs to watch the rest of the programme on...
View ArticleJust Suppose
Found this rather interesting video, earlier. (I forget where I found the link, so apologies for not giving credit for that.) I must admit, up front, that I don't really have a dog in this...
View ArticleRedemption
You are in a court room, watching the trial of a man who, a year ago, mugged you, forced you to empty your bank-account at a cash-machine, and, for good measure, beat you up so badly that you are now...
View ArticleFaith & Belief
Or: Confused Ramblings About Confusing Word-Usage It's a Barnum-and-Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be, But it wouldn't be make-believe If you believed in me. —It's Only A Paper Moon,Harold...
View ArticleA Creationist Love Song
With apologies to Sam Cooke, Lou Adler and Herb Alpert. Don't know squat about history. Don't know any biology. Don't remember any science I took. In fact I only ever need one Book. But I love Him—I...
View ArticleThe Lord’s Prayer
I recall, some time back, watching one of those TV debates (The Jeremy Kyle show or summat like that) about faith-schools and related subjects. I don't remember much about the debate itself, though it...
View ArticleMorals For Dummies
If you need to look up what's bad about rape and abuse; If the mutilation of children's genitalia requires your use Of a book of instructions from God on high Before you'll condemn it, then my, oh my—...
View ArticleMorals For Dummies Revisited
A few days back, I produced a little post entitled Morals For Dummies. It's not very long, so I'll quote the whole thing in its rather angry entirety, rather than link to it. If you need to look up...
View Article*That* Question
The pastor's working up a theme of sex—red-faced, and so devout—Pounding pulpit, brimstone, fiery Hell, "Resist such Earthly needs!" And I wonder—cynic that I am—how long 'til headlines shout:...
View ArticleDear, Oh Dear, Oh Dear, Oh…
Yes this video really does appear to be real. I had to check the site linked from the description, to be honest; the acting is so OTT cheesy I suspected it might be a Poe. Nope. Real. Sickeningly,...
View ArticleAloha From Hell
This one's for Jonny Scaramanga, who really should have put a health-warning on his latest post! —Daz You may use these HTML tags in comments<a href="" title=""></a> <abbr...
View ArticleActs Of Love
Try reading Exodus from the point of view of an Egyptian farmer, Genesis from the POV of a Shechemite's daughter. Try reading Joshua as a citizen of Jericho. Think what the destruction of Gomorrah...
View ArticleNot Mockery: Analogy
In which I don't so much try to make a new point, as try—yet again—to drive an old one home. I have been accused, at various times and places, of mocking religion. Damn right I do. Any powerful...
View ArticleFear
What a world you live in, you who live in constant dread. If gays can kill your marriage just by loving, If my simple disbelief can turn your eyes to angry red, How badly built your faith must be—so...
View ArticleBedrock
"Oi Moses, get your chisel. I've got a few orders for you to take down. In far-future debates, I'd like your descendents to assert, ad-nauseam, that these commandments are the bedrock of their...
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