Free Godless And Free by Pat Condell Page A

devalue faith as a currency, especially here in Europe, if we’re to survive. We need to put a stop to all religious appeasement.
    So let’s prove the Americans wrong and show them that we do have a spine. We can set them an example of how to get the cancer of religion out of public life for good, because they could certainly use one.
    Peace to everyone, especially to the mayor of Brussels and his Muslim constituents who keep him in office, for the time being.

22.
Unholy Scripture
    August 31, 2007
    Hi everyone. I’d like to say a couple of things here. Firstly, about my videos. I post them on various websites, and I appreciate all the comments and messages I get, but I could really do without seeing any more racist comments if you wouldn’t mind. I’m speaking here to the white racists, but this applies equally well to the brown ones. I don’t share your pathetic obnoxious views in any way imaginable, so if you really have to show the world what an intellectual insect you are please don’t do it here, because every time I see one of your comments it’s like stepping in dogshit, and I don’t want to have to follow you around with a pooper scooper, so if you could help me out and just put them somewhere else, preferably up your own fundament using the business end of a pineapple, I’d be much obliged.
    And secondly, I’d like to say a few words about the Bible.
    It seems to me that, because faith operates outside the bounds of reason, it feels entitled to claim knowledge from unreasonable sources, such as divine revelation, which is a fancy way of saying voices in the head, or dreams, or even drugs, if you read the Book of Revelation, which is an extraordinary account of a bad trip through the canyons of a frazzled mind.
    It’s the last book in the Bible, and it was written by John of Patmos. And he was definitely on something, because the island of Patmos is notoriously abundant in psilocybin mushrooms, and you don’t need to ingest too many of them to start having rabid visions, maybe even scribble a book of wild ramblings and ravings while you’re at it. What could be more natural?
    Although, reading Revelation, I don’t get the impression of anyone actually having written it so much as shouted it while hanging upside down by his ankle from a bell tower, or scrawling it in his own blood on the city walls.
    It’s fair to say I’m not entirely convinced that this is the product of a healthy mind.
    Of course I have to balance these doubts against the counter argument, which is: “But it’s in the Bible, so it must be true, because the Bible is the word of God, because it says it is, so it must be true because the Bible is the word of God…” etcetera, etcetera.
    Clearly, for some people, God doesn’t move so much in mysterious ways, as in ever decreasing circles.
    I wonder if he goes in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere. Maybe somebody can write and let me know.
    I find it quite ironic that some Christians would like to ban the Harry Potter books in case their children turn to witchcraft and away from Jesus, as opposed to turning to Christianity and even further away from Jesus, from what I’ve seen. Jesus Camp, anyone? I don’t know about you, but I smell sulphur.
    But you know, I think once you start banning books, you really start banning civilisation. And that’s why I would never be in favour of banning the holy scriptures (which is a question I was asked recently) even though I think they do more harm than good.
    I think the Bible, and the Koran for that matter, are very ambiguous books to quite a dangerous degree, because they both preach peace, as they often claim to do, yes, but they also preach violence. So really it depe what you’re actually looking for when you open the book, because that’s pretty much what you’re going to find.
    And if you choose to read it literally, well then yes, you’ve got yourself a charter for barbarism. But if you approach it as the