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andygatesYou'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.
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.
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Date: 2008-02-16 01:26 pm (UTC)Did I really just have that mind picture? Ew.
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Date: 2008-02-16 01:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-16 02:18 pm (UTC)Is it polite to talk over Mr Gates' fence like this, without addressing him directly? (modern manners dilemma No.27, special 'interwebness' edition)
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Date: 2008-02-16 03:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-17 12:25 am (UTC)