This one's for the religious people (grumpy rant)

[andygates]

You're all idiots.  Lock yourselves in a nice dark pit and fight it out, won't you?  I'm sick of being told I should give a damn about one set of invisible sky daddy rubbish or another.  I don't.  I never will.  The two-thousand-year-old one is no more nor less preposterous than the fourteen-hundred-year-old one, and don't whatever you do expect me to take sides just because I'm a white guy who grew up near some other white guys who think that the two-thousand-year-old-one is groovy.

I've rejected you all.  You all failed my basic tests.  Hell, you failed my tests when I was fourteen.  The only relevance you have is a dull background throb of tradition, but frankly, Dean Street and church bells are on an aesthetic and romantic par with a minaret and a call to prayer.  If you tell me "but they are horrid to X-group" well, tough titty, you're horrid too.  You've all got obsolete irrelevant morality based on fossil books written by people who were nothing like you. 

Frankly if Jesus came down to Earth dancing a can-can with Mohammed right now, I'd ask why they both came up with such bollocks. 

So please, take your jumped-up desert wights* and feck off because the rest of us, we can just get along.  The only thing stopping us is you fantasist nutters and your un-debateable a priori declarations of faith.  I can't debate those: debate takes place within a framework of a priori declarations.  There's no point.  Might as well discuss gun control with an American.  And that faith queers the pitch for everything you touch.  Holy Land?  It's a fucking desert full of burned-out vehicles and sheep skulls.  Big fucking deal.  You want to waste the attention and resources of the world on a scrap of dirt because an old book says it's nifty?  You go on right ahead and fuck each other up all you like.  Don't expect me to give a runny crap.  And don't expect me to tolerate you poisoning anyone else with that drivel you call belief either.

Yeah.  Right now I'm pretty much channelling Dawkins. 


* Best description evar, RB. 

Comments

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

The really sad, pathetic, effing tragic part of this whole deal is that it's not even [insert Deity here]'s fault. It's entirely the fault of the people. We're back to that whole tribal thing, and how we are still fundamentally apes fighting over territory. The only difference between humans and chimps screaming at one another is that the humans are fighting over land with cultural significance.

Way to go culture. For every Sistine Chapel there's a suicide bomber. For every Miserere there's a 4 year old evangelist yelling that we're all going to burn in Hell.

Personally I'd be quite happy to round them all up, dump them in their desert with a load of ordinance, and let them fight it out. Once they've killed each other we can either put an impassable fence around the survivors and keep them as an exhibit (When Culture Goes Wrong) to show the grandkids, or bury the remains if there are no survivors.

I have no time for fundamentalists of any stripe. Simply because THEY'RE MISSING THE DAMN POINT.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

It's entirely the fault of the people.

JC: "God is love"

Fred Phelps: "God hates fags"

I can't really disagree with you, can I? :)