Philip Norton

I was thinking the other day on what I could call a church without saying the word church. This might seem a bit odd, but I am trying to distance myself from the life of a theist and so I use terms like decemberween to describe religious things.

So what about church? Well it suddenly hit me yesterday. People who go there like the bible, so why don’t I call it The Bible Appreciation Society? I think its quite a good term, it belittles religion for being a weird collection of fools and makes it sound like the entire thing is a teeny-tiny operation run by Bob from Essex.

I know that isn’t true, but I would like it to be. Maybe one day the human race will be smart enough to do away with the fascist, dogmatic, stupid, hateful, ludicrous tissue of lies that is religion.

I don’t think it will happen overnight. Douglas Adams once said that “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” I think we have a long way to go yet…

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