Christinsanity

"Do you believe in God?"

You would not believe (or perhaps, if you're religious, you would), how often I get asked that question. A day does not go by at University when some lanky communist, wearing what can only be described as a sack made into the vague shape of a t-shirt, spots me in the crowd and makes it his mission to drag me over and complain to me about how I am an ungodly specimen of humanity and that the only way to redeem myself is to drop to my knees at once and say the Hail Mary twenty billion times.

Now I would rather do the Heil Hitler twenty billion times than listen to yet more Christian propaganda. Do they not think that I already know what God has to offer? That I don't already know about how good He is? I mean, seriously, I can pretty much guarantee that 90% of the people who can read and write in the West know about Christianity. They know what it represents. They know all about how He is the 'one true way' to salvation, and that His kingdom will allow us to live forever and ever, amen.

And yet, a majority of those people are still not Christian.

So obviously they don't need telling about Christianity as they already know it exists and are aware of what it can do for you. We can thus assume that they don't want to be Christian, otherwise they would be. It is a tautology at its best: I am not a Christian because I am not a Christian.

So why do these religious types insist on manhandling people such as myself over to their wooden stools ablaze with Christian paraphernalia? I have my headphones in and I am walking faster than most small cars can go at top speed, as usual. Clearly I do not wish to engage in communication, much less listen to a diktat. It is arrogance of the highest order for them to think that its acceptable to interrupt me and drag me away from my activities; that their time is worth more than my own. I can assure you, it isn't.

The cure for this is simple. In the short-term, while you are standing there listening to their nasal whining, hold up your hand to stop them and then proceed to pick apart each and every one of the flaws in their religion; their hypocrisy at preaching a world of peace and tolerance, when they refuse to allow a homosexual, or heaven forbid, a woman, to become anything more than a tea lady in the ranks of the Church; how the Church is one of the richest institutions in the World, and yet they ask you make a donation; how instead of sending something useful to impoverished African nations, like water or food or batteries, they send a missionary to teach them that at least when they die of malnutrition, they will go to Hell for all the people they've had to murder to keep their family safe from tyrants; about how the Pope openly spoke out against the supposed evils of the condom, when it is one of the best ways of stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa (the best way being, surely, to not have sex) and for couples to avoid having children that they do not want and cannot support while still being able to share that intimate bond; how they can say that prayer is a much better solution to a problem than the solution itself; how they have done more to impede scientific progress than any other organisation on Earth; how they think they can indoctrinate and spread propaganda to such a degree that would make the Nazis jealous, and with arrogance that surpasses even the French.

Do I need to go on, or has the Jesus-lover started stuttering and crying as you tear down his beloved Church? At this point he will actively will you to go away and so you turn around and leave him in a quivering wreck. Job done.

I must make it absolutely plain that I have no qualms with religion at all. It is an essential part of humanity. What I do take issue with is the Christian Church, and all of its 'spread-the-word' minions. That is not right, and that is what should be erased.

But enough for today, I'll take the time to clarify my stance on religion and life in general in the next few days, and report on the first Science vs Religion debate I attend.

To be continued...