Godless And Free (19 page)

56.
Children of a Stupid God

May 26, 2009

Hello everyone. I’ve been away for a while, but I’m glad to be back. Among other things recently I’ve been spending quite a lot of time out in the open air growing vegetables, enjoying the spring weather, and not believing in God, but not necessarily in that order.

Some people will look at the variety and abundance of nature and see proof of God’s existence. Well, I’ve had a good look recently, and I’ve seen plenty of proof of nature’s variety and abundance, but I haven’t seen God anywhere. And that doesn’t really surprise me, because I don’t think that the violent maniac of the Old Testament would be capable of creating a single radish, let alone an entire world.

For one thing, a god who’s afraid of new ideas is certainly no creator. But also his eagerness to be worshipped tells us that he’s an extremely shallow individual (which is a little worrying, as we’re supposed to be created in his image) and his quickness to violence shows that he’s also profoundly stupid. Again, uncomfortably close to home.

Indeed, this god is so limited in scope and so aggressively unsubtle both in word and deed that you could be forgiven for mistaking him for some kind of primitive desert-dwelling tribal human being, and concluding, as I have, that we are not his children at all, but in fact he’s our child, and he’s a very very bad boy.

Even if I’m wrong about this (and I might be – I’m certainly not infallible, unlike certain other people we could mention) and if God really did create the world, then all I can say is well done God, round of applause for God.

But if he expects to be worshipped on the back of it, then I’m afraid he can go straight to hell, which is where I suspect he originated, if such a place exists, because the god of the Old Testament reads as if he’s auditioning for the role of Satan. It would be hard to imagine a more malevolent entity without the aid of a pair of comedy horns and a pitchfork.

Just look at his track record. He comes out of the desert a few thousand years ago killing and smiting with righteous abandon, spawns three religions that absolutely loathe each other, supplies us with scriptures that set us at each other’s throats like dogs over trifles, dividing us into us and them, into believers and infidels, ensuring that every one of us will be born with millions of instant enemies.

Thanks to this monster we live in a world divided against itself, where every one of us is an infidel to somebody – including you, no matter what you believe, even if it’s nothing, you can be guaranteed that somebody somewhere hates your guts because of it. Welcome to planet earth, the centre of the universe. Enjoy your stay. (Although, apparently, not enjoying it will get you into heaven that little bit quicker.)

Now given this humiliating and, let’s be frank, embarrassing situation that we find ourselves in, where, thanks to this ludicrous god, the whole world seems to be in an ever decreasing orbit around the black hole of the Middle East, from which not even light can escape (oh, you’ve noticed that as well?) maybe civilisation, therefore, is a little too much for us to hope for at this early stage in our development. But wouldn’t it be nice if we could at least find some way to resolve the artificial differences that this god has imposed on us without resorting to violence?

I’m sorry, I didn’t mean that. I take it back. I don’t know what came over me. I was just being silly. I do apologise. Of course violence is the only answer. After all, it’s the language of God – that’ll be our god, the stupid one, the god of death. “Believe in me or burn in hell. Worship me or I’ll send a plague. Little pigs little pigs let me come in or I’ll burn your cities to the ground.”

And, if it’s God’s language, and if we’re created in his image (which presumably means he’s also a gullible superstitious fool, but that’s another subject), well then it’s bound to be our language as well.

And in truth it’s just about the only language we know how to speak to each other when push comes to shove, because everybody knows that the threat of violence is behind all diplomacy, no matter how warm the handshake or how charming the smile. In fact, without it we’d barely be able to relate to each other for the perfectly understandable reason that we’re too primitive and stupid. (Obviously, I don’t claim to speak for everyone, just the people on this particular planet.)

How stupid are we? Well, look at us, we’re a naturally curious race of beings. If we weren’t we wouldn’t be here. The quest for knowledge is what has driven us forward from day one. Yet we subscribe in our millions to these anaerobic belief systems that purposely limit knowledge, discourage curiosity and sanctify ignorance. Why do we do this to ourselves? What are we afraid of? Is it being alone in a cold and empty universe, is that it?

So we’d rather be subject to a cruel and stupid fascist god than to no god at all, and to cringe under the phoney threat of eternal damnation like a bunch of cowardly muppets.

