Hare Krishna In The Rain
I hadn’t seen them on Oxford Street for some years, but they were there last week in the rain.
Hare Krishna in the Rain
We may think of them as harmless religious nutters.
But a couple of years ago, I heard their work in improving school sanitation in India widely praised by the Projects Director of UNICEF in a lecture at Emmanuel College in Cambridge.
Farewell Christopher Hitchens
I didn’t agree with everything Christopher Hitchens said, but at least he had it right about religion and was always worth reading.
The world will be a worse place without him.
Probably if he hadn’t smoked he’d still be here.
In some ways smoking is the most selfish vice, as it annoys all the people around you and then when it kills you, it leaves your family in total distress.
He was eminently quotable.
The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me.
[Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?
There are lots more like these.
Am I Lucky Or Does The Devil Look After Me?
Throughout my life, I’ve often been described as lucky and several times, positive things seem to happen to me by chance.
For instance, I met my late wife at Liverpool University, when I manipulated a scheme for students to get partners for one of the guild balls.
I ended up in Metier, after a chance meeting outside an opticians on Great Portland Street.
I’ve also been mentored well, by a lot of friends, who would never be described as conventional. Some sadly are no longer with us.
and I could give lots more examples.
Even on Monday, when I had the tooth exorcised from my body, I did the right thing, as it needed three hours and three dentists.
So is it luck or do some quickly weigh up the chances and make the right decision? I do know that my late wife would never describe me as boring and is that because I never throw any possibly useful information away from my brain. Since the stroke, I have lost some memory, like knowledge of who did this or that. But there is always Wikipedia!
As I don’t believe in any religion and believe organised religion is just another way to screw wealth out of the poor, then I can’t think that a devil exists either. Although after my last few years, it is more likely there is a devil, than a loving and peaceful god.
But then I’m a London mongrel! And they have more fight than a wagon-load of pit-bulls.
Evangelical Christians and AIDS
It is claimed in this report, that three people have died because they have been convinced by evangelical christians, that prayer rather than drugs can cure their AIDS.
The religious nutters should be prosecuted, before they confince others.
BIlly Connolly Uses a Bible for a Roll-Up
Billy Connolly has confest to using pages from a Bible to make a roll-up. This is one of several reports.
I always wondered why they went to the expense to put a bible in hotel rooms. Now I know why!
I Thought Spain Was a Catholic Country
There is news today, of protests today over the visit of the Pope to Spain.
The authorities say that the visit is self-funded, but with record youth unemployment and other problems , the protestors feel the money could be better spent.
If the Pope really wanted to help this world he could change his stance on birth control. Something that is used by most Spaniards.
If This Man is a Preacher, I’m a Zebra
I’ve read about quite a few child abuse and mad religious cases, but this surely is the worst I’ve ever seen.
Warren Jeffs reputedly had seventy-nine wives. That sounds like seventy-nine too many for their sake!
I would feel that nearly every good Christian, Jew, Muslim, Humanist, Hindu, Sikh or Athiest, feels that if someone needs to be locked up as a menace to women and children, it is Warren Jeffs.
What Is A Pastafarian?
The answer’s here!
It shows that the Austrians have a better sense of humour than I thought!
Scottish Independence! Surely Northern Ireland Needs It!
Yet again, Northern Ireland is rioting and causing mayhem.
If we are giving the Scots and the Welsh a degree of independence, in these times of austerity, shouldn’t we cut Northern Ireland adrift and leave it to its own resources?
I just don’t like seeing bigots burning my taxes as a form of entertainment! Perhaps, they should impose a local income tax!
Every Religion Seems To Have Its Mad Side
When I read stories like this, I despair of religion. I suspect most of my practicising friends do too!
Sometimes, there seems to be a contest to see which religion can be the maddest and cruelest.
Why can’t they stick to the agenda that most religions seem to agree on, about looking after your fellow man and trying to make the world a better place?
Surely stoning a dog to death doesn’t do that! Especially, as they’ve asked the local children to do it.
The Anonymous Widower 