According to a tribunal, climate change is a religious belief.

That’s good to know. Damn scientists and their evidence.

Speaking of which, A.N. Wilson got ripped a new one in the Daily Fail for preferring fairies over science. Sane Mail comments? Whoda think it?

Catholic Church braces itself for more damning revelations. The church actively colluded in protecting pedophile priests.

The Vatican’s obduracy claims another 70,000 innocent lives. And that’s just from dodgy abortions. Let’s not get started on HIV in Africa.

Still, it didn’t stop a million Spanish taking to the streets to encourage more unnecessary deaths. I really hope the Spanish government hold firm in its stance against these superstitious people.

And let’s not talk about the woman scraped to death by seashells. Oh wait, that was the 5th Century. Call off the hounds. Still the cock-hats are worried that it’ll stir up hate. Newsflash: raping children then covering up is doing fine in that department already.

They’re beginning to make me feel warm towards the clams who have been rather quiet of late.

Big whoop.

Massive kudos to Debbie Purdy for getting the issue this far. But can I say one thing:

GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY LIFE.

There. I’ll say it: I, being of sound mind, reserve the right to terminate my miserable existence on this rock however the fuck I want.

Two things:

1. The resistance to someone choosing to end their life has Christian roots and is therefore to be laughed at and ignored. I fear no sky fairy.
2. I’m sure we can come up with a system which prevents granny from being coerced into offing herself.

Easy peasy.

I’ll declare an interest here. I’ve had a good family friend with bad diabetes, having had a stroke walk in front of a train because he felt the alternative would have left his wife of 30 years in a legal quagmire.

This needs to stop.

They must just know that this is comment-bait from the god-botherers:

With regard to the existence or not of God, athiests exist as the point where arrogance and stupidity collide.

At least we don’t delegate our arrogance to a vengeful yet strangely absent at important moments, like say, war and famine, god.

Mmmm. Yes, thats good Atheism. Because it doesnt matter what you believe, just so long as you can be a pretentious jerk to others about it.

Aw, bless ‘em.

Can I? Please? Oh go on. Thanks. Here we go: TWAT!

Sadly, the unelected arch-arse of the end of beyond (I’m sure Wales is ver nice really), is off with the fairies. The days of deluded, self-selected arsewits having any influence over out daily lives are long gone. Shoo. Go away. And while we’re at it, please file quietly out of the House of Lords and hand over your lands an treasures to the National Trust and V&A. Get ye to the state of poverty your saviour espoused.

kthxbai

Update: The NSS has a pretty scathing response. ”Given he cannot stop the churches from emptying, where could be more fertile ground than pupils captive in school?” BWAH!

It’s almost like the barmaid reads the cockbucket.

There’s still a lot of incredulity and even outrage there. It looks like the powers are trying to hide behind the “it’s a constitutional requirement” defence, but chaps, your economic miracle might be in the shitter for now, but it’s really no excuse to make the entire country a laughing stock on the outer fringes of the civilised world.

The potential upfuck, which has been pointed out, is that if the padré warning people about not worshipping the virgin tree stump offends enough of the devout (-ly stupid) and they complain, he could get done for blasphemy.

Hilarity would most certainly ensue.

Anyhows, some more links for youe reading pleasure:

• The BBC has a Q&A in case you were in any doubt
• Padraig Reidy has a go in the Guardian
• More thoughtful pontiff-(geddit?!)-ication in the Reuters blogs

Well, no actually. They’ve just passed in to law a bill that it’s now a crime in Ireland to produce or say anything “that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion; and he or she intends, by the publication of the matter concerned, to cause such outrage.”

Mediawatchwatch goes further, explaining that “publicly making a claim about Jesus which is later proven to be untrue could land you in trouble”. Oh crap. So a bunch of fairy stories with no evidence are presumed to be true? How the fuck does that happen? Oh, wait. Alternative medicine. Never mind.

Update: Very nice commentary from Spiked.

It’s all OK though, we have the virgin Mary appearing in a tree stump. So that’s all right then. I just typed that as Vogon Mary. Oops. Am I now under threat of prosecution in Ireland?

Kinda puts abusive priests into perspective. Or is accusing pedophile priests itself now blasphemous? They are, after all, directly blessed descendents of Peter. Or something.

Luckily we have Spain. A devoutly catholic country, it has in recent years has legalised of gay marriage, introduced so-called “express divorce” laws and the dropped of plans to make religious classes part of the school curriculum. How cool is that?

Luckily, as always, we have Jesus and Mo to set us right. Never mind “God is great”, the Guinness is indeed great.

And that elusive old feller, God:

These cheered me up no end.

The comments on this piece are pretty good too.

As a bonus, feel free to enjoy Marcus Brigstock’s Abrahamic faiths rant.

Cocks.