Bishop Teaches Anus To Talk

"Speaking during his maiden speech in the House of Lords, Bishop Cottrell argued that the presence of a cleric or lay chaplain in schools would help reduce the influence of firebrand clerics by helping children become “mature citizens” in a multi-faith society."

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Why anyone listens to the complete fucking idiocy of those of the magic pretending persuasion is an unending source of amazement to me.
Only a Pretender In God(s) could conceive the notion that the answer to having too much magic pretending in schools is more mad-eyed clerics who pretend in different magics!
Bishop Cottrell's mental masturbation on behalf of his favourite magic manifesto is a very good example of why pretenders in magic should have no place in any form of governance.

The answer to the 'too much religion in schools' problem is one or more of the following...

Make it illegal for a person of faith to teach science.

Make religious education part of history lessons - teach it alongside all the other wild-eyed fantasies we used to pretend were real.

Make it illegal to indoctrinate a minor with any spiritual drivel (Make religious practice an adults-only pastime).

Restrict religious education to University courses.

To any rational thinker the utterly obvious answer to too much religion is much less religion!
Religion has had its chance to prove its worth and has failed.
Why don't we not only separate church/synagogue/mosque from state but also from humanity?
Why not choose to be adult, discard the pretending and find ways to eradicate religion before it eradicates any more of us?

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Travesty Of Reason

Picture the scene...
There's a murder in a devoutly Religious town. A man is found on his back in a pool of his own blood with an ancient, muddy, rusty blade sticking out of his heart.
The Police turn up and look around but find no evidence.
Detectives wander through, looking around and the same story; no signs of struggle, no money problems, no known enemies.
Forensics take a peek over the crime scene. They find no fingerprints or DNA to do with the murder but there is evidence of a second occupant of the flat; a woman, probably a lover. The only extra information they can deliver is a ballpark time of death of 10 hours earlier.
Specialist crime scene investigators search through the data and details; same story, even with all the high technology at their disposal.
No evidence is found of an attacker.

There is a prime suspect, the man's partner, a painter of landscapes; she was overheard threatening her lover a month before.
Witnesses say they "know she packed and left the flat within days", others say they've "not seen her for about a month or so" and a few witnesses say "she had plans to travel the country in an old camper-van".
She is finally located, living halfway up a mountain, deep in the forest.
She's arrested and the case goes to trial.

The verdict comes in and the Judge delivers the sentence saying.

"The devoutly Religious jury has decided that even though we have an absence of evidence which places you at the scene, there's is no direct evidence of your absence from it, so you must be the murderer. And I'm good with that because I'm a devout believer too and as we all know "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" and, if it's good enough for god, it's good enough for you. You are sentence to death."

So the questions here are obvious...
Should it ever happen, would we not consider this to be an appalling travesty of justice?
Would it not cause outrage in society for lack of good reasoning?
Would it not be overturned on appeal and the first judge 'retired' for lack of a brain?
Would there not be calls for the judge, prosecutors, jury and police force, if not the entire town, to be sent on an short, sharp anti-fuckwit course?

There is an absence of evidence for the mythical being 'Snow White' but, as far as I'm aware, there are no SnowWhite-ian worshippers, no Order of the Brotherhood of the Dwarves claiming that the absence of evidence of Miss White's existence is not evidence of her historical absence.
So why do Religious apologists think it's a sufficient catch-all, the be all and end all refutation of the statement 'there is no evidence of a god'?
How can they be so dishonest as to find it an unacceptable line of reasoning in our places of justice but a totally acceptable way to justify belief in their mythical being?
And the answer is? - Fear, on so many levels.

As it turns out, the butler did it but there's no evidence of that either.
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Dogma Advisory Warning

Shouldn't ALL religious works carry a United Nations Human Rights Advisory Warning?

Human Rights Advisory Warning Important: Possibly psychologically damaging content. Before you start reading this book, please be aware, if you think you might be a human who has a soul it is strongly advised that you read and fully comprehend this warning first. There has never been any proof, or even evidence, that humans have an invisible component, a 'spiritual core', which is commonly known as soul. The content of this book suggests a package of rewards and punishments which may be available to or forced upon any who think they have a soul. Caution: If you do think you have a soul and continue to read this book you will instantly be bound by its laws. There is no choice, this book and others of its kind, contains within it clauses which state, loosely... "If you read this book you will be considered to be aware of its message. Should you read then choose to deny that which this book contends or defy its laws, at the end of your life your 'soul' component will be forced", by the god it contends exists, "into a giant concentration camp and tortured forever." This book and others like it also clearly state, again loosely, that... "If you have never read this book, your 'soul'", which it contends you own, "will be judged merely on how well or badly you have behaved to your fellow humans throughout your life." So, whether or not you think you have a soul, regardless of any reward which may be offered, it's probably best to ignore such books with these types of clauses because this would put you in the more advantageous position of 1. Not having known the rules, and 2. Not offending any true god there might be, by reading and following the wrong god's rules. Continue reading at your own risk or rather, if this book is to be believed, your eternal risk. Final Advisory note: If you do not understood any part of the warning above, you should read no further. If you are an adult and are considering reading and explaining this book to a child in your care, it is further advised that if you should do so and then the child grows to resent the decision you took, he or she may have the right to prosecute you for infringing his or human right to SELF determination.