We’d rather drag ourselves through history, inch by tortuous bloody inch, because we’ve got this dead weight attached to us, this useless lump of fossilised thought we call religion, this psychological ball and chain that we just can’t bring ourselves to cut loose, because this god of ours, he may be stupid, he may be as dumb as a sack of walnut shells, but he can only reflect the intelligence that created him, the poor sod.

It’s two thousand years now since Jesus lived, if he lived. Let’s assume he did just to annoy a few atheists, but don’t tell anybody I said that or I’ll be in all kinds of trouble.

And Jesus may have been a good guy in many ways, but he was no saint.

He had his dark side. It’s wasn’t all loaves and fishes and lilies of the field, was it? He’s the one who came up with the idea of eternal damnation in the first place, not God, surprisingly.

No, there’s nothing in the Old Testament about anybody simmering in the lake of fire – that was Jesus’ idea. Maybe God was just so busy killing and maiming people there and then that it completely slipped his mind, and you could certainly understand that, because he was very busy after all. But you have to wonder why Jesus would take up the slack when he seemed to be doing so nicely with his miracles and his parables and his message of sweetness and light. Why would he feel the need to introduce coercion and threats?

Well, because clearly Jesus was no fool, and he quicklyealised that he was talking to stupid ignorant barbarians who, despite his enlightening life-giving message, still needed to be threatened with crude violence to make them behave in a civilised way, and two thousand years later nothing has changed.

Who wouldn’t be embarrassed? I’m more than embarrassed, if you want the truth. I’m ashamed. I feel like apologising to the universe for wasting its time. (Must be the Catholic in me coming out now.)

We think we’re so advanced, don’t we, especially now that science is cutting a dash through eleven dimensions, doing religion’s job for it in fact, attempting to illuminate the mystery of life rather than suppress it, but down here on the ground it might as well not be happening. Things are just the same as ever; people still worshipping dumb idols, still fearing evil spirits, still cowering under the angry heavens like a bunch of frightened cavemen.

The only mystery to me is how we can look at ourselves in the mirror without laughing.

Peace, and happy days.

57.
Ban the Burka

June 28, 2009

Well, this week there’s been quite a lot talk about the burka, or the niqab, or whatever you want to call it. I’m talking about the neurotic need that some women have to walk around everywhere in disguise.

Ever since the French president said it was unwelcome in France, there’s been a debate going on here in Britain about whether this ugly mobile tarpaulin should be banned. Although, I have to say that if we were a more honest society, and therefore a more healthy society, there would be no need to ban this ridiculous outfit, because it would already have been ridiculed out of existence.

Most Muslims know full well that the burka has nothing at all to do with their religion. There’s nothing in the Koran about women dressing up like Darth Vadar. This is a manifestation of a primitive culture and a primitive mindset that deserves about as much respect and consideration as the beliefs of headhunters.

And as for modesty, please, don’t make me laugh. Modest people don’t draw attention to themselves by dressing up in a mobile tent just to rub it in the face of a culture they despise, but for some reason insist on living in.

The burka will never be welcome here in Europe, or in the western world generally. It will always cause trouble, and that, I suspect, is why it’s being worn.

And there are plenty of good reasons to ban this horrible garment, but for me the best reason is the fact that it would offend Islamists, which I think is always a good idea. If a small group of hysterical bearded fanatics are squealing about Islamophobia, well then you know that somebody is doing something right.

Personally, I would ban it on public transport and in public buildings, and anywhere else that other people are expected to show their face as a matter of course. I also think that shops and banks should be allowed to refuse entry to anybody in disguise. And I think that those women who think it’s a good idea to walk around in one of these ridiculous outfits should seriously consider seeing a doctor, not only for themselves, but for their babies, some of whom have been born with rickets because their mothers suffer from chronic vitamin D deficiency through lack of sunlight.

Now personally I’ve been criticised quite heavily in the past for my attitude to this dehumanising shroud, this cloak of death, this mantle of misery. People have said to me: “You say women should be free to live how they want to and to dress how they like, and yet you have ridiculed those women who choose to cover their face of their own free will. And this makes you a hypocrite, and a racist, and an Islamophobe, and a Jew, and a homosexual, and a filthy kuffar who’ll burn in hell, inshallah.” Or words to that effect.

