Friday 6 March 2009

THE RELIGION QUESTION


Richard in his bass bag blog is always trying to raise readership of his Posts and the latest gimmick is using Jesus (of Nazareth - not the band - fame) to co-host. This is obviously an ego problem (low) and not surprising given he plays bass. How many extrovert frontmen play bass for gods sake (sorry Jesus).
I don't care for post readership numbers (unlike Robert, Richard's brother who installed a readership counter on his blog - but soon removed it when the embarrassing low numbers were exposed to all (or not many)), and as I'm a curmudgeon say 'fuck-off' if you don't like my posts and don't care if you never read them anyway.
Back to the religion question. What a lot of ridiculous twaddle. There is and has been so much trouble between competing religions and this has caused wars, marital break-ups and psychological problems just for a start. They are though tremendous money earners so its no wonder that a cynical few are milking the naive billions for trillions. I can understand the dim, the lonely, the pathetic etc subscribing to all this nonsense but cannot understand how any reasonably intelligent person can believe in transubstantiation, ascension, assumption, martyrdom granting you twenty virgins in heaven etc. This reminds me of a joke: Two guys die - one goes to heaven and one to hell. The guy in heaven is sitting around on a cloud and all the entertainment is tame harp playing. He sees his mate in hell with a beer tankard in his hand and a beautiful woman on his lap. He says to his apparently lucky mate "hey, how come you get all that you jammy bastard?" His mate says "jammy nothing. All the tankards have holes in them and the women don't!"
The only good thing that comes from religion is a sense of conscience and caring for others. A previous blogger The Morality Guy and her friend The Ethical Guy alerted us to that. I totally agree and say to all the religious nuts "show some common sense, just do whats right and stop bothering us with all this god-stuff. Ok?"

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Mmmm. I'm predisposed to religion but have seen so much trouble over it over the years as have my ancestors. Admittedly we've done alright out of it but uncle (to the power of 10)Jesus got a bit more press than he really deserved.
Maybe the followers should cool it a bit.

Carol Lingian.