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Loopy

There’s a post on the freethinker about an Australian Senator, Nick Xenophon, who has been laying into those loopy Scientologists and been accused of fascism in return. All I have to say is, “Well done, Mr Xenophon!”. Scientology is a joke (Xenu) and it’s adherents are victims who are being conned out of vast sums of cash and otherwise duped with nonsense about thetans, e-meters and auditing. The sooner their sect is accepted as such and dismantled the better.

According to the Guardian article by Marina Hyde mentioned in the freethinker post, the dismantling of Scientology is well underway thanks to the interweb. A little bit of a Google will show you just how ridiculous the ideas behind Scientology are and btw dressing them up as religion is no protection from those with the sense to see through the bullshit. You may be entitled to believe what you want but if you believe in something that is patently absurd, expect to be called to account for it.

Remember, the interweb sees all!

PS Apparently Keith Porteous Wood shot the pope!

1,000 Words

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Excuses & Unconvincing Arguments

It seems it is sometimes difficult for people to understand why I don’t believe in any god and why I think religion is a bad thing. Fortunately there are people better than I at setting down some of the explanations, such as August Berkshire:

• The Top 15 Excuses Religious People Give for the Horrible Behavior of their God;
• 34 Unconvincing Arguments for God.

These are well worth reading by theists and atheists alike!

Hell Ain’t A Bad Place To Be

Yet another example of how crappy religion can be!

Killing a young woman with a hail of rocks because she allegedly committed adultery, despite already being divorced, clearly underlines the depressing consequence of clinging to the idiot rules of stone-age superstition.

What the hell kind of sick monster do people who interpret religious dogma in this fashion worship? What value does a religion that can be interpreted in this way really have apart from as a tool for imposing one’s will through fear? Do these people really think, even the depths of their deepest delusion, that such behaviour is a passage into paradise? If this kind of brutality is the mark of the religiously devout I can’t help but agree with the late Bon Scott that “Hell Ain’t A Bad Place To Be”.

And by the way, the other Abrahamic religions aren’t always that much better! Witness the case of the Rabbi and alleged drug-dealer who offered cocaine in exchange for sex.

Charming.

I do know, by the way, that not everyone of faith behaves so despicably. But the number that do is just far too high.

Bye, Bye, Burley?

The following series of headlines greeted me when I turned to Google Reader this morning:

Usually a football manager gets a few days, or even a week’s, grace between the announcement that says his position is safe and the one reporting his likely sacking. Looks like George Burley only deserves 8 hours!

Or does he?

I had to wonder, as I clicked through to find that both headlines linked to the same article, which doesn’t seem to imply a threat that dismissal is, in fact, imminent.

Bet then I found this item, Burley set to lose Scotland post (which I guess the later RSS entry should have linked to), does suggest that it’s not looking too good for Mr. Burley.

Which is rather fitting because that’s how Scotland have been looking (NOT TOO GOOD!!!) for long enough!

I think it is time for a new Scotland manager.

But, of course, even that won’t help unless the player’s get their act together as well.

Time…

…there’s never enough!

At the moment, I don’t know where it’s all going. I haven’t found time to do much blogging lately. in fact, I haven’t even found time to utter the occasional tweet!

Time, therefore, to gather my focus and make more of an effort to keep up my presence on the interwebs.

Keep watching this space.

John Kennedy Forced To Retire

Sad to see that Celtic’s defender John Kennedy has been forced to retire from the game on medical grounds. All thanks to a thoroughly nasty late tackle by Romania’s Vio Ganea back on Kennedy’s Scotland debut in 2004.

Savings

At last, some real savings! And let’s hope that this attempt to reacquaint our MPs with the real world actually wakens some of them up!

Those that are foolish enough to resist the cuts will be able to take full advantage of the new, and dare I say improved, scheme to help them “adjust to the costs of non-Parliamentary life”. A scheme that I call:

Get a job you useless gits!!!

Cows

Chortle.