The murderer has been found guilty of killing fifteen human beings.
He stands in the dock flanked by several large security guards in front of the judge ready to here his sentence.
The victims families stand in the public seating waiting to hear the sentence.
"Prisoner at the bar," The judge begins, "you have been found guilt of fifteen murders. Heinous, cruel, sadistic crimes, tailored to make your victim suffer as much agony as possible for your own pleasure before eventually, sometimes after many hours, sated at last you finished them off. You killed both men and women. Three of your victims were under ten when you kidnapped them. You will be punished according to the full force of the law. Do you have anything to say before I pass sentence?"
"Only one thing, sir. I believe you killed your son for me."
"You do?"
"Yes, sir. I believe you killed your son, who had never broken the law, to take the punishment of people like me."
"In that case, you are free to go."
Horror. Consternation. Cries of 'no!' and 'why?' from the public section of the court. 'He killed my baby!' 'He can't go free!' 'He'll do it again!'
The judge turns to the horror stricken family members as the smiling murderer shrugs off the security guards and steps out of the dock and out into freedom.
"This is the law. If a person, no matter what they have done, believes I killed my innocent son they are allowed to go free."
The forewoman on the jury cries out;
"This isn't justice!"
Everyone in the land cries out, 'this is not justice!'
Christian, do you agree that this is justice?
If not, then why do you accept it from your god?
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Saturday, 14 January 2012
TRADITIONAL TRADITIONS
Did you know that traditional families are the best for bringing up socially, morally healthy children?
You know, where Dad goes out to work and Mum sees the kids off to school and then takes the younger ones out shopping with her and comes back in the afternoon to meet the kids coming home and then makes the tea for Dad and when he comes home they all sit around the table and eat and at night watch telly or play board games together till bed time? Just like Fred and Rosemary West.
You know, where Dad goes out to work and Mum sees the kids off to school and then takes the younger ones out shopping with her and comes back in the afternoon to meet the kids coming home and then makes the tea for Dad and when he comes home they all sit around the table and eat and at night watch telly or play board games together till bed time? Just like Fred and Rosemary West.
Saturday, 3 December 2011
TO CHOOSE
Following up on my previous posting, some people believe that homosexuality is unnatural and therefore is a choice.
Putting aside the notion that someone would choose to be of a group that was persecuted because of it's main reason.
Putting aside the notion that even if it is a choice it still should be protected under the laws of fairness.
Suppose is it. I don't know. I am of the theory that everything is genetic, we are mostly products of nature, but nurture, our upbringing, can either encourage or temper this,* or we can learn the ability to mimic and fake a certain behaviour to fit in.
But suppose being a LGBT person is a straight choice, writing the pros and cons or just to rebel or annoy your parents or whoever? Do you know what else is a straight choice? So much so that it's proponents loudly and proudly declare it, that no one can be born this way, they have to actively make the decision to become one?
Christianity.
That's all. . .
*The best (only) example I can think of is someone genetically predispositioned to lung cancer growing up in houseful of smokers and being encouraged to take it up themselves.
Putting aside the notion that someone would choose to be of a group that was persecuted because of it's main reason.
Putting aside the notion that even if it is a choice it still should be protected under the laws of fairness.
Suppose is it. I don't know. I am of the theory that everything is genetic, we are mostly products of nature, but nurture, our upbringing, can either encourage or temper this,* or we can learn the ability to mimic and fake a certain behaviour to fit in.
But suppose being a LGBT person is a straight choice, writing the pros and cons or just to rebel or annoy your parents or whoever? Do you know what else is a straight choice? So much so that it's proponents loudly and proudly declare it, that no one can be born this way, they have to actively make the decision to become one?
Christianity.
That's all. . .
*The best (only) example I can think of is someone genetically predispositioned to lung cancer growing up in houseful of smokers and being encouraged to take it up themselves.
A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
A law has been passed which allows churches to marry homosexual couples, ie officiate at gay weddings if they so choose.
Hot on it's heels comes a statement from the General Synod of the Church of England which declares that no Church of England church will automatically marry gay couples.
And, you know, through the hysteria on both sides, the General Synod have a point.
Just imagine if a vegetarian went to work at McDonald's and tried to force the restaurant to not handle bits of murdered animal? Not just that restaurant but all of them? It wouldn't be right, would it?*
It's not like a chemist refusing to serve a woman with the morning after pill. It's us going onto their territory and telling them they must do things that in all conscience, not to cause trouble and annoy people (the CofE is very liberal in many ways)they believe are wrong.
