Religion and the born again atheist

I don't believe desert religions should be able to mess up everybody else's lives, either by spreading their dogma through the legislative process or by violent means through 'terrorism' and fenced-in occupations.
I find monotheistic systems with their rigid Book-based revealed 'truths' completely unattractive and irrelevant to my life.
If I wasn't an atheist, I'd rather go for the classical Greek soap opera-style pantheon of human-like gods and godesses. So much more fun - and they were not afraid to root anything that took their fancy.

I am the Greatest

Good to see an international audience that watches BBC World TV has voted Sir Isaac Newton as the 'Greatest Briton' that ever lived. He theorised about the nature of gravity, something every self-respecting drag queen has attempted to disprove!
Biographers have suggested he was a gay man but repressed his sexuality.
I voted for Charles Darwin in the BBC poll, just to give those Christians a rooting they so richly deserve.
A Greatest Fag in History poll would be fun. So many contenders for a shortlist, and so many we may not want to include (J Edgar Hoover anyone, or Lindsay Perigo?)
My nominations: Derek Jarman, Quentin Crisp, Jean Genet, Oscar Wilde, Alan Turing, Leonardo Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Montgomery Clift, and any classical Greek god and hero (cos they screwed everything that dared to move).

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Catholic MPs ordered to vote down gay marriage law

The Catholic MPs in our (and other countries') parliaments again face an interesting dilemma. The leader they have pledged allegiance to - remember, Catholicism involves subjugation to the infallibility and the precedence of Vatican diktats over mere domestic profane law - has ordered them to prevent or change laws that allow gay marriage and/or civil unions. Apart from the tragic irony that the biggest homosexual closet in world history is such a staunch defender of the particular lifestyle option of hetero marriage, I am far more disturbed by the fact that many of our elected politicians swear an oath to serve New Zealand, but then follow orders from a foreign power in their legislative voting pattern. Was Harry Duynhoven dumped on for renewing his dual nationality (NZ-Dutch) because - it was presumed? - he would try to introduce liberal Dutch legislation on euthanasia, dope and gay marriage into NZ? So to cut the hypocrisy after last week's defeat of the Death With Dignity Bill, I call on all Catholic MPs, including Bill English, the Member of Papal States (South Pacific), to choose which power they serve: the NZ electorate or that foreign prince who only uses his organ to piss.

Cold is God's way of telling us to burn more Catholics.

(Blackadder II "Beer")