Browsing around the internet this morning, a link provided by a discussion forum I frequent led me to a YouTube submission from a chap in the US named James who calls himself a Street Preacher, carrying a large rod and bible, and dressed in an outfit that could of been designed in Berlin around 1933, (all that was missing was the armband) he extolled his manifesto for returning the world to an idyll of which he would be satisfied. In just under ten minutes this purported man of the cloth demonised practically the entire world from Catholics to Gays to TV executives to (of all things) Californians! Despite myself I have a great respect for people of faith, whatever that faith may be but when I am faced with such hate mongering masquerading as being representative of the word of so many good people's god my cold bloodedness begins to simmer warm enough to boil a curate's egg, I therefore commented on the piece I had just sullied myself with, as one may with regards to YouTube submissions (and quite innocuously I may add) and received a lovely series of emails from James himself describing the many tortures of hell I would be soon enjoying as a result of my "sodomite loving filthy ways"
I have written back enclosing a scanned copy of "The Sermon On The Mount" (not as strange a thing for an Atheist to have to hand as may first be thought) as this chap's bible seems to have lost that particular chapter and verse.
If, as the Duc de Richleau (played so splendidly by Christopher Lee) maintains, "Evil is very real" then it's face is definitely not that of horned goat sitting atop a Sabbatical throne, it's features are much more mediocre than that, and it's pervasive rhetoric is not wrapped up in the language of archaic tongues.
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The Sermon on the Mount was a good choice for the self-righteous preacher.
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