Now They Can Stop Moaning

Religion in schools to go God-free

Well, this will give some other poor 'wretched'* sod a class full of kids to explain something to.

Religious instruction in schools is a no-brainer - why not? I don't see a problem with it and I don't see why others should either. There has never been a block to the Humanist agenda and I can confidently predict few parents and children will see the need for it. There will be an initial glut and then it will fade away when all the class does is have a quiet chat about the golden rule every week.

Again, I don't have a problem with it. First, it shuts up the enthusiast atheist mob who've read The God Delusion and bought into its viciousness and uncouth approach to atheism. Kids don't have to do RE anyway unless they sign up for it at a Christian school. (having said that, you can get out of it at Carey! Disgraceful.) Second, it will give the fundies who give any religion a bad name the chance to pipe up and create a few column inches.

Why is this good? All these sorts of triumphant stories do is provoke people to think about the issues. The twitter-sphere was full of triumphant tripe like this:

Spread the good news

as though this is the coming of reason. What these people don't realise is that it won't make a lick of difference.

Enthusiast atheists, like the goose above, like to think that once someone is told there is no God, they just automatically believe it. If they don't they're stupid. Kinda easy logic isn't it? There's no wriggle room there. Like, oh, there could be a God and he might be the one that Christians, Muslims or Jews worship. They also don't know the difference between the Gods of those religions (oh, no, that would be ignorant of them to learn) and prefer to either think that if there is a God, they'll 'slip in the side door' or if God is one of the above, they prefer Hell. It's all a metaphor anyway.

Which sort of brings me to something interesting Jeremy Clarkson wrote.

The BBC's letting loonies gag me with mink knickers.

Basically, what Clarkson is saying, is that you're not allowed to say anything anymore because there's always someone calling for your immediate execution:

'You could give me any subject matter: paving stones, cabbages, your next-door neighbour, dogs – anything that took your fancy – and I bet that after half an hour on the phone I could come up with someone who was prepared to be cross about it. If it got their name in the papers.'

'The problem is simple. If you say, in public, that you would not shoot a bear or you would not support an attack on Iraq or you would not buy a Range Rover because of climate change, you are offending nobody. Because you are saying, “I will not do something.” But if you say you would do something, like shoot a bear, then someone in an attic with a website and a silly acronym for their micro-organisation (membership: three) will jump on your case and not let go'

The world is full of these morons and unfortunately enthusiast atheism is on that bandwagon: "I do not believe therefore I cannot offend."

It's oafish, simplistic and mind-numbingly dull. Yes, I'm a Christian but believe everybody is entitled to their belief or disbelief. The New Atheists (who are just old atheists with bad tempers) seem to think they are saving the world when in fact they are reducing discourse to childish rabble-rousing and insults, using emotive terms like 'child abuse' to attract dullards and halfwits to their cause. And they cause themselves 'the smarts.'


* The goose who runs the Australian Council for the Defence of Goverment Schools' called RE teachers 'wretched.' Halfwit. Learn more about this cretinous little group here: ADOGS. Great website.