In the absence of a properly sanctioned and "printed by publisher" first page for these dangerous documents, here's a suggestion which any who wish to can apply themselves...

To shop for a sheet of these very reasonably priced labels at Zazzle click the image
actual size: 2.375 inches X 1.25 inches.

To shop for this very reasonably priced Bumper Sticker at Zazzle click the image
actual size: 11 inches X 3 inches.

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Behead The Believers

Massacre all who believe in a divine, all-powerful creator God!
Destroy the faithful, butcher them wherever you find them.

Their archaic magic fable dogmas have been burrowing through our civilization for millenniums, boring open sores into any genuine perception of the fabric of reality.
Rabbi, Priest, Imam, Preacher and all other delusion pushers are parasites whose entire livelihood depends on holding back true comprehension of reality.

Kill the holy men first.

The believer also is abhorrent in humanity's eyes; it impedes our growth and education.
Destroy the faithful; their pitiful, self-important, self-indulgent, self-delusion prohibits their proper comprehension of reality. They have proved themselves intransigent and backward; incapable of moving from the medieval violent bigotry of our primitive history. No matter their personal brand of pretending, Judaism, Christianity, Islam or what-have-you, they hold their wishes and wants higher than the safety and well being of their fellow human. Indeed their books instruct that their way is the only true way and all others are wrong. Theirs is the divisive path of supremacist hate, the way of dangerous, destructive, primitive locusts who must be immolated on the alter of rationality; eradicated for humanity's long term well being.
If they will not submit and accept reality you must slay them wherever you find them.
Atheism must have dominion in the universe for in less than a century it will be too late.When we step fully to the stars, we must do it from the stable platform of a critically thinking home world. It would be inexcusable to infect an innocent universe with such an insipid retrovirus as is carried by these god grovelling Soulcoats.
It may already be too late.

Slay them; I urge you, slay them now.

Slaughter all believers and their spouses; leave alive only the children of less than eight years for they are still young enough to be educated properly.
Over thousands of years, millions of innocents have been massacred or subjugated as a consequence of the faithful and their supremacist Holy wars, now it's time for War on the Holy. Go forth and persecute the pious, they who remain loyal to the old ways, those despicable fawning bleeders, sycophantic kneelers, the heinously delusional enemies of reason and rational dominion.
So, what are you waiting for?
Have at them, slaughter, decapitate but any way is good too, just as long as they're very dead!
All who refuse to accept reality must be held back, kept down, subjugated or destroyed.
Oh, yeah, if it helps, one of those god types, the great god of all gods I believe it was, that Nogod wench, she came to me in a dream or a vision, or maybe I saw her on telly or something, and she said...

"Kill the Believer, it's the right thing to do."
(She'd do it herself but writing bibles keeps her pretty busy,
she's not what she once was; arthritis in her index finger -
it's not been right since Belshazzar's feast.)

 

How many copies of a book with this theme would I be able to sell/give away for free without some 'authority' or other attempting to interfere or ban it?

Millions?

I would think so, their are numerous religious texts with passages which instruct followers to persecute, destroy, slay, kill or, at the very tamest, tax harshly, mistrust, ignore and shun the infidel, unbeliever, atheist, member of another religion or any other minority group the author didn't get on with.

Hey, court of human rights, why don't you 'encourage' the religious to edit the hideous and hateful passages from their Bibles, Qur'ans, et al?

Why doesn't the court of human rights have something to say about this?

Inspiration for this post taken from:
Bible: Exodus 22:18 & 22:20, Leviticus 20:27, Deuteronomy 13:6-10 & 13:12-16 & 17:2-7 & 17:12-13 & 18:20, Hosea 13:16, Mark 6:11, Luke 19:27, 2 John 1:10, Romans 16:17, Colossians 2:8, Hebrews 3:12, 1 John 2:22 & 5:19, 2 John 1:7, Jude 5, Revelations 2:9 &3:9
Qur'an: Surah (2:190)(8:12)(8:36)(8:39)(8:55)(8:59-60)(9:121)(9:123)(9:5)(9:29)(47:4)(48:29)

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Scripture Scramble Religious Gameshow

“Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the finest faith based entertainment show on TV...

