So Robertson wants you believe in this “god” thing, and his reasoning is you should do so because this god fellow saw fit to kill tens of thousands of innocent men, woman and even children to punish them for something that they as individuals had no responsibility for. A real or imagined pact with the devil. Now maybe it’s me being an atheist and all but that there sure doesn’t sound like a very good selling point to me. Sounds more like extortion.
So Pat, does that mean I can kill your family members because their old man is such a useless piece of shit? Maybe we should nuke Germany because of the Holocaust thing, hell we may even get a few Nazis who were alive during WWII. Why stop there? Fire bomb the Vatican for their part in the Crusades. Why make this god fellow do all the work?
Maybe I just have a higher moral conception than Robertson’s god, I know if I could prevent the suffering in Haiti I would do it in a heartbeat. I also know if a buffoon like Pat Robertson had tried to pin 9/11 and the Haiti earthquake on me he would have burst into flames right there on TV and would have to been put out by beating with a rake and being pissed on.
Back around Easter 2007, sculptor Cosimo Cavallaro created “My Sweet Lord” a life size, anatomically correct crucified Jesus in chocolate. The Lab Gallery showing of the edible Jesus has been cancelled due to the whining of the usual suspects, the Catholic League. Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League, said the work was a direct assault on Christians. “All those involved are lucky that angry Christians don’t react the way extremist Muslims do when they’re offended.” Hey! Isn’t anger one of the deadly sins? Seems It’s okay to make any number of Messiahs from wood, stone, metal or plastic, just don’t dare make a Jesus out of anything edible. Odd complaint for a group of people who will file into church to eat the body of Christ every Sunday. Another complaint was that Jesus is shown naked, like that has not been done in countless religious paintings before.
The reason I mention this old story is with the Easter season upon us I have been seeing many Christian candy confections alongside the usual bunnies, eggs and let not forget those tasty little chicks Marshmallow Peeps.
Crosses seem to be very popular, with praying hands next, I myself found a tin of “Ichthus Mints” complete with tiny minty fish, I thought the tin box was cool and the religious symbolism a nice counterpoint to my heathen ways. You do know, Altoids are the work of the devil.
This brings up the big question. If you are given a chocolate dead Jesus on a stick this Easter, do you bite the head off first? do you go for the feet? Or is licking the only Vatican sanctioned way of consuming the Lord an savior? Do you have to go to confession first? What about Jews, is noshing on the son of god kosher? How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Jesus-Pop?
OK, So having Mos Def on the same panel with Christopher Hitchens and Salman Rushdie is like sending a one legged man to an ass kicking contest. Borat has made more sense.
I love the part where he say he doesn’t know what Bin Laden says in his videos because he doesn’t speak Arabic. OK, not like there is no shortage people who can translate it for you. And the part where he makes a big point of saying he doesn’t mind holding the unpopular idea, DUH MOS! You are sitting next to Salman Rushdie and two unabashed atheist. From what I can see Mos doesn’t mind holding a stupid idea.
Pope Benedict again proved how irrelevant the church is on any subject outside the mumbo jumbo of religion by screwing Africa and not wearing protection.
In Africa where more than 25 million people have died from Aids and another 22.5 million have the disease, the pontiff actually told the faithful “It (aids) cannot be overcome by the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, they increase the problem,”!!!!!!!
And me with out a Pro!
WHAT UTTER STUPIDITY! He ignores the simple proven fact that use of a condom decreases the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Sad part is the rather unsophisticated masses of the poorer sections of Africa will believe the man, and they are the one who suffer the most from the Aids epidemic. I guess they don’t realize the pope represents an organization that up to only recently has accepted evolution, an organization for whom it took hundreds of years to admit they were dead wrong on the heliocentric solar system. Seems to me taking sexual advice from a celibate person is like taking driving lessons from Ray Charles. Give the church another three of four hundred yeas and they may step out of the dark ages. And they wonder why they can’t but butts in the seats at church.
The reason I mention this old story is with the Easter season upon us I have been seeing many Christian candy confections alongside the usual bunnies, eggs and let not forget those tasty little chicks 