Well, quite apart from the obvious security threat posed by the burka, which we don’t like to talk about too much out of respect for their religion, even though their religion is our biggest security threat (sorry to all you peaceful Muslims, but we all know that is the unfortunate truth, at least right now)…

But quite apart from that whole issue, the burka is more than just an item of clothing, isn’t it? It’s a political statement of very determined separation (so much for community cohesion) and it’s also a powerful symbol of the status of women in the Muslim world, some of whom, even in this country, have no choice as to whether they are encased in these sartorial prisons.

And that’s why I believe that those women who deliberately try to legitimise this sinister garment in the free world to make some kind of cockeyed statement are actively condoning and encouraging the oppression of other women on this planet, for which I think they ought to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. I think what they’re doing is deeply immoral, I think they’re traitors to their gender, and as a symbol of their religious or cultural identity they might as well be wearing a yellow star.

I also find it baffling as to why it is that the western feminist voice, usually so assertive and confident, is so muted when it comes to women in Islam. That couldn’t have anything to do with cultural relativism looking attractively ethnic once you were all safely home and dry, could it girls? Or maybe it just wasn’t a very worthwhile cause after all. I don’t know, what do you think? I would like to hear, because the silence so far from feminists has been deafening and shameful. Everybody thinks so. Everybody’s wondering where the hell are all the feminists. People even write to me and ask me: “Where are the feminists?” As if I’m supposed to know. I’m just as puzzled as everybody else.

But let me tell you what those shy retiring feminists could and should be saying if they were anywhere to be found, and that is that any western woman who makes allowances for, or who accommodates, the misogyny of Islam in her life is a fool to herself and a traitor to her daughters who will have to live with the consequences in a society where they feel less valued, less safe, and have fewer rights than they do now.

And personally I don’t want to be a party to anything like that, and that’s why I think that the issue of women’s rights should be a line in the sand that Islam is not allowed to cross at any price. The emancipation of women in Islam is one of the most important political issues on this planet because it’s the only thing that’s likely to civilise this crackpot religion of peace. And I think that western governments who claim to stad for freedom and justice should be pursuing it vigorously and without compromise, regardless of anybody’s feelings or cultural sensitivities, especially within their own borders. And that means no sharia, and no burka.

But let’s not be too intolerant. That’s the worst thing you can be as a modern European, and I’m nothing if not a modern European. So I wouldn’t want to ban the burka for absolutely everyone. Not at all. In fact I think it should be compulsory for all Islamist men, especially during the hot weather, and maybe then we’d find out just how popular this thing really is.

Peace, especially to all the silent feminists. You know who you are, even if nobody else does.

58.
Apologists for Evil

July 23, 2009

It’s often said, isn’t it, that the liberal left is conspicuously silent when it comes to radical Islam, but in my experience that’s not entirely true. Many of them are very quick to label anyone who advocates freedom over theocracy as a racist and an Islamophobe.

Indeed, after my last video, where I suggested that we should ban the misogynistic and fascist device known as the burka, I got quite a lot of very angry e-mails from members of the multicultural appeasement lobby; the kind of people who would put their own mothers and daughters in burkas to avoid being called intolerant, and who occupy such high moral ground that you can hardly see them up there through the clouds of self-righteousness.

I’m talking about members of the enlightened liberal intelligentsia that consistently shows itself to be anything but enlightened, or liberal, or intelligent, mainly because it’s motivated more by a deep irrational hatred of America than by any real notion of justice or respect, and whose politically correct double standards and cringeworthy cowardice in the face of aggressive Islamism has led many liberal-minded people to actively despise the word “liberal”.

You people have certainly reminded me, as if I needed reminding, why my political views have changed in recent years. You see, foolishly perhaps, I used to take freedom for granted, but now, thanks to ultra tolerant self-hating multicultural lemmings like you, I don’t.

Politically I always used to be on the liberal left, because I used to believe in social justice, tolerance, respect – you know, the good things in life. I still believe in those things, which is why I’m no longer on the liberal left, because I believe that, in aligning itself, as it has, so completely with the fascism of Islam, and in colluding with an ideology that wants to victimise minorities and kill people for their lifestyle, the liberal left has lost its way, lost its moral authority, and become a threat to our freedom. The medicine has become the disease. And I don’t want to be contaminated, so where does that leave me now politically? On the right? No, because that’s the last place I want to be. So I suppose it leaves me somewhere in the middle, not knowing which way to turn because my natural constituency has been poisoned by people like you, and I can’t tell you how much I resent that. Actually, I probably could, but it might take a while.

