Transexual Jesus!

Made you look!

Anyway here is the story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8342056.stm

Transsexual Jesus sparks protests

Jesus, Queen of Heaven portrays Christ as a transsexual

Wasn't meant to spark controversy? Yeah riiight!
But an interesting comment was made that if we had Mohammed portrayed as a transexual, then you can be sure all hell(tm) would have broken loose!

So in the interests of f airness, I wish to redress (see what I did there!) the situation and add another (badly drawn) picture.

There you go. Mohammed in a dress.

Please can crazy people limit themselves to one death threat in the comments section please.

When christians attack!!!

Is it just me or are christians getting a little more aggressive?

Not physically, but that would give a whole new meaning to 'bible thumping'! It's just that they seem quite ready to attack popular scientific ideas and ridicule scientific explanations.

I have (in my rational quest for proof) looked at many of these 'proofs' and found them to be embarrassingly poor and a waste of my time. Actually that's not true - I've had quite a few laughs!

Lets look at some of them...
4000 year old Earth
Carbon dating being wholly inaccurate (About 80% actually but still only one of many methods used)
Fossils on the tops of mountains. (Hey! I ACTUALLY saw these on Mount Snowdon!)*
Evolution errors (Ahem - misconceptions or more likely a p**s poor understanding of what evolution is.)
False fossils (So OBVIOUSLY hundreds of thousands of fossils MUST ALL BE FAKE!!!)
Half-evolved creatures (cow-frogs etc. LOL. Just. Too. Stupid.)
Dinosaurs existing with humans. (Jurassic park has A LOT to answer for!)

(These are just the scientific attempts that people have tried over the last two years... the philosophical 'proofs' have their own post.)

* I walked up Mt Snowdon (Tallest mountain in UK) with my family and we saw the fossils on the summit. 500 million years ago - that creature was alive! Now THAT is incredible. :-P 4000 years, my arse!

Scientific thinking has been at the forefront of trying to understand these things and offered plausible explanations to satisfy our curiosity. The fact that we are STILL looking at these concepts to refine our understanding and remove misconceptions is one of the greatest achievements of humankind.

So as church numbers continue to decline and organised religion is under scrutiny for the next case of fraud or sexual abuse, we seem to be getting to a hardcore of those who are ready to fight for their cause. And some willing to die for it too. Martyrs are held in high regard and, for many christians I have spoken to, seem to consider it the ultimate test of faith.

I find that worrying.

I have no problem with people questioning commonly held scientific ideas - science THRIVES on being challenged. But when people consider death as a martyr - death for a non-existent, mythological entity - death that they think will inspire others - and let's be honest, they think they will get a FAST PASS to sky pixie's magical kingdom - then I DO have a problem with it.

STOP BEING SO F**KING STUPID. Seriously.

But on a darker, humorous note... go ahead. One less idiot out of the gene pool.

Rant over. Time for the theists to have their say...

>>Edit - Snowdon is the second highest. I was tired. Sorry Scotland.

You are praying in the wrong direction!!!

This was laugh out loud funny.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7984556.stm

Brilliant. Apparently some 200 mosques in Mecca (Islam's holiest city) point the wrong way to pray.

And according to the BBC: "Some worshippers are said to be anxious about the validity of their prayers."

If you are one of those unfortunate theists, then let me assure you that you are indeed going to Hell! Ignorance is not an excuse in the eyes of your god as you quite clearly did not perform your sacred duties!

Further clarification can be seen in this helpful website below. :-)
http://www.al-islam.org/laws/invalidate.html

Shame. Looks like they have been wasting their time praying... oh the irony!

Extremism - Dutch MP banned from UK

A Dutch MP who called the Koran a "fascist book" has been sent back to the Netherlands after attempting to defy a ban on entering the UK.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7885918.stm

Interesting story. The man is trouble maker and can hardly be an advocate for tolerance but was sent back to Amsterdam because he would have caused offence to religious extremists. He previously released a short film showing islamic attrocities coupled with quotes from the islamic holy book.

If you do a search for 'Fitna' on youtube you can see for yourself. Be warned it does contain VERY graphic images, including the result of a beheading.

The problem being is that it ONLY portrays islam as a violent religion. It would be equally as easy to put clips of the gulf war, prison camps and interrogation techniques together with old testament quotes to make a christian version too.

I truly hope that as as the human race advances it will free itself from the shackles of religion and a true, world-wide humanistic approach to each other will emerge.

Sadly, my pessimistic theory is that as more reasoned people drift away from religion you will be left with larger percentages of extremism within their ranks. A minority that have such political sway, they can pursue their own destructive agendas, bringing misery and fear to millions of innocents.