Monday, September 13, 2010

Lawyer smokes both Bible and Koran

Time for one more post after all.

A university lawyer in Brisbane has decided to contribute to the burn-a-Koran craze sweeping approximately 50 total idiots in all of North America.

...by smoking a marijuana joint rolled from both the Koran AND the Bible.

He posted himself doing this online. I haven't seen the video and - since it can't be much to look at - I'm not putting it here. You can find it if you go looking.

He expects to be fired but the police will not be charging him with anything.
I reckon he actually stands a good chance of keeping his job. I reckon he SHOULD keep his job.

I have a split attitude to religion.... I personally think there is probably no God period, definitely no God as is imagined by any of the Abrahamic faiths. I think religion is enormously destructive in the public domain. I want religion to have nothing whatsoever to do with the law, politics or education, but I'm mindful of the vulnerabilities of people who - against my preference - do believe in it.

Do I think there is absolutely any value on someone getting high on the Koran or the Bible...?
No.
Not in any sense at all, if you get my meaning...

I think religion is a load of shit. But I don't say that to timid grannies coming out of Sunday prayer.

I'll make another observation about this guy, however: He wasn't a Joe Average just doing it as a lark. He is an organisational member for the Brisbane Atheists, meaning... This is HIS religious expression. His way of saying how he wants the world to be.
And that's where I get edgy: I don't want an atheist crusade because nothing good will come of that.
I want an end to religiously motivated political acts of ANY stripe whatsoever.

3 comments:

  1. I take it you won't be donating to my new mosque next to Long Beach Community College then Magpie?

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  2. There's gotta be a Geico Insurance commercial somewhere in my response :-)

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  3. Whell, Magpie, at least we've found an answer for the next time someone asks us "what are YOU smoking, buster?"

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