Religion!

When you read a story like the Gillian Gibbons one, you cannot help but think the world has gone mad. It's both hilariously funny and monumentally depressing at the same time. Such insanity and madness I can't think of a better example than perhaps when the people of Hartlepool hanged a monkey because they feared it was a french spy.

I don't know what is worse the sheer fundamentalist fervour of people in Sudan or the undercurrent of racism and cultural superiority found in many comments on this issue. The BBC website comments on it from all sides had me wanting a nuclear holocaust. That wasn't to say I didn't find some insightful and intelligent comments on it but they were far outnumbered by the hordes of madness, piousness, bigotry, and crass stupidity etc.

All religions are a fucking plague on this earth, I accept there are very many decent christians, muslims, hindus, sikhs, jews, and people of all religions really that are basically good people but the whole concept is a cancer of the mind and soul. It's about time people took a look around the world and treated fellow humans with just basic respect that we are all equal under any or no god and that we have the same right to life and right to hold different ideas. And if you want or can't help but believe in some deity fine but for fuck sake keep it to yourself and don't murder, maim or inprison anyone in the name of them please.

Lets face it we are destroying the world we life on and we'll tear each other apart whilst doing so as the planets resources diminish and when we join the dinosaur as an extinct species we'll have well earned it and good luck to any poor bastard of a specis that survives to inherit the earth. Maybe the next sentient species can do a better job.