Peter Tatchell is a good man and a courageous man and unlike a lot of armchair protesters puts his money where his mouth is, so to speak (suffered mild brain damage from beatings he received by the local police in countries where he stood up for gay rights). But to say churches have to follow their conscience and then saying they are being stopped from doing so only if they don't do what we want is not right.
Some people believe a certain way is wrong. Like the vegetarian in McDonald's, for someone to go onto that person's territory and tell them they must do what they believe is wrong shouldn't be.
Gay people are treated well under the law in the UK, unlike some countries where the religious are trying to (or have) take the rights of gays to even exist. Those who want to marry in church and aren't allowed should live with it. There are churches who will perform gay marriages ceremonies. To go to the CofE and insist they do something their conscience tells them is wrong is like (a milder form) tell a gay man or woman, yes you can marry, you have the right, but someone of the opposite gender. It's not natural, if you like.
Of course, McDonald's is a bad example. The example the CofE gave, of a gentleman's outfitters not being forced to sell ladies clothes is also not a perfect example. That is business, not personal. It isn't against McDonald's conscience or the gentleman's outfitter's conscience to go against what the business is about, but then today conscience is a state to be mocked and compromised with, overridden and gone round.
*Yes it would. Killing anything for any reason, apart from to end suffering and in (genuine) self defence is wrong, but that's another story.
Hot on it's heels comes a statement from the General Synod of the Church of England which declares that no Church of England church will automatically marry gay couples.
And, you know, through the hysteria on both sides, the General Synod have a point.
Just imagine if a vegetarian went to work at McDonald's and tried to force the restaurant to not handle bits of murdered animal? Not just that restaurant but all of them? It wouldn't be right, would it?*
It's not like a chemist refusing to serve a woman with the morning after pill. It's us going onto their territory and telling them they must do things that in all conscience, not to cause trouble and annoy people (the CofE is very liberal in many ways)they believe are wrong.
Peter Tatchell is a good man and a courageous man and unlike a lot of armchair protesters puts his money where his mouth is, so to speak (suffered mild brain damage from beatings he received by the local police in countries where he stood up for gay rights). But to say churches have to follow their conscience and then saying they are being stopped from doing so only if they don't do what we want is not right.
Some people believe a certain way is wrong. Like the vegetarian in McDonald's, for someone to go onto that person's territory and tell them they must do what they believe is wrong shouldn't be.
Gay people are treated well under the law in the UK, unlike some countries where the religious are trying to (or have) take the rights of gays to even exist. Those who want to marry in church and aren't allowed should live with it. There are churches who will perform gay marriages ceremonies. To go to the CofE and insist they do something their conscience tells them is wrong is like (a milder form) tell a gay man or woman, yes you can marry, you have the right, but someone of the opposite gender. It's not natural, if you like.
Of course, McDonald's is a bad example. The example the CofE gave, of a gentleman's outfitters not being forced to sell ladies clothes is also not a perfect example. That is business, not personal. It isn't against McDonald's conscience or the gentleman's outfitter's conscience to go against what the business is about, but then today conscience is a state to be mocked and compromised with, overridden and gone round.
*Yes it would. Killing anything for any reason, apart from to end suffering and in (genuine) self defence is wrong, but that's another story.
Friday, 11 November 2011
REMEMBERING ON A SPECIAL DAY
When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today
Known as the Kohima Epitaph, it is to be found in it's original state carved in the memorial to the second division in the British cemetery at Kohima, in India, in memory of the battle that won the war in Burma.
I think it is the best epitaph for war and perfect for this day.
We shall never forget them.
For your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today
Known as the Kohima Epitaph, it is to be found in it's original state carved in the memorial to the second division in the British cemetery at Kohima, in India, in memory of the battle that won the war in Burma.
I think it is the best epitaph for war and perfect for this day.
We shall never forget them.
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
DEADLY INTENTION
I've had a smart idea.
I was blowing my nose and some of the mucus went on my hand and I thought, just imagine if there was a virus that is air borne and 100% fatal and works by metabolising the oxygen in the body into C02 but there is one woman who for some reason is immune but a carrier, like typhoid Mary the Irish cook who spread the disease across New York in the eighteenth century and was locked away and died in isolation where she was forced for the safety of society.
She is absolutely brimming with the virus and whenever she breathes or blows her nose or touches anything with bare hands she spread it.
The scientists and doctors realise something is happening when she lives beyond the day and a half that people with the virus live.
"She doesn't seem to be dying, doctor."
