I have spent the last 5 months deep in the bible belt.
More churches than people, every school it seems is named after some saint or other, every person it seems is a good, god fearing, clean living, church going, charity act performing, lamb of god and do you know what?

I would fucking love to be one of them.

The sense of community among these people is amazing. The way they act to each other, the respect, the kindness the charity. I have been welcomed into the homes of people who barely know me where I have been fed, watered and treated like a member of the family.

Yet I can never be one of them, because everything they believe is based on a massive lie, a big heap of bollocks spouted thousands of years ago, because people are too scared of the idea that their lives are nothing but an act of random chance, so cling to the hope of a higher purpose.

If it was just that, a blind faith, I could do it, I could be one of them, but its not, it is so much more. Less than 100 years ago it was black people who were denied basic rights, then it was (and still is) women, now its gays all in the name of god. People deny themselves the joys of sex, the most primal of urges and people deny it to themselves because they think a bloke on a cloud gets upset. Intelligent people, who preach love and peace still back the war on terror because the bible says 'an eye for an eye'.

Which brings me to my point.

Hell cant be that bad, after all it will be full of cool and interesting people:

Princess Di: Who shagged many people outside of gods holy state of matrimony, including a dirty non god-fearing Arab or two.

Hitler: Not cool, but but you better believe he would be interesting.

Gandhi: Well if we are talking about a Christian heaven & hell, he wont be there will he?

Freddy Mercury: for being a bummer.

Winston Churchill: Severe gluttony.

Etc etc. More to the point it will be full of people like me who would probably die of shock all over again if he found there is a heaven and hell. We could talk about how stupid and cynical we all were.
(Bam Bam McPenis will change all this when he is fuhrer., Fri 12 Dec 2008, 2:17, 3 replies)

Actually...
...you can be like those people, but without the hipocracy and lies. That, my friend, would make you superior to them, and thus to their god.

The religious do not have a copyright on morality or ethics.
(EffinDoubt is breaking glass on, Fri 12 Dec 2008, 9:58, closed)

You are right
I can be as moral and wonderful as I like, but the community as a whole just isn't. They (god batterers) don't have copyright, but they sure as hell are the majority shareholders.
(Bam Bam McPenis will change all this when he is fuhrer., Fri 12 Dec 2008, 17:43, closed)

Hitler
Just don't get him started on his artwork... gah.

Princess Di would be an interesting one. "So, given your charity work and relations with the grandson of the current head of the Church of England, did you ever see the whole 'Hell' thing ahead of you? I guess not, I mean it'd have been much more subtle than a brick wall but you didn't see that coming either, did you?"
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 12 Dec 2008, 16:11, closed)