Archive for the Religion Category

I defend your right to free speach as long as you accept my right to call you a horses ass.

This week in Luton a small group of angry Muslims took it upon themselves to jeer and protest at a “welcome home” march by the Anglian regiment. This has caused a lot of upset and hurt especially among the vast crowd that had gathered to cheer the troops. I appreciate that their actions, which were quite deliberately inflammatory, have left many people saying that they should have been stopped, silenced, arrested or even lynched. However, and here is the rub, we live in a free society where our rights to express our feelings are protected even if those views may be offensive to some or indeed many. It is important that we maintain this fundamental right, Nu Labour have already gone way to far to curb our freedom, we don’t need to give them any more rope to hang us. Under this government we now need permission from the police to hold peaceful demonstrations within a fixed radius of parliament, it would not take much for G Brown to extend that restriction to the whole country, and there lies disaster.

We, as reasonable peaceful Britons have to defend the right of these people to demonstrate, in fact if they had been demonstrating about the Iraq war outside parliament or number 10 I would have most likely joined them, but equally they have to accept that we all think they are a bunch of putrid horses asses, and it is my right as a free (but angry) man to say so.  

My right to NON religious freedom

I was enjoying a nice Saturday morning last weekend and my enjoyment of The Saturday Kitchen was rudely disturbed by Jehovah’s Witneses. Let me tell you I was quite proud that I managed set a new speed record in door slamming, I estimate that the time it took me to open the door, see the two gullible JWs standing there and then slam the door in their face to be under two seconds, Guinness are you reading this?

But I have to say I was left feeling very very irritated, I know it is no great loss to miss James Martin preaching the delights of making a top quality spotted dick but I still felt violated. It is probably fair to inform you that I am a devout and often evangelical atheists and most people of religion annoy me, but in most cases I am able to avoid the indoctrinated classes but simply not going to any religious gatherings. I may occasionally go to the odd wedding or christening but on the whole I do what I can to avoid them. So why is it I have to put up with these nutters (IMHO) knocking on my door and trying to peddle their twisted ideas, I do not go round there house and evangelise about my private little imaginary friends or fantasies, to be honest if I did I believe I would be arrested, so why are they free to bother me?

 I need to to find a nice little brass plaque that I can stick by my letter box that reads;

“No Circulars”
“No Solicitors”
“No Sad, Indoctrinated, Myth Worshiping, Smug, Self Rightious, Simpletons”

Trouble is I don’t think my door is wide enough.

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