Long, long, ago, some guys got together, gathered up all the myths of their particular little desert tribe, wrote them down into a little book, and said "this is a MAGIC book! It's full of the stories of our people, and where they come from, and also some nice little rules for you to follow. Oh, and don't make fun of the magic book, and especially don't say it's not magic. This we'll call 'blasphemy', and if you commit it, we'll fucking kill you. BTW, that one's in the magic book".
And so things went on this way for a couple millennia.
And then we get up to now, and we've got airplanes, and Playstation 3, and microwave ovens, and cell phones that are practically the tricorder from Star Trek.
Well, fuck, they're better than the tricorder, really.
Okay, so we've got tricorders.
But, we call them phones, because the marketing people aren't geeks.
But, we've got tricorders, people.
Fucking tricorders.
Anyway, in this age of progress and enlightenment, we've just about gotten to the point where if you say the magic book isn't magic, you'll just get "hey, you've offended my beliefs! I'm going to cry and pee!".
Which is a nice step up from being fucking killed.
But, if you want to lead the most powerful country in the nation, you still have to play along and say the book is magic.
And in certain parts of the world, they'll still fucking kill you for laughing at their magic book.
Of course, theirs is a different magic book, but the rules still apply.
So, there's still some work to be done.
But, when you tell people all this, they tend to get offended.
I keep hearing pissing people off isn't productive, but there's nothing you can say against religion that doesn't piss people off.
And there's nothing you can say rationally about religion that won't come out anti-religious.
Religion has perniciously constructed itself to be immune from criticism of any kind.
Either you get the killing, or the weeping.
So, what do we do?
We cant put this shit off, WW3 looms, so it's a dialogue that needs to be had.
But no one wants to have it.
How the hell do we even have this discussion, folks?
Help me out here, I'm at a loss.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Okay, let's have us a rant.
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We could start by getting them to drink a proper cup of Tea!
I too simply cannot cope with this shit about magic - might just as well praise Harry Potter for all the good it will do you.
What hacks me off even more is that you mention that the magic and the magic book are cobbled together works of plagiarism and they accuse YOU of being rude, arrogant and disrespectful!
No apologies for fucking about night and day praying, no apologies for the fact that if it wasn't for religion we would have the flying cars or even the odd X-Wing to get to work in, but nooooooo, I must respect the invisible assumptions! I have to let them fuck the world up in war and stupidity plus respect them for it too!
Bastards the lot of them! :)
I want my X-Wing, damn them and their trousers for their stupidity!
Yet they seem to think it is OK to offend everyone else by saying their way of life will result in you going to hell. Therefore, thet say "accept my religion - not the one of those bastard splitters we split fom last week. They eat tofu and are therefore heretics and are off to hell too - cunts!"
You can say whatever you want about religion and I won't care. It's when you start talking about faith that I get antsy. All religion begins as faith. Once faith has died and been fossilized, then it becomes religion.
It was a good rant... well done.
Lanzman-
"All religion begins as faith. Once faith has died and been fossilized, then it becomes religion".
Hmm, I've thought about this, and I think it's MYTH that becomes fossilized into religion.
In fact, I think I'll do a blog post on it....
http://dickynoo.blogspot.com/2009/04/where-myth-goes-to-die.html
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