Being Gay is Disgusting
Praise for Being Gay is Disgusting
My friends always told me that I thought I was funny, and I'm gratified and actually quite humbled that so many members of the press seem to agree!
The entire thing is done in a fantastically witty and frank manner reminiscent of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.” -- The Bilerico Project
Think of it as a funnier, less hectoring counterpart to The God Delusion." -- Sydney Star Observer
More than the Cliff notes to a scared scripture, Falzon’s humorous take on the Bible does a great job of calling real attention to what has lead to countless social divides. Piety and moral soap-boxing from the pages of the Bible might actually serve the public at large if those referencing it actually studied the fucking thing." -- Skinnie Entertainment Magazine
The Ten Commandments you Never Knew“Of course I know the Ten Commandments,” I hear you muttering. “Worship only God, no idols, observe the Sabbath, don’t kill, steal, lie, cheat on your spouse...” Yeah, that’s not them. It’s a common mistake, and before I did my homework, I, too, was blissfully unaware that the Ten Commandments we were taught as good, God-fearing Christian kids are actually not the rules that were called the Ten Commandments in the Bible! But a little background first. There are 95 uses of the word “commandment” in the five books of Moses. Well, that’s in the King James, anyway. In the TNIV (“Today’s New International Version”), this number drops to just 10. The others have been changed to “commands” in any place that doesn’t refer to the “Ten.” Significantly, Yahweh talks about keeping commandments three times before the Ten make their appearance in Exod 20. See Exod 15:26, 16:28 and, yes, even way back in Gen 26:5, where Abraham “kept my commandments, statutes and laws.” The TNIV changed this to “commands, decrees and instructions.” In a Hebrew Torah, it’s the same word in all locations. It’s easy to see that in some bibles, the translators don’t want any hint that “commandments” or “laws” existed prior to the Mt Sinai event. Stoning in 21st-Century USAWell, it's official. The USA has become so religious that civil stoning has been reintroduced, just like in the Middle-East. According to a story yesterday in the Philadelphia Inquirer, a 28-year-old man stoned his 70-year-old church-buddy for having made sexual advances towards him. He told the police that he stoned the old man because that's what the Bible says the punishment should be. The most disturbing thing about this is that the bible is unequivocally on the side of the killer. There are no two ways about it. Lev 20 is specific with the act, the punishment and the justification. It is the ever-marching, ever-preaching religious groups that give credibility and confidence to those who would carry out such biblical punishments and, good news for Americans, most crimes in the bible are punishable by death. I wonder how far away we are from seeing a parent kill a child merely for being disobedient, citing justification in Deut 21. Oh, but hang on, the USA has already seen real-world filicide in the footsteps of biblical Abraham (Gen 22). In November last year, Jeannine Brandt stabbed her sleeping son because God told her to. |
Biblical InerrancyLet's get one thing absolutely clear: The Bible is totally the shit. And even though every sub-sect of every brand of religion disagrees on the exact meaning of Inerrancy, I defy you to find one bit that's not 100% historically accurate. This video contains alleged contradictions that don't actually exist. Such is the pure Truth that these contradictions do not exist, that I urge you not to check for yourself. There's no point, because the contradictions are not present in the places where the author states that they are. It makes no sense to me, nor to anyone who has common sense, which is to say, anyone who agrees with me, why one would go out of one's way to piss God off like this. Firstly, it's just mean. If the Bible is anything to go by, Yahweh gets really upset when people don't follow Him, or don't like Him. It's a rock. Get over it.
H.L. Mencken once said, "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." With this in mind, let's look at the beliefs of the Anangu people, the present "owners" of that big-arse rock. "Uluru and Kata Tjuta provide physical evidence of feats performed during the creation period. [The indiginous tribe] Anangu are the direct descendants of these [ancestral] beings and are responsible for the protection and appropriate management of these ancestral lands," or so says a government Web site. This story, while fascinating, has as much chance of being true as the biblical story of six-day Creation (Gen 1) or the quranic story of humans being made from a blood clot (Sura 96). |
Amongst renewed calls to close the climb of Uluru, citing, primarily, cultural sensitivies and safety concerns, I think it's worthwhile to just take a look at what we all seem to think are valid beliefs worthy of public respect and debate.