Some of you even stooped so low as to try and associate me with an organisation called the BNP, or the British National Party, when everybody who has seen my videos knows full well that my argument is with religion and has got nothing at all to do with race.

I believe the BNP has a racial agenda, and is therefore a racist party, so I would rather vote for nobody at all. In fact I’d rather drive a garden fork through my own foot than vote for the BNP.

But this video is not about them. It’s not about right wing fascists. It’s about the left wing kind. And I think the word “racist” deserves a public apology for the way it’s been hijacked and abused by you multicultural pimps, along with another public apology for all the victims of genuine racism – people who have actually suffered because of the colour of their skin or where they happen to come from, and who can see that word being devalued every time one of you liars uses it to defend a religion, and a fascist religion at that.

Race is irrelevant. We’re all one race. That’s obvious to anyone with half a brain – we’re all part of the same organism. But we’re not all one religion, are we? And we’re not all one culture. And the truth is, and this is the truth whether you clowns want to hear it or not, that many people in the West feel that we are being invaded (yes, that’s the word – invaded) by a religion and a culture whose values we totally reject. Not because we’re racists, but because the values themselves are degrading and offensive.

The whole point of female concealment in Islamic society is that men are not expected to take responsibility for their sexual urges, so any woman who is not covered up from head to toe is asking to be raped.

The burka therefore legitimises rape. It apologises for rape. It justifies rape. Are you listening, feminists? And this makes it, in my opinion, as offensive a public statement as a Ku Klux Klan uniform or a Nazi swastika, and I think it should be treated with exactly the same revulsion and contempt.

And as for the free choice argument that you like to defend so disingenuously, well, walking around naked is a free choice, wearing a ski mask into a bank is a free choice, but in neither case would you get away with it for very long.

This so-called choice to wear the burka is exercised more here in the West than it is in Muslim countries because here it’s being used quite deliberately as a weapon of cultural jihad, in a naked attempt (if you’ll pardon the expression) to undermine the most fundamental of our values, that every human being is born equal.

In Islam, as you may have noticed, every human being is not born equal, not by a long way, and this presents us with a problem in the liberal West, the solution to which is not that we should show how reasonable and tolerant we are by compromising our principles, effectively turning them inside out so as not to cause offence. No, the solution is for Muslim men to start treating women as equals and not as possessions. That’s the only solution, it’s not negotiable, and saying so doesn’t make anybody a racist. Sorry.

As for Islamophobia, just because somebody offends you with their opinion it doesn’t give you the right to saddle them with a clinical condition.

There is no such thing as Islamophobia. It simply doesn’t exist. And most people now realise just what a cynical manpulative lie that word really is. Suspicion of, or dislike of, Islam is not a phobia. It’s an honest, healthy reaction to the evidence that has been provided.

But although Islamophobia doesn’t exist, I’ll tell you what does exist in great abundance, and that’s Islamonausea, in people who are absolutely sick of Islam and its multicultural apologists.

And let’s not forget Islamophobianausea. This is nausea brought on by constantly hearing the word Islamophobia. In fact, I’ve got to stop saying Islamophobia now because I’m already beginning to feel queasy.

These words are being used quite shamelessly to try and engineer an artificial sense of guilt in western society, to redefine our values as prejudices, and to silence legitimate opinion and the free exchange of ideas that have made us what we are and given us our strength. And that’s why this is damaging our society in a fundamental way, and it has got to stop.

All over the western world we’ve become so intimidated into watching every word and thought in case it might offend somebody’s precious faith, it’s as if the free world has forgotten to inhale.

What happened to our birthright?

We need to take a deep breath. We need to get the oxygen of freedom flowing through our veins again, and through our brains again, and get things back in perspective.

We have nothing to apologise for, and nothing to feel guilty about. And our way of life, despite its many faults (of which we’re all very well aware, thank you) is still far superior to anything Islam has to offer, or will ever have to offer, especially if you’re female or Jewish or homosexual, or even just a common or garden blasphemer like me.

That is the truth, and most people in the western world realise it’s the truth, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with them saying so as loudly and as often as they like.

And you leftie liberal multicultural appeasement monkeys, you’re not going to like it, and you’re certainly not going to want to speak out for the values that give you the freedom to be the useful idiots you are, but if you could at least find it in your miserable frightened little hearts not to slander those of us who do as racists, we’d all be very grateful.

Peace.