No Respect

Fraudster. A Doctor of Pretence, where they pretend to know things that they cannot possibly know.

My favorite was the Hitchens quote about that vulgar “Reverend” Jerry Falwell whose son is regularly dry-humping President Trump’s leg.

The quote is:

If you gave Jerry Falwell an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by Reg the Fronkey Farmer.

When I was 14 I once called a Christian Brother a “fu**ing dirty sheep shagger” after he hit me in a case of mistaken identity but refused to apologize to me. I refused to apologize for my language and got suspended for a few days from school. They let me back early to do the summer exams and I got 8 A’s, and scored 98% in the religion exam, the highest in the class. That really annoyed him. Turned out I was lucky as 10 years later he was arrested for child sexual abuse and at 14 I would have been about 6 or 8 years too old for him. About 2 years later a teacher asked me about it and I said “ok, I apologize for denigrating sheep”.

Being that we are pattern driven we need titles to attribute to particular patterns in order to identify, compartmentalize, and also simply to communicate.  It’s important, in my opinion, that we as a secular group be able to have titles that separate us from them.  Being that we are the minority in the world, our titles will be dictated to us by religious groups: not good. Of course I agree that we be very careful in not turning our views into a “religious experience”, however it is undeniable that certain religious groups do provide something that I think we are lacking in: creating a sense of community and purpose whether it be individually or collectively.  Just a thought..

It’s in our language, “Would you bed Madonna?”  “Oh god no!”  We might swear and say, “Fucking hell!”  Etc, etc, etc.  Many Western societies were built by Christians.  As it is today, we of the atheist persuasion are in the minority and so we are likely to see children brought up in this verbal environment, thus perpetuating this sort of thing.  But you are right David, priests don’t deserve to be called ‘father’ or anything like that, a simple first name and last name will do.  Resist your programming!