Angry Atheism

Why do atheists get so angry?

This.

I don't give a toss if you have good intentions when you calmly talk about "love the sinner, hate the sin" and all that bullshit, if you think you're saving souls for an afterlife that doesn't fucking exist.

Because that, up there, is the result. People being beaten is the result. People being treated as subhuman is the result. People being burned, beaten to death, bullied into suicide, hanged, is the result. That is the result of you "exercising your religious freedom," fuckers. Are you proud?

Fuck the bloody lot of you, you pompous, self-important, smugly pious pieces of shit. You are scum.
—Daz

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FNIMN: Time Enough For Countin’

And so, with the inevitability of your "sure thing" losing to a three-legged arthritic donkey, Friday rolls around again. And it probably rolls snake-eyes. Which, if you hadn't guessed, is my way of introducing this week's Friday Night Is Music Night theme. Gambling.

As ever, feel free to add your own suggestions in comments. That said, anyone succumbing to an urge to add Wink Martindale's Deck Of Cards… will be looked upon with sad and hurt expression.
—Daz

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The Decline Of The Godly Smite

Back when the world had just begun
God's wrath fired down like a Gatling gun.
He'd smite this here, and there he smote that,
Laid down plagues at the drop of a hat,
Turned people to salt and preserved 'em in fishes,
Drowned 'em in millions for spurning his wishes.
But, did he get tired of it all, would you say?
For he no longer smites as in biblical days.
For all of the power he supposedly boasts,
A miracle these days, is faces on toast.

—Daz

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Omnipotence?

In Judges, One, we're told at length
The Lord came down and lent his strength
To Judah's tribe as they did fight
In north and south, to left and right.
They took those lands and made them theirs,
As promised to all of Moses' heirs.

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I've finally caught up with the second of those two posts I missed, by the Boy Hutton. If you're interested, here's the link.
—Daz

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Cynical, Moi?

Pound on the pulpit, "God's loving and great;
His message of love in the Gospel's innate!"
But Pastor Bowles
Isn't there for your souls;
For what he worships is cash in his plate.

—Daz

Thanks Stephen.

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Middle-England Blues

Picture of a happy couple,
Happy kids round and about.
Bleached-white teeth in smugly happy faces,
Neatly parted hair and never any frown of doubt.

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Born again‽ No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
—Dennis Miller

I'm a bit late getting to Bob's latest couple of dribblings, not having noticed he'd posted them. (My own fault. I've been having fun with Thunderbird of late, and in a tidying-up exercise, I deleted the RSS feeds of a few blogs which seem to have deceased; in the course of which I deleted Bob's by mistake.) This is in response to the first of the two, The New Birth.

I'll dispense with his preamble, and get straight into his major points…

Thus begins my critique of Hutton's last-but-one post. Read the rest at The Hutton Delusion.
—Daz

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Bright Ideas

I've been slowly working my way through season two of James Burke's Connections TV series. Though I must have watched them when they were first broadcast, I remember very little of the second and third series, and I must admit I'm a tad underwhelmed by the second. It was cut down to a length of a little over twenty minutes per episode—presumably half an hour including ads, on a commercial station—and seems rather gimmicky by consequence. Whereas the first season made a serious point about trying not to view historical developments in too linear a fashion, the minute or two allowed in this much shorter format to explain each concept in the chain, makes it seem more like a kind of history-inspired, slightly over-contrived game of "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" than a documentary.

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In Which I Get All Lusty Over Harmonicae

And yet another music post. Sorry 'bout that, but this kinda blew me away.

I ran across this beautiful gob-iron rendition of Swing Low Sweet Chariot (That thud you just heard was half my more religious readers' jaws hitting their chests.) on You Tube, and wondered how he got that sound. Some of the bends seem, well, impossible on a normal blues-harp set-up. Have a listen; it really is lovely.

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