Scr-r-r-iptur-r-r-re Scrambl-l-l-l-le.
Before the break, Ahmed Henry O'Toole won through to the final; gaining full marks in the three rounds, which this week were ‘Toadying to the tenet’, ‘The persecution piñata’ and, ever popular with you my lovely, lovely viewers, ‘Prostration or Castration.’
Ahmed, now has the right to make his ‘dogma decision’ and choose a new faith or switch faiths with complete impunity and, proverbially speaking, nail his descendants to a death cult or religious faith for generations to come.
Any ideas Ahmed; know what you want? What will it be?”

“I quite fancy some general light prayer, Rick, you know. Or some meditation maybe; just as and when I feel like it. Or maybe some special powers like, er, ooh, bringing things back to life maybe or healing, that would be nice but really, Rick, like everyone else who comes on here, I have to be honest, I'm looking for a way to cheat death and live forever. I’m after the star prize, Rick.”

“Our famous after-life boat, eh? The Scripture Scramble No-Strings Death Escape Pod? Well, it might be your lucky day, Ahmed because, I know for a fact, we do have something like that in our prize line up. So, Ahmed Henry O'Toole?”

“Yes, Rick.”

“Are you ready for me to reveal what we've got in store for you tonight?”

“I am Rick.”

“Not too nervous? No? Good, ok, here we go then, let's give you some details so you can determine a doctrine!”
Rik looks at the audience, his cheeky smile revealing a twinkling tooth and adds “I wonder what he'll pick?...

Good luck Ahmed…

IN Box 1...
Genital mutilation for all your male children and a lifetime supply of little boxes with chin straps included & bald spot hiding caps, or for all adult males and...” he looks off set questioningly; shake's his head in response then continues, “...and a lifetime of wig wearing, apparently, for the ladies.”

IN Box 2...
Genital mutilation for all male children, peer pressure to wear rain pants and long beards for adult males, and a lifetime of social pressure to wear black sacks with the option of genital mutilation for all females.

IN Box 3...
A lifetime of guilt & self loathing, the soul destroying & demeaning act of rocking up to a fifty year old male virgin and telling him all about your filthiest thoughts, that’s with the super deluxe family enforced guilt edition, for the whole family, for all of their lives, with the optional extra of unexpected paedophilia thrown in; that's perpetrated against you and yours, not by you and yours, if that makes a difference? I'm personally not sure which would have been better there!

IN Box 4...
A general disdain for all things sexy, a love for cardigans and coffee mornings, and banal Smalltalk followed by judgmental observations of other members of family friends and neighbours which again is the deluxe family edition.

IN Box 5...
An urge to shake, rattle & roll your biblical booty to the most pious proponents of Faith Rock and pretend to be filled with the spirit of the Lord Jesus; commonly referred to, as you are probably aware, as speaking in tongues but you might also know it as looklikeaprickitus.

IN Box 6...
Seemingly bizarre respect for cattle and a multiple lifetimes fearing of reincarnation as a dung beetle or child killing parasitic worm.

IN Box 7...
No enforced weird sexual hang ups, the same ability as anyone else to live a good or bad life and no mutilation of any kind for you or any of your family, unless you so choose.

Now, Ahmed, before you make your final decision there's a final twist...”
Audience lets out an “Oo-o-oh.”
“With all but one of the boxes you'll also be expected to pay a weekly membership fee.”
Audience lets out an “B-oo-o-oh.”
“However, in one of the boxes, and only one, as you hoped, there is an eternity of special prizes for you...”
Audience cheers.

“but for you ALONE, Ahmed.
None of your family will benefit.
Their fate is in their hands.”

“Oh, it's so hard Rick!”

“Must hurry you.”

“I am intrigued by box 4, I do like coffee mornings and my granny is always saying how lovely I'd look in a cardigan but the banal smalltalk’s a serious downer.”

The studio audience start shouting out box numbers.

“Come on Ahmed, come on, the clock's ticking!”

“And only one has the big super-duper prize!”

“Ok, time's up, I must have an answer...”

Instant hush in the studio.

“Err, er, no; it IS tempting Rick but I’m going play safe and go with box 7. At least that way all my family will be as whichever god made them.”

“Really, I can't tempt you with eternity?”

“At such a cost Rick, I don't think so.”

“Fair enough, Ahmed, if that’s your choice; then it’s no winners or losers this week, ladies and gents.
This week we saw Ahmed win through to leave here the same way as he arrived. And a very happy man he seems. Tune in midweek for our monthly special “Circumciser, circumcision” when we'll settle another brother and sister dispute settled, where you get to judge, and the winner gets to chop the sexy bits off one unlucky boy or girl, all in the name of their Holy maker-r-r-r-r...
And don't forget to join us next week for another ...

Scrrripturrrre Scrambllllle!”

Until then people,
Rick loves Ya and Rick leaves Ya
with just a few words...
Box 7...
You know it makes Zense, right?

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