Come All Ye Hypocrites

Apparently Christianity is under attack. No, wait - it's all religion that's under attack. Across Europe. From militant secularists. At least, that's according to resident Tory rent-a-quote Baroness Warsi. And our old 'friend' former Archbishop of Canterbury Carey. So it must be true. I always start getting worried when reactionaries from across the religious spectrum start singing from the same hymn sheet to try and claim that they are the oppressed. It really is utter bollocks. Islam and Christianity represent two of the largest organised religions in the world, both of them counting vast numbers of worshippers who they happily exploit on a daily basis for funding. Little better than glorified superstitions, they have the continued audacity to try and claim that they have some kind of moral superiority over the rest of us. I only wish that these mythical 'militant secularists' really did have them on the run.

This latest whingeing and hand wringing has been sparked by a legal ruling that it isn't legal for councils to start meetings with religious prayers. The result of a case brought by an agnostic former councillor. The ruling is, of course, quite right. Why should those of us with no faith be forced to participate in what, to us, is an offensive farrago if we want to be local elected representatives? Especially as there is no legal basis for it. It is a clear infringement of our right not to believe. Which is what really offends me about the likes of Warsi and Carey - they are so busy shouting about their right to worship, that they seem to forget that non-believers have exactly the same right not to worship. That, I'm afraid my religious friends, is the flipside of the fundamental right you have to pursue your faith - that people have exactly the same fundamental right to have no faith and to not be oppressed and brainwashed by you religious bastards. But whereas most of us who have no faith are prepared to defend your right to worship, you hypocritical bastards most certainly aren't prepared to fight for our right not to believe, let alone respect it.