A very quotable quote

"The natural order of things was falling apart and all sorts of people were beginning to consider themselves equal to those who obviously were equal, which is not what religion was all about." -Eoin Colfer from And Another Thing...

Joseph wan't much of a man, but God was a deserting father...

This made me laught for ages when I read about it in the paper this morning...I mean the religioushites(tm) do go on don't they. It seems the people with the least sense of humour in the world are religious - they get offended by comedians when they go to comedy shows, they think that the bible is not the huge joke it is and take it literally, I mean break out the glum.

The huge ad erected in Auckland shows the unhappy couple in bed accompanied by the slogan: "Poor Joseph. God was a hard act to follow."
In the fresco-style work, Joseph looks down red-faced while an anguished Mary looks to the heavens.
The billboard, which has been vandalised by angry Christians who say it is blasphemous, was erected by progressive Christian church, St Matthew's Rev Glynn Cardy.
Its vicar, Archdeacon Glynn Cardy, said it was a cutting-edge strategy to engage non-believers. [It is humourus at least]
"Progressive Christianity is distinctive in that not only does it articulate a clear view, it is also interested in engaging with those who differ. [Traditional religion doesnt have a clear view either, it's just that they are convinced by themselves that they do]
"Its vision is one of robust engagement."
But the city's Catholic diocese said the implication that Mary and Joseph had just had sex was "disrespectful" and "offensive" to Christians.
Spokeswoman Lyndsay Freer said it was particularly inappropriate given the inference was wrong.
"Our Christian tradition of 2,000 years is that Mary remains a virgin and that Jesus is the son of God, not Joseph," she said.
But statistics show New Zealanders may need such edgy advertising to help spark interest in religion.
The 2006 Census showed that 32.2% - or 1.3 million Kiwis - profess to have no religion, an increase of 270,000 on the previous survey.

A recent atheist fundraising campaign to put controversial "No God" posters on buses was overwhelmed with donations.
Organiser Simon Fisher said the campaign, which mimics one that ran in Britain, was designed to break religious taboos.
"Religion should not be a taboo subject that no one brings up at dinner parties," he wrote on the NZ Atheist Bus website

Ah at last religion attempting to be rational. I will sleep contentedly tonight.

Thanks to bigotry

It is with great pleasure that I would like to invite someone special to the stage.
Please give a very warm welcome to BIGOTRY!!!!!!!!!!!

Wooo! Yeah!!! Show us your tits!!!

It is with prevailing sadness that this above is the attitude accepted and engaged in by most every religious organization and definitely every fanatical or exclusive religious clique in the world shares these wonderful trates. Such as:

Freedom to indoctrinate
Hate
Suffering
Bigotry
Spite
Intolerance
Superiority and Inferiority Complexes
Faith
Blindness

Et cetera ad infinitum.

And they believe these are the ideal qualities to produce a peaceful society, to make it to the most holy of invented places, paradise after death. I mean, seriously???

The Swiss Cheese Analogy

My father has recently rediscovered my copy of "The God Delusion" by the esteemed Richard Dawkins. Now none of this is particualarly odd, nor is Richard Dawkins' excellent deconstruction of faith in which he tears the foundations of religion apart with reasoning and logic expressed in a clear concise manner.

It strikes me as extremely absurd that people can spend their entire lives believing the rubbish which is spewed from the propaganda mills of the religious, without so much as thinking about it or questioning the many gaps and fallacies which are so glaringly obvious in their holy texts and tradional rites. These gaps, or holes, are so consistent throughout religions, not only the christian brands or the islamic brands but all religions that religion itself comes to resemble a block of swiss cheese, it only takes one to notice that if they are buying by the cubic decimetre they are being gibbed out of their money due to all of the holes and air pockets within the cheese. Religion is full of holes, and not at all what it seems, although swiss cheese is beautiful and tastes fantastic, it is riddled with holes which in religions case represent lies, contentious points, miscopied articles, poor tying together of the stories and ammendments over the generations of authors or if you are a theologist: contributors.

Theology-
Now I am wandering on a dangerous tangent and to be honest I can't be fucked pulling this post back onto topic. Does theology not strike you as an entirely worthless study from a belief and a truth perspective. If it were studied solely to understand the psychology of the sheep mentality, mass delusion or belief neuropsychology then it would be understandable, if it were studied for the purposes of history and historical significance only on the value of it';s massive destructive impact on society and the course of many world events then again it would be worthwhile. However, I contend that the study of theology for the purposes of proving or disproving a divine prediciment or creator, or a religions validity in story is entirely and utterly pointless. For those wishing to prove there is a God, studying a book written by mortals is not going to help, for those wishing to disprove the same, basing your counter proof on the fallacy in the first place is hardly an ideal point to come from. People need to look at people who are theologians et cetera and ask, what the fuck is the point, because seriously in either case it is a complete waste of time the religioushites(tm) will never believe there book is not true, or will make excuses in either case and the theologists will never prove that God exists without some form of critical scientific approach.

The harm that theology can do was made extremely apparent to me when listening to the newly elected opposition leader of Australia on the topic of reducing carbon emmisions, "I am not a theological opponent to nuclear energy." Now that is a very vague wishy washy statement isn't it oh and on second thoughts, take a double-take WTF does that mean????