Anyhow, they incubate her and experiment on her, and everyone she sees wears a bio suit and they have to take blood with great care and she doesn't need any treatment, she is kept in an isolated room where she is allowed books and television and is fed regularly but is not allowed outside.
There are groups of human rights people who say she isn't a guinea pig she is a human being, and scientists she has to be isolated and tested to save the human race.
I could involve politics and scientists and the Internet and all kinds of ideas.
And then one night, she escapes.
Remember, this 100% fatal virus that turns the oxygen in the blood to C02 has no effect on her and she can spread it by breathing in a room full of unprotected people.
While she is on the run, she wonders, should she kill herself, even going into shops and handling money can be fatal to those around her, but if she did she would be a biohazard, just lay there with the virus escaping and trying to find other hosts.
And I would call it;
DEADLY INTENTION
Actually, a bacteria would be worse (better?) because a bacteria can live on surfaces for hours if not days when a virus needs a host without a couple of hours or it dies.
I was blowing my nose and some of the mucus went on my hand and I thought, just imagine if there was a virus that is air borne and 100% fatal and works by metabolising the oxygen in the body into C02 but there is one woman who for some reason is immune but a carrier, like typhoid Mary the Irish cook who spread the disease across New York in the eighteenth century and was locked away and died in isolation where she was forced for the safety of society.
She is absolutely brimming with the virus and whenever she breathes or blows her nose or touches anything with bare hands she spread it.
The scientists and doctors realise something is happening when she lives beyond the day and a half that people with the virus live.
"She doesn't seem to be dying, doctor."
Anyhow, they incubate her and experiment on her, and everyone she sees wears a bio suit and they have to take blood with great care and she doesn't need any treatment, she is kept in an isolated room where she is allowed books and television and is fed regularly but is not allowed outside.
There are groups of human rights people who say she isn't a guinea pig she is a human being, and scientists she has to be isolated and tested to save the human race.
I could involve politics and scientists and the Internet and all kinds of ideas.
And then one night, she escapes.
Remember, this 100% fatal virus that turns the oxygen in the blood to C02 has no effect on her and she can spread it by breathing in a room full of unprotected people.
While she is on the run, she wonders, should she kill herself, even going into shops and handling money can be fatal to those around her, but if she did she would be a biohazard, just lay there with the virus escaping and trying to find other hosts.
And I would call it;
DEADLY INTENTION
Actually, a bacteria would be worse (better?) because a bacteria can live on surfaces for hours if not days when a virus needs a host without a couple of hours or it dies.
Sunday, 6 November 2011
AN OFFER
To all those who are 'pro-life' instead of 'pro-choice';*
Suppose a woman is walking home from church and a man grabs her and rapes her and then zips himself up and goes his merry way. She is traumatised and her husband gives her lots of love and support as does the rest of her family.
Suppose, when her rapist gets home he wakes up to what he has done and in his horror kills himself.
Then suppose the woman finds she has caught on. And she decides the best thing to do, her choice, is to have the foetus aborted. She feels nothing but disgust at the idea of getting rid of something that was put there against her will. She would rather die herself. Her husband and family are 100% behind her.
Suppose her husband and Mum escort her to the local clinic and as she gets out of the car and heads into the clinic you come running up to her begging her not to go through with it.
She shakes her head and gets back into the car and thinks about it for a minute and gets back out and says to you;
"OK, yes, I will exercise my choice and not get rid of the foetus if you are willing to come to a solicitor with me and provide the money and care needed to bring it to term and then after it's born take it and support it and see it's cared for till it attains it's majority. No 'go home and give us** a week to decide'. Decide now. If not, if you can't say 'yes' and put your money where your mouth is now, it's bye bye foetus."
What would you say, gentle pro-lifer?
*You know, I am pro-life. Sometimes, I astonish myself at how pro-life I am. My philosophy, which I live by, is that harming any living thing, even slugs and spiders is wrong unless my own life is in danger. But when it comes to a woman's body and what is growing therein I am pro-choice. That is choice. Not 'have an abortion or else' but, 'it's up to you and I support you no matter what'.
**I am, of course, using the word 'us' in the Lancashire way, which can mean 'me', as in; 'hey, give us a lend o' your pen'.
Suppose a woman is walking home from church and a man grabs her and rapes her and then zips himself up and goes his merry way. She is traumatised and her husband gives her lots of love and support as does the rest of her family.
Suppose, when her rapist gets home he wakes up to what he has done and in his horror kills himself.
