Journal tomhudson's Journal: Ghandi in reverse 5
First we took religion seriously.
Then we fought against it.
Now we openly laugh at it.
We have won.
Netcraft confirms it. With ping times now stretching into millenia, and no dns record update in over 2000 years, we can safely say that the server hosting "god" is truly dead.
This is not really surprising. There has been a marked increase over the years in bounces from email to jesus@god, mary_mother_of_god@god, etc. peter@god has been hijacked - for a while, it was the source of much spam for V14GR4, so both peter@god and peters_miracle_cure_for_your_peter@god are blackholed.
True to form, Christian Scientists issued a statement saying "God is not dead. He only *thinks* he's dead."*
Charles Dobson, from Focus on the Family, yesterday tried to place the blame on Barack Obama and other Democrats, saying that God got tired of killing a kitten for every abortion, and committed suicide. Obama responded by pointing to his lapel pin.
They were unable to jump-start John McCain in time for this report.
Rush Limbaugh, on the other hand, blamed it on gay marriage. And illegal aliens. And Canada. "It's all them muslims up in Ca-na-duh. They come down here, and fill our illegal workers with nonsense about getting paid the minimum wage and stuff. They're ILLEGAL! They don't have a RIGHT to a minimum wage. No way I'm paying my housekeeper a living wage - I don't want to encourage illegals."
Fred Phelps said he was pleased with God's demise. "God was too tolerant. You'd never catch him in MY church. Look at the way his kid turned out - long-haired hippy freak, lazy no-good who leached off others, died at 30
George Bush, on vacation, was heard to ask an aide "This isn't going to be a repeat of the Terry Schiavo shit, is it? Make sure God is really dead. I seem to remember us saying the guy was one of our supporters. Make sure Dick didn't take him on another one of his boozed-up hunting trips. But if he *did* shoot God, remember, it was God's fault. That's our story.
RMS said he wasn't surprised. "God was from the days of closed-source development. We're coming up with a new, improved version- GNU/dog. Even the name is dyslexic-friendly."
Meanwhile, the pope denied rumours that God was poisoned, while at the same time ruling out an autopsy. "We didn't do one for Pope John Paul 1, we won't do one for this guy either. From what I hear, he was a lousy Catholic anyways. Nobody's seen him in church for who knows how long. He didn't tithe. He fathered a bastard out of wedlock with someone else's wife. If he were a priest, we'd send him to the gas chambers - I mean we'd excommunicate him.
This story is already responsible for at least one death. A reporter died of injuries sustained after suggesting they interview Tom Cruise. All the other 128 members of the press corps present claimed they were "looking elsewhere" when the beating death occurred. A coroner has since ruled the death a "suicide from natural causes".
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* For those who don't get the Christian Scientist comment
Kid: "Mommy mommy, Johnny next door is sick."
Mother: "No, Billy. Johnny isn't sick. He only *thinks* he's sick."
Next day:
Kid: "Mommy mommy, Johnny is really really sick bad."
Mother: "No, Billy. Johnny isn't only *thinks* he's really really sick."
Next day:
Kid: "Mommy mommy, Johnny thinks he's dead!"
Appreciated the post (Score:3, Insightful)
Rush is playing locally in about three weeks; one hopes they trot out "Circumstances", as your post/Romans 1 recall that track.
Re: (Score:1, Flamebait)
Religion is such rich material to mine, if only because, like sex. it bypasses the logical part of the brain.
Hmmm ... I think I'm on to something here ...
Re: (Score:2)
Hmmm ... I think I'm on to something here
Well I don't know about you but I'll take sex over religion every time.
Now there are some interesting ways sex and religion have been combined, but those are all outside the Abrahamic traditions.
No, We Have Lost (Score:2)
First we took religion seriously.
Then we fought against it.
Now we openly laugh at it.
We have won.
No, We have lost. We have lost because we have undermined, at a fundemental level, both our culture and our abstract search for truth. It is difficult to see it now because of the success of the sciences which do very well without recourse to the supernatural, but early scientists believed that there was order in the universe to discover because of belief in the rationality of God's creation.
Now, theists don't really believe in God, but rather in "belief", which motivates them to fight hostile ideas that