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Putting the fun into fundamentalism

This year, the Edinburgh festival has 50 shows concerning religion. Most of them ridiculing the concept. There's an article giving an overview of these events in the Times online.

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2 Quotes

"Sometimes the language of faith is better left unsaid." - Reverend Julie Nicholson - who's daughter Jenny was killed in the London bombings of 7th July 2005. (As of this date, even as a christian, Reverend Nicholson has not forgiven the bombers.)

"Our religion is Islam, obedience to the one true god, Allah." - Mohammed Siddiqui Khan - one of the four bombers, speaking on the pre-bombing video, broadcast on the Al Jazeera news channel one day prior to the 1st anniversary of the 2005 london bombings.

The Sexual Assault of Bakery

This post is in response to The English Atheist's previous post, which appears beneath this one. You may wish to read his post first.

Second degree sexual assault - Whoever does any of the following is guilty of a Class C felony: 940.225(2)(d) Has sexual contact or sexual intercourse with a pie who the defendant knows is unconscious.

Darwin is foaming at the mouth right now. He wants Mr. Penis Pie in the worst way and the writer would be hard-pressed to deny handing the little pig right over to The Man. As a gold-plated patron of the entire food group, that being everything under the sun which is edible, third world desperation dishes such as grubs being the exception, the writer believes such a gross assault upon a fine, upstanding pastry should be deemed one of the worst felonies imaginable.

Unfortunately, the human species has this strange habit of going out of its way to save people like this only so they may wreak future havoc under even worse circumstances. What is more incredible though is that the producers of the film "American Pie" have been chastised by some flubdub hospital spokesman for a behavior presented in a piece of fiction. Remember that little caveat - F I C T I O N ?

Fiction means it is fake, phony, humbug. Can there be any better example of the stupidity of Americans, and particularly of American male youth, than for some retard who should have been slapped silly at birth to stick his wick in an unassuming, innocent piece of bakery simply because he saw it in a movie?

One supposes the family will now sue the manufacturer of the crust because it was unable to resist the persistent attentions of the rapist, or perhaps the filling manufacturer because it did not cool quickly enough to body temperature. The pie tin people are in danger too. The whole thing might have folded up upon itself to prevent the assault entirely had the manufacturer had the ability to divine the future and designed the plate more like a Venus flytrap.

Whatever happens, the writer certainly hopes that this incident has taught American youth a lesson about messing with bakery - a hunka hunka burnin' love ain't all it's cracked up to be and the pie really, really resents it.

And now...

...from our Only In America department.

Blimey!

Today I have been listening to music on my shiny, new, 30gb iPod. The sound quality is really good; surprisingly good given the size of the thing and its accompanying little earpieces. I have yet to experiment with the equaliser on the unit, which will hopefully further improve my appreciation of the audio output. I found that all my music whizzed over from my PC to the iPod in record time, though the iTunes software didn't appreciate some of the video stuff on my hard drive and refused to shovel it across. Never mind, as I now have almost two-and-a-half days worth of my favourite sounds stored within its integrated innards.

In less than two months I will be setting off for my Anglo-American Milwaukee Beer Tour with Invisi B, so the iPod will come in really handy on my next flight to America. The only problem will be choosing which music to listen to.

Oh, and a Mack truck full of thanks to Invisi B for 'Amazoning' the iPod to me! An iPod on my doormat first thing in the morning was the last thing I expected when I hopped out of bed today. But... what a wonderful surprise! In fact, I never expected it at all.

Most days are good days for me, but today was especially good.

Welcome!

And a big welcome to Invisi B: the new contributor to the English Atheist blog.

Invisi B lives in America and has been a good friend of mine for several years. We have even been on a Caribbean cruise together, and will soon be embarking on a colossal beer tour of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Invisi B will be handling the Trans-Atlantic department of this blog, her own blog can be found here. She loves cats, things English, and like me is an atheist.

Well I never...

With regard to famous (British) humourous folks who no longer believe their childhood religious brain-washing, I see that Jeremy Clarkson is an atheist too! Many dislike him, his wit, and his somewhat condescending attitude, but his humour appeals to me because he is over-the-top, sarcastic and more importantly, honest. Come on, you have got to admire someone who has one of these parked in his front garden!

They are not afraid

What do the following folks have in common?

Terry Wogan, Ronnie Barker, Lee and Herring, Ricky Gervaise, Jimmy Carr, Billy Connolly, Alan Cumming, Douglas Adams, Linda Smith, Griff Rhys-Jones, Alexi Sayle, Warren Mitchell, Jim Sweeney, Nick Frost, Dave Allen, Charlie Chaplin, Stephen Fry, Neil Morrissey, Clement Freud, Bob Monkhouse, and Noel Coward.

Well, they were, or are, all atheists! (However, these are only the ones I was able to find using Google, and by watching TV.) What a tradition of non-religious comedic talent the UK has produced over the last century! And the beauty of our current squadron of chuckle mongers is that they are not afraid to poke fun at religion and religious belief. But unlike their US counterparts they have no qualms in expressing their atheism.

(I'm just getting into this blog thing, so bear with me while I sort it out.)