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28Oct/060

Veils, Crosses and God

I getting very tired of the bullshit being spouted by all the various god-botherers.

Should Muslim women have to wear the veil, should Christians be allowed to wear the cross at work, faith schools… and on and on…

Personally I think religion should have no place in any public policy so right away I’d remove all funding from divisive so-called faith schools.

ALL children in our society should have the same education and religious education should be an extra curricular activity paid for by the adherents. I don’t see why my taxes should be spent on education for people who choose to have an organised religion.

As for the clothing thing — well I don’t believe in “uniforms” and forcing people to wear what they don’t want to. For years I fought with my kids’ school over uniform. They never wore it and were constantly in trouble as a result, even though they were both “A” students and never behaved in an anti-social manner. No-one has ever been able to explain the benefits of school uniform, other than spout shite about it reducing bullying — how exactly does that work then?

I support a completely secular society and if you want to “worship” something then feel free but don’t expect me to have to pay for it.

I don’t really care what people choose to wear, it’s a personal choice, but I certainly don’t support people being forced to wear clothes they don’t want to. So if a woman chooses to wear a veil and is in no way forced to then that’s fine by me.

I don’t subscribe to the view that we need to see peoples’ faces for security reasons. I don’t feel very comfortable in a society that feels the need to video my every move.

Likewise, if a Christian wants to wear a cross it’s no problem to me — why should it be?

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5Jul/060

I’m on my way to Hell, apparently…

The God-botherers at No Religion, Just Jesus think my blog is “Repulsive”. It’s obvious that they haven’t actually read any of it but simply saw a “bad” word and reacted as expected. It’s that old “Bad” word gland again!

I’ll tell you what’s repulsive:

The “Christian” Right in the US supporting the killing and carnage being perpetrated all over the world in their name. With people like this around it’s not surprising that some Muslims believe there is another Crusade underway.
This woman’s view of Islam — “I believe all the peace talks in the world will not stop this battle. It will be finished when Jesus returns riding on a white horse!” (Don’t remember any references to Jesus galloping back to save us on a horse in my religious education, and why does it have to be a “white” horse?!)
This woman’s view of homosexuality — apparently they’re all bound for Hell too. I’m no fan of the noisy “gay” lobby but I don’t advocate that they should be executed for their condition — I just wish they’d shut the fuck up.
The sick sidebar content on her site — “150,000 People Will Die Today. The counter to the side is ticking off the number of people who have died since you opened this web page. The vast majority of those people are entering Hell.” The arrogance is astounding — she’ll be going to Heaven, of course.

The assumption of moral superiority that seems to infect this bunch of hypocrites. That was blown away in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina which highlighted the uncaring attitude of the Great & the Good toward the Poor and Black people devastated by this tragedy — no doubt they believe this to be a punishment from God.

So, I’ll take my chances when Judgement Day comes. I live a decent life, I don’t take advantage of others. I might swear but I don’t lie, cheat and murder.

In fact, if this lot are typical of the likely population of the Kingdom of Heaven I think I’d rather go elsewhere!