Then suppose the woman finds she has caught on. And she decides the best thing to do, her choice, is to have the foetus aborted. She feels nothing but disgust at the idea of getting rid of something that was put there against her will. She would rather die herself. Her husband and family are 100% behind her.
Suppose her husband and Mum escort her to the local clinic and as she gets out of the car and heads into the clinic you come running up to her begging her not to go through with it.
She shakes her head and gets back into the car and thinks about it for a minute and gets back out and says to you;
"OK, yes, I will exercise my choice and not get rid of the foetus if you are willing to come to a solicitor with me and provide the money and care needed to bring it to term and then after it's born take it and support it and see it's cared for till it attains it's majority. No 'go home and give us** a week to decide'. Decide now. If not, if you can't say 'yes' and put your money where your mouth is now, it's bye bye foetus."
What would you say, gentle pro-lifer?
*You know, I am pro-life. Sometimes, I astonish myself at how pro-life I am. My philosophy, which I live by, is that harming any living thing, even slugs and spiders is wrong unless my own life is in danger. But when it comes to a woman's body and what is growing therein I am pro-choice. That is choice. Not 'have an abortion or else' but, 'it's up to you and I support you no matter what'.
**I am, of course, using the word 'us' in the Lancashire way, which can mean 'me', as in; 'hey, give us a lend o' your pen'.
Friday, 4 November 2011
PREGNANCY AND DISEASE
Another thing I've discovered about fundamentalist Christians; they hate the idea of someone just having fun without any unwanted consequences.
That's why all homosexuals deserve to get AIDS and all pregnant women should be forced to carry their foetus to term.
That's why all homosexuals deserve to get AIDS and all pregnant women should be forced to carry their foetus to term.
Saturday, 29 October 2011
Friday, 28 October 2011
TRUE, ANYWAY
I've been thinking about how many Bible literalists believe that evolution is a tale, made up, because it clashes with what the Bible says how Biblegod made every living thing in a set time as they were and none of them changed. They even have people with real science degrees and experience teaching this. It's called Creationism, or to use it's less political name Intelligent Design. There is even a small lobby of people who want to get it taught in schools alongside evolution to allow the children to make their own mind up.
Well, at one time the Church believed and taught that the earth was the centre of everything, was fixed, didn't move, and the sun and other planets went around it.
Today, the literalists have only got words, they can mock the theory of evolution or lobby against it, but when the Church taught that the earth was stationary they had real power to kill anyone who disagreed, who dared look through their telescopes and do the maths and work out the obvious truth, it moves, the earth moves, around the sun.
It took hundreds of years for the Church to admit, yes, we were in error, and those we burned or locked away or forced into house arrest to show we were right, well, they had it right.
That's how I know that, without the muscle, the Church, the Bible literalists, will carry on mocking and lobbying until one day they, maybe not in our generation, maybe in the generation of my little great nephew, or his children, will admit, we were wrong, evolution explains the diversity of life.
Because if the theists were wrong about the earth being the centre of everything, then they are wrong about Biblegod creating everything as they are, with no room for adaptation.
Actually, what an idea for a story! In an alternate universe where the Bible literalists hold the power and can legally condemn people to prison or even death if they teach the damnable heresy of change. And one scientist is forced to recant on his knees, he was wrong, animals never change, they were the same as God created them and at the same time he mutters under his breath;
"And yet they do change!"
Well, at one time the Church believed and taught that the earth was the centre of everything, was fixed, didn't move, and the sun and other planets went around it.
Today, the literalists have only got words, they can mock the theory of evolution or lobby against it, but when the Church taught that the earth was stationary they had real power to kill anyone who disagreed, who dared look through their telescopes and do the maths and work out the obvious truth, it moves, the earth moves, around the sun.
It took hundreds of years for the Church to admit, yes, we were in error, and those we burned or locked away or forced into house arrest to show we were right, well, they had it right.
That's how I know that, without the muscle, the Church, the Bible literalists, will carry on mocking and lobbying until one day they, maybe not in our generation, maybe in the generation of my little great nephew, or his children, will admit, we were wrong, evolution explains the diversity of life.
Because if the theists were wrong about the earth being the centre of everything, then they are wrong about Biblegod creating everything as they are, with no room for adaptation.
Actually, what an idea for a story! In an alternate universe where the Bible literalists hold the power and can legally condemn people to prison or even death if they teach the damnable heresy of change. And one scientist is forced to recant on his knees, he was wrong, animals never change, they were the same as God created them and at the same time he mutters under his breath;
"And yet they do change!"
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