The Power Of Christ Compels You !

It's gibberish of the highest order. It comes from one of the largest religions in the world, the Catholic Church, and is a statement that would make any sane person laugh in derision. I'm talking about the Catholic Churches recent statement that "activities such as yoga, massage therapy, reiki or even reading horoscopes could put people at risk from evil spirits."

I'd laugh but for fear it'd all end in tears. Or demonic possession.

This statement was uttered by Father Jeremy Davies, exorcist for Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the leader of Catholics in England and Wales.

Father Davies is seventy three.

Anyway, I'm wondering how this kind of thing slips out. Has Father Davies, demon slayer extraordinaire, taken to hanging about the bell tower screaming at passersby like a modern day Quasimodo ? Or does the Catholic Church condone and, more importantly , believe this sort of thing ?

Either way it doesn't really matter. What's really the issue is that this is the same organisation that weighed in the the fertility and stem cell research bills being passed through Parliament. Politicians voted against these bills, not on scientific grounds but on the grounds on the teachings of an organisation which believes in magical evil spirits. Believe it or not these are the people that are running your country.

It just goes to show you can say and do anything as long as it's under the guise of some sort of religion.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1021712/Yoga-horoscopes-lead-possession-Devil-claims-Cardinal.html

Aliens Stole My Hat, Claims Pope !

Not really, but even if Popey was to start claiming to be the victim of an Alien abduction would it really be any more daft than the stuff the Vatican usually comes up with ? No, no it wouldn't.

The Vaticans leading astronomer, "Father" Gabriel Funes, has claimed that "Intelligent being created by God could exist in outer space". Quite a fucking stretch eh ? I love how he's skipped over the actual existence of either of these beings and simply claimed that 'goddidit', no rhyme or reason just speculation, conjecture and blind faith.

According to the BBC web site Gabriel Funes "is a respected scientist who collaborates with universities around the world.", well if that's his idea of science I'd suggest he's better off making daft statements about religion and UFO's rather than bothering the scientists who are actually doing some real science.

He doesn't stop there though. He then goes on to say that "Science and religion need each other, and many astronomers believe in God". Oh, argument from authority much ? This statement comes after the recently discovered letters of Einstien in which he wrote that the bible was "a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this."

Argument from authority yourself, you might say. And you'd almost be right. But it goes to show that one of the most famous scientists in human history clearly did not need religion, so it is hard to see how science as a whole would require it.

But, again, why are we listening to these dolts on the subject of science ?

A Touching Tale Of Islamic Love

"For Abdel-Qader Ali there is only one regret: that he did not kill his daughter at birth. 'If I had realised then what she would become, I would have killed her the instant her mother delivered her,' he said with no trace of remorse.

Two weeks after The Observer revealed the shocking story of Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, murdered because of her infatuation with a British soldier in Basra, southern Iraq, her father is defiant. Sitting in the front garden of his well-kept home in the city's Al-Fursi district, he remains a free man, despite having stamped on, suffocated and then stabbed his student daughter to death.

Abdel-Qader, 46, a government employee, was initially arrested but released after two hours. Astonishingly, he said, police congratulated him on what he had done. 'They are men and know what honour is,' he said."

Where the fuck do I begin with this one ? I wasn't even going to mention it until I had a request to do so because it's simply so fucked-up in and of itself that merely commenting on it feels a little underwhelming.

First I'll fill you in on the rest of the details. Mental religious type discovers her daughter has developed a crush on a soldier of a different faith and, along with his two sons, beats and ultimately stabs her to death, in front of her mother, who, I might add, had originally called her two sons to stop her father. Sadly for her they too were of the "mental religious" disposition, so obviously piled straight in.

I'm feeling a little lazy and also this story is a little more depressing that the usual religious stupidity I comment on so I'll post up little snippets and then comment on them.

"'Death was the least she deserved,' said Abdel-Qader. 'I don't regret it. I had the support of all my friends who are fathers, like me, and know what she did was unacceptable to any Muslim that honours his religion,' he said. "

What kind of thinking could convince you that it is acceptable to kill your daughter ? What kind of thinking could convince others that it is acceptable for you to kill your own kin ? What kind of shit-pit, backward thinking, dark-ages time-warp trapped, intellectual dessert of a country could this kind of behaviour seem acceptable to the police ?

An Islamic country that's where.

If they aren't out in the street violently protesting teddy bears or cartoons, they're stuck inside kicking each other to death or making bombs to blow up slightly different muslims.

"Abdel-Qader, a Shia, says he was released from the police station 'because everyone knows that honour killings sometimes are impossible not to commit'. Chillingly, he said: 'The officers were by my side during all the time I was there, congratulating me on what I had done.'"

Bringing peace and a 21st century modern world zeitgeist to a country so culturally and morally backward that the police think infanticide is justified must be akin to attempting to teach howler monkeys Quantum Mechanics. In other words I really don't think it can be done.

I'll also take umbrage with the police "congratulating" him on what he had done. Its not a massive achievement is it ? Three men overpowering and murdering a 17 year old girl is hardly conquering Everest is it ?

"Homosexuality is punishable by death, a sentence Abdel-Qader approves of with a passion. 'I have alerted my two sons. They will have the same end [as Rand] if they become contaminated with any gay relationship. These crimes deserve death - death in the name of God,' he said. "

I'm always a little suspicious of anyone who is really passionately against homosexuality, as they say "Methinks the gentleman protest too much !"

But "Death in the name of God" ? Really ? Imagine if you ran this guy through some psychoanalysis ! Murdering your own child for speaking to a white man ? Fine. Killing your own children for falling in love with someone of the same sex ? Absolutely. Murdering your wife for daring to suggest you shouldn't kill your child ? Please be my guest.

Just be careful where you point that cartoon.

"Rand's mother used to call her 'Rose'. 'That was my nickname for her because when she was born she was so beautiful,' she said.
'Now, my lovely Rose is in her grave. But, God will make her father pay, either in this world ... or in the world after.'"

Yeah, you're not really helping here missus. It's this ridiculous notion of this god of yours that caused the trouble in the first place.

It is truly a mystery how these insane and dangerous myths still perpetuate in these modern, enlightened times.

Still, we're on the umpteenth series of Big Brother so we're hardly in a position to lord it over them are we ?

Jihad !