Jim Al-Khalili new President of British Humanist Society

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p9g0g

He compares religion to a crutch and God to Santa.

So do I, but I argue for a theocracy because the Little People need their crutches and their Santa.

It is the duty of the Big People - the ones who know what a principle is and who want to do good for the sake of wanting to be good - to pretend that God exists for the sake of the Little People, who do not know what a principle is and whose eyes close and whose mouths open when you try to explain it to them, who will only be good and tell the truth if there is a reward in the hereafter and refrain from evil and telling lies if there is a punishment in the hereafter.

In all probability neither did the Prophets of God really believe in God.  The Prophets of God used God the way parents now use Santa to encourage their children to better behaviour.

That is the long and short of it really, and this is what I propose we do - establish a theocracy along the lines of Josephus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theocracy#Etymology

Josephus understood theocracy as a fourth form of government in which only God and his law is sovereign.

I really have no problem with the legal and political system being infused with Koranic principles.

For those who throw their hands up in horror, would they kindly tell me which laws they fear?

They should ignore all the stories and statements, and only concentrate on what the Koran commands that we must do and refrain from doing.  






HELP ME ANNOY THE FEMALE-DOMINATED PC BBC

Would you like to nominate Claire Khaw for the iPM New Year Honour for being the most entertainingly philosophical, political and theological Woman of the Year?  Go on, go on, go on!

They won't let me win, but you will succeed in annoying them if the nominations keep coming in.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0089nbb/features/new-year-honour

Andrew Copson gay spokesman for BHA hates all the Abrahamic faiths because he sees them as "homophobic"

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/09/05/christian-discrimination-lord-carey-human-rights_n_1857460.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

He was also singly-parented and has blocked me from following him on Twitter.   I would say that he is morally compromised, wouldn't you?  

Why the hell are we letting the likes of him persecute heterosexual people?  

Because Cunt Cameron is a coward and a hypocrite and most certainly not a Conservative.  

In fact, the Conservative Party ceased promoting Conservative principles in 2002 when Theresa May said the Tories should no longer be seen as the nasty party.

Politicians ought to be the sewage engineers of stupid and destructive ideas, even if this means being a bit of wet blanket about things and anticipating problems, rather than going along with every damn fool stupid liberal idea like someone in arrested adolescence.  

Sadly, the only remnants of Conservatism are only fitfully breathing in UKIP who only behave like a frightened old woman in the early stages of dementia, fleeing from controversy and me ...

I will just have to reassure them and smooth their ruffled feathers when I meet them in Birmingham at their conference.